Unions Follow

Annette Mackin argues the Tories’ Carr Review of anti-trade union laws shows bosses will only go further on the offensive if we don’t put up a fight

After a series of strikes and up to 100,000 marching in London, trade unionists talk to Socialist Worker about the way ahead in the battle against the Tories

Working class people filled the streets of London last Saturday in a mass show of opposition to Tory austerity.

The fight for better pay at Defence Support Group (DSG) began in earnest this week.

This autumn could see mass strikes against the Tories. But the last such fightback fell apart in 2011. Karen Reissmann looks at why—and how we can stop it happening again

Alexis Wearmouth is a UCU union rep for fractional teaching staff—employed on a fraction of a full contract. Activists accuse bosses of intervening to stop Alexis being re-hired there next year. But after the protest he has been shortlisted for interview.

NUT union members in Haringey, north London, have been shocked by the suspension of their branch chair Julie Davies.

Senior directors at construction firms Balfour Beatty, Laing O’Rourke and Vinci were up in front of a committee of MPs last week. 

The rows in the Labour Party keep coming. The latest criticism came from Labour’s policy chief Jon Cruddas this week.

Some 90 supporters of RMT union rep Mark Harding gathered outside his trial at the City of London magistrates’ court on Friday of last week.

More than 2,000 fast food workers and their supporters joined a mass sit-in outside a McDonald’s corporate shareholders event in the US city of Chicago on Wednesday 21 May.

Bosses have always hated unions. Raymie Kiernan looks at new plans to restrict workers’ ability to organise against attacks by their employers