Unions Follow

Electricians are fighting a raw form of class struggle. On one side stand multinational corporations determined to maximise profits—on the other rank and file workers organising to defend their livelihoods.

Workers go where the job is. Many leave family behind to live in digs for weeks or months. Bosses even find ways to use this travelling to discipline workers.

Bosses profits... Balfour Beatty Engineering Services £50,500,000

In 1972 over 300,000 building workers struck across Britain over pay and contracts.

The call from last week’s TUC congress to coordinate strikes across public sector unions on 30 November—including Unison, Unite and the GMB—is of huge significance.

Wednesday 30 November will see millions of workers strike against the government’s attack on pensions.

Britain’s biggest public sector union, Unison, will ballot all of its 1.1 million public sector workers for strikes.

We face a historic battle. The Tories are waging war on working class people—but this week millions more people joined the fight to stop them.

The TUC committed itself to resisting attempts to attack trade union rights.

The TUC denounced David Cameron’s attacks on multiculturalism.

Unions unanimously voted for journalists to be covered by a legally binding "conscience clause", following the phone hacking scandal at the News of the World.

Delegates at the TUC conference discussed the riots that swept Britain last month.