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Unions declare victory in Glasgow equal pay fight

Trade unions are claiming victory in the equal pay fight negotiations at Glasgow City Council.

Don’t trust shipyard bosses to save jobs at Cammell Laird

The Unite and GMB unions suspended a programme of rolling walkouts at Cammell Laird shipyard after bosses agreed to delay job cuts.

Santa hats, solidarity and strike against academy at John Roan school

Striking GMB union members were joined by NEU union members who refused to cross their picket line.

Cammell Laird shipyard strike has bosses reeling

A series of strikes by shipyard workers in Birkenhead has won widespread support—and has the potential to push back bosses’ job cuts

Teachers refuse to cross picket line as school workers strike against academisation

GMB union members at The John Roan school in Greenwich, south east London, struck against a plan to turn the school into an academy

Protests at five sites over ‘inhuman’ work conditions

GMB union members and officials held Black Friday protests at five Amazon warehouses last week against the stress and pressure at the company’s warehouses

GMB backs off from DPD couriers strike

27 November 2018
Delivery firm DPD has used legal threats to push the GMB union away from a strike

Cammell Laird workers’ walkout wins solidarity

26 November 2018
Workers at Cammell Laird shipyard in Birkenhead launched a ten-week programme of rolling strikes on Monday

The women that make Glasgow are striking back

26 October 2018
Working class women make Glasgow. That’s the message last week’s stunning 48-hour strike sent out as Glasgow City Council (GCC) services ground to a halt.

Solidarity and sympathy strikes as workers refuse to cross Glasgow pay picket lines

24 October 2018
A fight for equal pay is sparking a strike wave across Glasgow City Council (GCC).

Unions at Glasgow city council set for battles over equal pay

19 September 2018
Low-paid women workers in Glasgow have dealt a blow to their bosses by delivering an overwhelming vote for strikes

Glasgow workers get ready for strikes over equal pay

11 September 2018
Equal pay campaigners in Glasgow are getting ready to deliver a huge mandate for action when their strike ballot closes in the next week.

Reports round up: Bosses’ tricks can’t squash Robinsons workers’ resolve

04 September 2018
Robinsons (Britvic) strikers in Norwich received a boost last Sunday at the annual Burston School Strike Rally in Norfolk.

Union leaders are wrong to make concessions that weaken Corbyn

18 August 2018
CWU union leader Dave Ward has spoken out in defence of Jeremy Corbyn. Others are demanding he concedes over the definition of antisemitism.

Trade union leaders pile pressure onto Labour to silence criticism of Israel

14 August 2018
Trade Union leaders and allies of Corbyn have put increasing pressure on him to adopt a definition of antisemitism that restricts criticism of Israel.

North Sea oil workers stage strikes to defend rotas

14 August 2018
North Sea oil rig workers struck for 12 hours on Monday and a 24-hour strike is planned for Monday 20 August.

Union staff stage a walkout

24 July 2018
GMB and Unite union members working for the ATL section of the NEU union struck on Thursday of last week.

Second union joins John Roan strikes

17 July 2018
GMB union members at John Roan school joined NEU union members in a two-day strike on Wednesday and Thursday of last week.

Local government round up: Kirkless bin workers have bosses on the run

17 July 2018
in workers in Kirklees, west Yorkshire are tentatively celebrating a union victory after management agreed to all their demands.

Don’t let Prentis palm off piss-poor pay packet on health workers

17 July 2018
Tens of thousands of health workers will be forced to wait up to eight months for thousands of pounds promised by the Tories and union leaders.