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Reports round up: ‘Bring us back in house,’ demand university workers
30 January 2018Workers at the University of London (UoL) struck against outsourcing last Thursday.
Birmingham home care workers plan strikes to save the service
30 January 2018Home care workers in Birmingham were set to strike for a second time between 12 noon and 2.30pm on Tuesday of next week.
Fight to win the vote for pay battle in local government
29 January 2018There’s a chance to give new life to the sruggle over pay in the public services after a key Unison union body voted against the pay offer in local government
Keep up the Glasgow equal pay fight
23 January 2018Low paid women workers are one step closer to justice in their decade-long fight against Glasgow City Council. But they have to keep up the pressure.
Birmingham home care workers strike for jobs, the service and against brutal shift changes
20 January 2018Hundreds of striking home care workers marched through snow in Birmingham declaring they would fight to defend the service they provide.
Hundreds of Birmingham care workers set to strike over cuts and rotas
16 January 2018Hundreds of vital workers in Birmingham are striking to save a home care service from cuts.
Bradford protesters say no to children's services cuts
12 December 2017The People's Assembly and members of the Unite and Unison unions came together to defend services
New moves in the public sector pay battle
12 December 2017Local government employers have offered Unison, GMB and Unite union members in England and Wales a below-inflation 2 percent pay offer for each of the next two years.
It will take action to win on pay
05 December 2017Local government employers have offered a million council workers in England and Wales a 2 percent “rise” for each of the next two years
Reports round-up: Get a move on over equal pay, Glasgow council
05 December 2017Also: Sellafield | Virgin trains | Kingsmill bakery | Quality Line buses | Kent buses | Medway Maritime Hospital | Picturehouse | Protest against Mariano Rajoy's visit | STUC takes on Scottish budget | Darlington Newsquest | Blacklisting
Jeremy Hunt plans new NHS pay attack—time for unions to take a stand
29 November 2017Tory health secretary Jeremy Hunt wants to steam roll through an assault on hundreds of thousands of NHS workers’ pay.
Unions back the fight against council’s cuts to South Yorkshire Women’s Aid
31 October 2017Also: Equal pay fight in Glasgow | Child services to be slashed in Bradford
Reports round-up: Capita workers strike to defend pensions
31 October 2017Also: Living Wage Week action at Picturehouse | Hospital porters in Exeter and cleaners at Manchester Airports prepare to strike | Fascist Britain First in Bromley and Burslem | BAE reps rally over jobs | Mend hosts Trojan Horse meeting | UCU Left debates beating the pay cap
Hundreds demonstrate against the pay cap
18 October 2017Anger against the Tories' 1 percent public sector pay cap was on the streets of central London on Tuesday night.
It's right to fight over pay - join the TUC lobby on Tuesday
15 October 2017The Tories are trying to diffuse the anger against their 1 percent public sector cap which has cut workers’ pay by almost a fifth since 2010 after price rises are taken into account.
Unions launch ballots to fight the Tories’ pay cap
10 October 2017Up to 2,000 people marched against the public sector pay cap in Edinburgh last Saturday.
New pay offer is not what the Durham teaching assistants deserve
03 October 2017Durham Council is hoping to end the Durham teaching assistants (TAs) dispute with a “new” pay offer.
Unions’ pay claims put pressure on the Tories to give rises
19 September 2017Pressure is mounting on Theresa May to lift the public sector pay cap with a new poll showing that 62 percent of people want it scrapped.
Scottish councils’ equal pay delay shame
19 September 2017Some 250 workers lobbied Glasgow City Council on Thursday of last week demanding they comply with equal pay legislation.
Durham councillors make insulting “final offer” to teaching assistants
19 September 2017Teaching assistants (TAs) in County Durham are furious at their Labour-run council’s latest attempt to settle a dispute over pay.
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