Pay campaigns

Health workers rage at Tory pay insult outside Downing Street

Around 200 health workers and their supporters joined a march to Downing Street on Friday to protest against the Tory pay insult.

NHS unions could ballot for strikes after pay insult

Unions reacted furiously to the Tories’ measly 3 percent pay offer

Tories’ last minute pay offer is another insult to NHS workers

The Tories wants to cut NHS workers pay. They rushed out a 3 percent pay offer to health workers in England on Wednesday after a day of shambles and chaos.

Beis workers strike to demand end to low pay at Whitehall department

Outsourced workers at a government office in central London rounded off three days of strikes on Wednesday, in their latest battle for fair pay.

Revolt over BT deal that offers so little

BT telecoms workers are furious after a deal between bosses and their CWU union officials was announced last week.

Health workers and campaigners take to streets against Tory attacks on NHS

Health campaigners and NHS workers across Britain on Saturday joined forces to do battle for the NHS.

Back Sharon Graham in Unite vote, say workers

25 June 2021
Unite members speak to Isabel Ringrose on why backing Sharon Graham for Unite general secretary is linked to the fight for workplace organising

Onto the streets for the NHS on 3 July + Fighting for pay justice in Scotland

08 June 2021
Campaigners and health workers are set to come together on 3 July in protests that also celebrate the NHS’s 73 birthday.

Battles for NHS pay justice in Scotland and England

31 May 2021
Health workers in Scotland campaigning for a decent pay rise were set to march on the Edinburgh parliament this Saturday.

Council workers hit back in Norwich, Thurrock and Ealing

17 May 2021
Strikes by around 170 environmental workers in Norwich are set to begin on 26 May

New offer at Heathrow postpones strikes

05 April 2021
Strikes at Heathrow Airport Limited that were due to start on 2 April have been postponed as workers are balloted over an offer on pay and conditions.

Scotland’s NHS workers deserve more than a 4 percent pay rise

30 March 2021
The battle for greater NHS pay will require building for serious action now, argues Yuri Prasad

Health workers join ‘slow clap’ to protest over Tory pay insult

11 March 2021
Health workers and their supporters showed their anger at the Tories 1 percent pay offer on Thursday by slow clapping in disgust.

Nurse Karen Reissmann fined £10,000 under Tory laws for protesting over pay insult

07 March 2021
Manchester police have fined a nurse £10,000 for organising a protest against low pay in the NHS

40 days and 40 nights of strikes planned + Scaffolders fight + Local government pay + Royal Berks NHS

22 February 2021
Cleaning workers at the La Retraite Roman Catholic Girls’ School in south London are planning 40 days of strikes from 16 March.

NHS battles in Birmingham, Cumberland and Blackburn

15 February 2021
Porters, cleaners, switchboard and catering workers at Cumberland infirmary are poised to take action over unsocial hours payments.

Turn up heat on bosses to win British Gas strike

07 February 2021
Over 7,000 British Gas strikers took their 15th day of strikes this year on Sunday.

DHL strike—‘We won’t be treated like something on the bottom of a shoe’

04 February 2021
DHL workers in Liverpool are continuing their strikes for better pay and an end to a bullying management culture.

Scunthorpe scaffolders build strike for pay justice

25 January 2021
Around 50 scaffolders began a 48-hour strike over pay on Monday at British Steel’s Scunthorpe plant in Lincolnshire.

DHL workers deliver solid strike in Liverpool

20 January 2021
DHL delivery workers in Liverpool began a 48-hour walkout on Thursday as they launched a series of strikes over pay and victimisation.