Pay campaigns
06 February 2018
Right wingers have seized on figures for agricultural wages and immigration to say that migrants lead to lower wages. Alistair Farrow looks at the reality
30 January 2018
Workers at 19 further education colleges are fighting to get the vote out in strike ballots over pay.
29 January 2018
There’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
16 January 2018
The Unite union is calling on its members in English and Welsh local government to reject their pay offer in a consultative ballot.
04 January 2018
4 January 2018 was Fat Cat Thursday. The amount already grabbed by the average top executives passed the median annual salary of £28,758 for workers.
02 January 2018
Workers in Britain will suffer the biggest pay cuts of the world’s 32 most advanced economies in 2018, according to the TUC union federation.
02 January 2018
27 December 2017
Pay will continue to fall for millions of workers in 2018
21 December 2017
Three reports underline how the decline of union membership and militancy is allowing many bosses to grab more from workers.
17 December 2017
The Tories are planning to use Brexit as an excuse to push through attacks on workers’ rights.
12 December 2017
Local 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.
12 December 2017
Some 2,000 bus drivers and engineers at Arriva North West were voting on a new pay offer as Socialist Worker went to press on Tuesday.
12 December 2017
Economic difficulties and political discontent lies behind a row over workers’ wages in Japan.
08 December 2017
Sports Direct has been “named and shamed” as one of the 260 bosses who failed to pay workers the national minimum wage.
05 December 2017
Local government employers have offered a million council workers in England and Wales a 2 percent “rise” for each of the next two years
05 December 2017
Workers on strike at two north west bus companies are driving bosses round the bend, writes Sarah Bates
19 November 2017
Chancellor Philip Hammond will likely claim that he’s scrapped the 1 percent public sector pay cap when he delivers his budget this week.
07 November 2017
Two sacked cleaners at a luxury Maserati and Ferrari car showroom have won their jobs back—and the London Living Wage
07 November 2017
Workers at five Picturehouse cinemas in London struck on Sunday and Monday.
07 November 2017
Civil service workers have voted by over 79 percent to fight over pay