Pay campaigns
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
31 October 2017
Civil service workers in the PCS union protested outside offices across the country on Tuesday—pay day—against poverty pay.
24 October 2017
Anger against the Tories’ 1 percent public sector pay cap was clear on the streets of central London
18 October 2017
Anger against the Tories' 1 percent public sector pay cap was on the streets of central London on Tuesday night.
15 October 2017
The 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.
12 October 2017
Health secretary Jeremy Hunt tried to con health workers by claiming he had scrapped the Tories’ 1 percent pay cap.
10 October 2017
Up to 2,000 people marched against the public sector pay cap in Edinburgh last Saturday.
03 October 2017
Civil service workers at government department offices across Britain protested on Friday of last week demanding an end to the 1 percent public sector pay cap.
26 September 2017
The revolt against the public sector pay cap is growing.
21 September 2017
Labour's shadow chancellor urged unions to coordinate industrial action to break the Tories' public sector pay cap last night, Wednesday.
19 September 2017
Pressure 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.