Pay campaigns
Sacked for wanting wages - the reality of workers’ rights under the Tories
16 May 2017Eleven workers fired by swanky restaurant Beach Blanket Babylon (BBB) in Shoreditch, east London, have been holding nightly protests outside it since management sacked them last week.
Solid walkout in Scotland as EIS Fela members step up their fight
09 May 2017College lecturers in Scotland walked out again today, Tuesday, for their third national strike in a fortnight. It was another demonstration that workers are prepared to take the bosses on.
Labour is right on the NHS pay cap - now get the fat cats out of the health service
02 May 2017Labour has pledged today, Wednesday, to scrap the Tories’ 1 percent pay cap for tens of thousands of health workers.
Industrial round-up - Nurses consider walkouts against Tory pay cap
11 April 2017Nurses consider action over pay cap, Scottish lecturers back strikes, walkouts on at BMW and Woolwich Ferry, social workers want strikes in Kirklees
Unofficial action by migrant workers at London hospital beats back multinational
11 April 2017Low paid migrant workers at an east London hospital have beat back privatising bosses with unofficial action. Now they’re raring to fight for more.
Workers 'living hand to mouth' hold national protests over public sector pay cap
04 April 2017Civil service workers in the PCS union took part in a national day of action against low public sector pay today, Friday.
Public sector pay cap drives workers out of health service—time to fight back
04 April 2017Millions are worse off after the Tories’ latest ‘slap in the face’ to the people who keep our public services going. Activists told Alistair Farrow it’s time to strike against the pay cap
British Airways cabin crew call a fresh week-long strike
28 February 2017It would bring the running total of strike days to 26 in the Unite union members’ fight against poverty pay. Also: unofficial walkout in the post and other stories
Nationwide strike for Fujitsu workers
28 February 2017Workers at IT services firm Fujitsu struck for 24 hours this Tuesday with pickets in London, Manchester, Crewe, Wakefield, Stevenage, Bracknell and Belfast.
Teaching assistants keep up action against pay cuts in Derby and Durham
21 February 2017Also: will the SNP satisfy Glasgow council strikers?
Reports round-up: Six days of strikes scheduled to hit British Airways
31 January 2017Also: Benefit cuts kill in Kentish Town | Nominate Ian Allinson in Unite | Peace activists target fighter jets | Nuclear bosses attack pensions | No justice over Marikana | Picturehouse strike vote | EHRC layoffs | Fracking protests | Housing campaigns
Surgical strikers say low pay won’t cut it
31 January 2017The workers who disinfect and sterilise surgical instruments at three south Wales hospitals struck on Wednesday of last week.
Striking teaching assistants besiege Derby council to overturn huge pay cut
31 January 2017Around 150 teaching assistants (TAs) descended on Derby Council’s head office on Tuesday blowing whistles, ringing bells and waving flags and placards.
Brutish Airways is bloody awful to strikers
17 January 2017Cabin crew at BA are standing up to intimidation from their bosses, writes Dave Sewell
Fujitsu IT workers launch new wave of strikes against bosses' attacks
13 January 2017IT workers in Manchester are resisting a multinational firm's attack. Fujitsu is holding down pay, robbing pensions and planning mass layoffs.
Durham TAs' strikes force council into retreat—but union officials call off action
06 December 2016Durham teaching assistants (TAs) have forced council bosses to retreat. But a chance for a clear cut victory was snatched away from them by union officials.
Pay down, benefits cut - the Tories are still making us pay
29 November 2016Real wages in Britain are set to fall below 2008 levels by 2021 and the poorest third of households are going to get poorer
Millions trapped in poverty as class still divides Britain
22 November 2016Right wing MPs fear falling social mobility could undermine support for the free market system, writes Sadie Robinson
Scabs are the real beasts for fantastic strikers at Picturehouse cinemas
22 November 2016Workers at Picturehouse cinemas in Brixton and Hackney in London struck last week in their long-running fight for decent pay.
Why should Scottish FE college workers waste time voting on ‘not a penny more’?
08 November 2016Also: Privatisation opens third front in Glasgow council battle
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