Pay campaigns
08 December 2014
More than 700 Defence Support Group (DSG) workers walked out at Ministry of Defence (MoD) bases across Britain today, Monday. The Unite union members were beginning a ten-day strike against a real terms pay cut.
02 December 2014
The revolt inside the Unison union against the leadership’s sell out of members in local government over pay is growing.
02 December 2014
College lecturers across Britain are balloting for strikes over pay—but some in their UCU union are organising to get the ballot scrapped.
02 December 2014
Tory chancellor George Osborne has claimed that the government will give the NHS a £2 billion “lifeline”.
27 November 2014
Defence Support Group (DSG) workers have gone on the offensive in their dispute over pay, calling another ten days of strikes. The action is set to begin on Monday 8 December and last until Friday 19.
24 November 2014
Up to 500,000 health workers struck for four hours across England today, Monday.
24 November 2014
NHS workers in nine different unions across England walked out on strike from 7am to 11am this morning, Monday.
18 November 2014
The rotten pay proposal cooked up by leaders of the Unison, GMB and Unite union leaderships has now settled the dispute with local government employers.
18 November 2014
Cleaners in the RMT union at London’s Waterloo station struck for 24 hours, outsourced cleaners in the Unison union at Birkbeck University won better terms and conditions
11 November 2014
Defence Support Group (DSG) workers have escalated their fight for a pay rise by announcing a four-day walkout.
11 November 2014
Voting ends this week in pay consultation ballots of local government workers in England and Wales.
11 November 2014
Health workers in Wales are frustrated that their Unison union has suspended a pay strike planned for Monday of this week.
04 November 2014
The Unison, GMB and Unite unions are holding a consultative ballot of local government members in England and Wales over pay.
04 November 2014
Hundreds of union militants will gather at the Unite the Resistance conference later this month to debate how we get united action against the Tories.
04 November 2014
Health workers across nine unions in England are set to strike for four hours on Monday 24 November.
04 November 2014
Defence Support Group (DSG) workers struck on Thursday of last week at the Ministry of Defence bases at Colchester, Warminster and Bovington.
04 November 2014
Bosses at Picturehouse cinemas announced last week “there will be no redundancies at this time” at the Ritzy. The U-turn came less than a week after it said it planned to sack 34 workers at the south London cinema.
04 November 2014
Some 2,000 Post Office workers are set to receive their strike ballot papers on Saturday of this week after pay talks broke down with bosses.
28 October 2014
Unison leaders face a serious kickback over their decision to call off a local government strike on 14 October.
28 October 2014
A new strike date has been called—now workers want to see escalating action, says Tomáš Tengely-Evans