Pay campaigns
14 January 2020
Workers in 37 UCU union branches are reballoting for strikes. The branches voted overwhelmingly for walkouts in initial ballots, but failed to meet the Tories’ 50 percent turnout threshold for legal strikes.
07 January 2020
Outsourced cleaners at HMRC tax offices in Liverpool struck over pay
26 November 2019
Striking university staff were in a buoyant mood as they entered the second day of an eight-day walkout on Tuesday.
25 November 2019
Big picket lines, student support, enthusiastic particpation and union recruitment as eight-day strike begins
25 November 2019
Workers and students staged determined picket lines across Britain on Monday as an eight-day strike got underway.
18 November 2019
Tens of thousands of UCU union members are preparing for their return to the picket line. Sadie Robinson talks to activists about how they’re building solidarity—and how to win
01 November 2019
Eight days of strikes are set to hit 60 universities from Monday 25 November to Wednesday 4 December after workers voted for action in two ballots.
01 October 2019
Workers at 23 sixth form colleges are set to strike on Thursday 17 October in a battle over funding and pay.
01 October 2019
UCU union members in universities are balloting for strikes over pay, workloads, unequal contracts and pensions.
19 July 2019
Catering and cleaning staff at a government department in the capital have walked out and say they won’t go back till they get what they want
16 July 2019
Cleaners and caterers at the Department for Business, Energy, and Industrial Strategy (Beis) began an all-out indefinite strike this week.
31 May 2019
Over a decade of resistance in Scotland has won equal pay settlements for 14,000 mainly women council workers—and their walkouts were key to the result, writes Sarah Bates
21 May 2019
Debates over the next steps in a pay fight in the civil service ran through the PCS union’s conferences this week.
14 May 2019
Workers at Lambeth College in south London have won a pay rise after a series of strikes
30 April 2019
Workers at two London colleges are holding three-day strikes this week in a battle over pay and conditions.
19 March 2019
College lecturers across Scotland and in nine colleges in England were set to strike over pay and conditions this week.
19 March 2019
Workers in the civil service began balloting for national strikes on Monday in a fight to smash low pay
28 February 2019
Shocking new figures have revealed that more than a million public sector workers are paid below the voluntary living wage.
12 February 2019
School teachers in the EIS union in Scotland are voting on whether to accept the latest offer over pay
12 February 2019
Civil service workers are set to begin a national strike ballot