Pay campaigns
Striking workers protest against bosses in London as pay fights hot up
03 August 2017Chants of “low pay—no way” rang out in the City of London financial district today, Thursday, as workers from three disputes took to the streets.
Low paid workers would take 316 years to earn the average fat cat's annual salary
03 August 2017A worker earning the average wage in Britain of £28,000 a year would take 160 years to earn what the average company chief executive earns in one year.
UCU misses an opportunity to encourage pay resistance
01 August 2017Workers in the UCU union in higher education have voted to accept a below-inflation pay offer. Bosses had offered just 1.7 percent.
Mears housing workers protest as part of strike against pay differential
28 July 2017Workers were on the move in central Manchester today, Friday, as strikers from Mears housing came to the town hall instead of mounting a picket.
'Scrap the cap!' - Royal College of Nursing begins protests over public sector pay cap
27 July 2017Chants of "Scrap the cap" rang out in front of Downing Street as over 200 nurses protested against the Tories' 1 percent public sector pay cap in central London today, Thursday.
Sheffield jobcentre strike inspires wider fight as PCS union discusses campaign
25 July 2017Workers at a Sheffield jobcentre ended a week-long strike last Friday—and could soon be joined by workers at three other offices in their fight against Tory cuts and closures.
Wetherspoon advertising jobs at less than minimum wage
25 July 2017The Wetherspoon pub chain is advertising jobs paying less than the minimum wage.
Mears housing workers in Manchester fight for better pay and want outsourcing to end
21 July 2017Some 180 workers who maintain homes for Manchester city council are two weeks into a four week continuous strike
Arrogant Tories have robbed our wages with public sector pay cap
18 July 2017Chancellor Philip Hammond is not denying reports that he told his cabinet colleagues that public sector workers are “overpaid”.
The Tory crisis creates an unmissable chance to end the public sector pay cap
11 July 2017Anger at the public sector pay cap has opened up rifts at the top of the Tory party.
Unions will need to fight to beat the pay cap
20 June 2017Unions representing more than 1.6 million local government workers are demanding a 5 percent pay rise to break the Tory public sector pay cap.
Glass workers’ strikes can shatter bosses’ rotten offer
06 June 2017Workers at Sierra Windows in Paignton and DB Glass in Newton Abbott—both in Devon—were set to hold further strikes this week.
Confronting the restaurant boss who refuses to pay his workers wages
06 June 2017Watch the embarrassing conversation when Socialist Worker confronts Robert Newmark, a boss refusing to pay what he owes to his workers
Swashbuckling Picturehouse strikers hope to plunder the Cineworld treasure chest
30 May 2017Picturehouse workers at East Dulwich cinema in south London kept the pressure on last Saturday with a strike hitting the new Pirates of the Caribbean film premiere.
Scottish TUC leader says, ‘Learn from the lecturers and fight back on pay’
24 May 2017Scottish TUC deputy general secretary Dave Moxham's call to “challenge the public sector pay freeze” comes as 70,000 council workers ballot for strikes over pay
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.
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