Scotland
Overwhelming votes say no to 3 percent pay deals
13 November 2018A battle over local government pay in Scotland could be looming after more workers rejected their latest pay offer.
Car industry bosses lay off hundreds to protect profits
10 November 2018Commentators, business and union leaders, say that Brexit is to blame for car factory closures. It’s really down to firms’ fear that overproduction will hit profits, argues Sarah Bates
Shock and anger at Michelin factory closure
08 November 2018Tyre-maker Michelin's threat to 850 jobs has to be met by action from the unions.
The workers who sabotaged Pinochet’s murder machine
30 October 2018A new film tells how engineers in East Kilbride refused to work on the Chilean regime’s jet engines. Dave Sherry spoke to one of those workers, John Keenan
Monster march in Glasgow to demand more pay for teachers shows the mood to fight
27 October 2018Around 30,000 teachers and their supporters marched through Glasgow on Saturday in a massively powerful display of their determination to win a 10 percent pay rise.
The women that make Glasgow are striking back
26 October 2018Working class women make Glasgow. That’s the message last week’s stunning 48-hour strike sent out as Glasgow City Council (GCC) services ground to a halt.
Solidarity and sympathy strikes as workers refuse to cross Glasgow pay picket lines
24 October 2018A fight for equal pay is sparking a strike wave across Glasgow City Council (GCC).
Teachers in Scotland need a 10 percent pay rise now
23 October 2018Teachers in Scotland are set to take a step forwards in their battle for pay and decent education on Saturday.
Women strike for equal pay in Glasgow - and show the power of workers
23 October 2018Thousands of striking women flooded Glasgow city centre this week demanding that bullying bosses pay up now.
Support the Glasgow strike for equal pay
16 October 2018A key battle in the fight for women’s equality is about to take place in Glasgow. Workers across council services and schools are getting ready for a two-day walkout, reports Sarah Bates
100,000 join Scottish independence march in Edinburgh
08 October 2018It was the largest ever march about the issue and shattered the myth that support for independence is ebbing away.
College lecturers in Scotland throw out pay offer and should now prepare for action
02 October 2018Further Education lecturers in Scotland have voted by 90 percent, on a 60 percent turnout, to reject management’s pay offer in an indicative ballot.
School and council workers are set for equal pay action in Glasgow
02 October 2018Thousands of workers in Glasgow council are preparing for strikes over equal pay.
Build Stand Up To Racism in Scotland
02 October 2018As the far right grows in Britain and across Europe, Scotland needs a stronger anti-racist movement
Time to get organised to break up the British state
02 October 2018A key organiser of the independence march in Edinburgh this Saturday has called on the Scottish National Party (SNP) to use its mandate to demand a second independence referendum
Glasgow workers get ready for strikes over equal pay
11 September 2018Equal pay campaigners in Glasgow are getting ready to deliver a huge mandate for action when their strike ballot closes in the next week.
North Sea oil workers stage strikes to defend rotas
14 August 2018North Sea oil rig workers struck for 12 hours on Monday and a 24-hour strike is planned for Monday 20 August.
Backlash halts the eviction of refugees in Glasgow—for now
06 August 2018A wave of outrage has forced outsourcing giant Serco to back down from plans to throw 330 asylum seekers onto the streets of Glasgow.
Reports round up: Cuts leave skeleton staff to run paper
31 July 2018Journalists have warned that short staffing at a newspaper has left the editorial team “at crisis point”.
A stylish tribute to Glasgow’s Mackintosh
23 July 2018A new exhibition displays Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s work. Dave Sherry looks at the life of the artist who defined Glasgow’s unique look
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