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Save Port Talbot: strike and occupy for nationalisation

3,000 jobs are under threat at Tata Steel. The fight will have consequences across the whole industry.

Andy Yorke  ·  12 March 2024

Sharon Graham: a mid-term report

Halfway through Graham’s first term, we look at the general secretary’s record and the limits of her return to ‘pure’ trade unionism.

Workers Power  ·  11 March 2024

Health strikes: future of NHS at stake

The Tories can't be trusted with the NHS. But there can be no holding back for Labour.

Workers Power  ·  19 September 2023

Workers In Action — July-August 2023

Industrial disputes round-up

Workers Power  ·  06 July 2023

St Mungo’s Unite extends strike to all-out

800 striking workers at St Mungo’s homelessness charity have escalated to indefinite action, Jeremy Dewar reports.

Jeremy Dewar  ·  20 June 2023

Health bulletin: Defy the anti-union laws

Health bulletin for 1 May 2023

Workers Power  ·  01 May 2023

Nurses: defy strike ban and organise for a real pay rise!

The fight goes on, but only rank and file control can overcome obstacles

KD Tait  ·  29 April 2023

Nurses: what now after the ‘No’ vote?

AS WE go to press NHS managers and Health Minster Steve Barclay are dragging the largest NHS union, the Royal College of Nursing, before the High Court in a bid by to block nurses’ strike action due to start on the May Day weekend. They claimed that the strike mandate would be invalid from midnight […]

KD Tait  ·  27 April 2023

NHS pay deal is a pay cut: vote no!

The pay offer is an insult. Organise to fight for more.

Jeremy Dewar  ·  28 March 2023

Health bulletin: Victory to the nurses – defend the NHS

Health bulletin for 14 December 2022

Workers Power  ·  14 December 2022

Southampton dockers defy anti-union laws in solidarity with Liverpool strike

By Dave Stockton Dockers in Southampton have refused to unload containers diverted from Liverpool, in defiance of shipping companies and government ministers attempts to undermine the Liverpool strike. This act of solidarity shows both the possibility and necessity of defying the anti-union laws, which outlaw secondary action and allow bosses to divert work to non-striking […]

Dave Stockton  ·  01 October 2022

Dockers strikes spread from Felixstowe to Liverpool

Five hundred Liverpool dockers at England’s fourth-largest port, employed by MDHC Container Services, are to strike from 19 September to 3 October

Dave Stockton  ·  10 September 2022

Public sector pay ballots: press for co-ordination

Nurses, refuse collectors, youth workers, teachers, lecturers and civil servants are being balloted.

Rebecca Anderson  ·  10 September 2022

Report — TUC lefts urge resistance to cost of living crisis

By Jeremy Dewar “A new deal for working people, a new social settlement for the UK” A LONDON TUC rally for the 18 June national demonstration heard speakers from a variety of disputes and strikes. Rail workers, teachers and lecturers, caterers and cleaners, civil servants were all represented. The eve-of-rally meeting, held at Congress House […]

Jeremy Dewar  ·  14 June 2022

Refuse workers, leadership, and the rank-and-file

Despite all the start-and-stop action, setbacks and limited victories, it is doubtless the case that there is a growing militant mood amongst refuse workers, which Sharon Graham’s new leadership and its organising drive on the bins has built on.

Unite and Fight Bulletin  ·  03 June 2022

Wildcatting Welwyn workers win!

Refuse workers employed by Urbaser at Welwyn Garden City have shown the way to deal with bullying bosses.

Unite and Fight Bulletin  ·  03 June 2022

Bin struggle spreads to other unions

Unite’s organising drive across the industry is spilling over into other unions, inspiring refuse workers in the GMB in particular to join the struggle.

Unite and Fight Bulletin  ·  03 June 2022

Coventry bin workers keep up the fight

HGV drivers striking against Coventry City Council since 31 January remain determined as ever, while the city’s Labour councillors continue strike-breaking tactics.

Unite and Fight Bulletin  ·  03 June 2022

We need to rejuvenate the labour movement

Editorial May 2022, No. 393

Jeremy Dewar  ·  27 April 2022

Workers take on Greedy Caterpillar

Caterpillar workers at two sites in Northern Ireland have just completed four days of strike action, 11-15 April, with more planned.

Unite and Fight Bulletin  ·  24 April 2022

We need a national fight against cost of living attacks

Instead of waiting for the leaders, rank and file activists and reps need to make the start.

Unite and Fight Bulletin  ·  23 April 2022

Class struggle bulletin

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