Instead of waiting for the leaders, rank and file activists and reps need to make the start.
The fight at Chep is an example of how attacks on the cost of living are eroding workers’ pay.
Unite continues to roll out its campaign
Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham has won a court case in defence of his plans to bring the city’s buses back into public control
Coventry’s refuse drivers have voted 94% in favour of continuing their strike as Coventry Labour councillors are suspended from Unite.
Getting organised is the first step
The promised shop-steward combines are a good start, but should go further.
The fight by bus workers for better pay and conditions continues across the country.
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The only way to ensure that union officials will never again sell out their own members to the bosses and the state is to democratise our unions.
TfL is facing a £2 billion shortfall.
The strategy has won victories, but there are limitations.
Unite is running a campaign amongst members working in the bus industry throughout Britain.
The workers will be striking every Wednesday and Friday in March.
Tim Nailsea reviews Why You Should Be A Trade Unionist by Len McCluskey
By Tim Nailsea STAGECOACH DRIVERS, engineers and cleaners in Scotland, Chesterfield, Manchester, the North-East, Lancashire and Liverpool and South Wales are all balloting, or have already been balloted for strike action. The issues are broadly the same everywhere. Despite working throughout the pandemic at considerable personal risk, drivers have either not been awarded a pay […]
By Rebecca Anderson THERE IS a real opportunity for coordinated strike action between two of Britain’s largest workforces: council workers, including school support staff, and hospital employees. If successful, it could bust the public sector pay freeze and build momentum in private sector struggles for substantial pay rises. Local government and school staff have been […]
We need 15% or £15 an hour
Under threat of outsourcing, 550 Unite members at GKN’s plant in Erdington vote to strike.
Remember the old slogan - "with the union leaders where possible, without them where necessary".
Members deliver surprise result in blow for right and official left