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Unite the Union highlights

  • Trade unions / Mick Lynch, Sharon Graham and the capitulating left

    As the next election approaches, supposedly ‘radical’ trade unionists are lining up obediently behind Starmer and Labour, against the interests of their members.

    1 Jul 2023 , Class Consciousness Project

  • Pay and conditions / Homeless charity workers on strike for decent wages

    St Mungo’s staff have suffered a 30 percent real-terms pay cut in the last ten years.

    22 Jun 2023 , Proletarian

  • Trade unions / NHS pay offer exposes the limitations of trade unionism

    The NHS dispute has brought into sharp focus the inability of modern trade unions in Britain to advance working-class aims.

    29 Mar 2023 , Proletarian

  • Support the Felixstowe dockers!

    Workers at the country’s busiest port are using their collective power to demand a pay rise in line with rampant inflation.

    23 Aug 2022 ,

  • Health / Covid: Frontline workers are paying for the crisis with their lives

    Thousands of businesses are claiming to be ‘essential’, forcing staff to come to work but failing to provide PPE or to implement proper safety measures.

    25 Jan 2021 , Proletarian

  • Industry / Government announces extra £16.5bn for military

    Government promises spending will protect 10,000 jobs, but at what cost to the working class?

    9 Dec 2020 ,

  • Disputes / Drivers resist Goldstar intimidation

    Union-busting haulier cowboys forcing extremely dangerous conditions onto workers.

    6 Jul 2020 ,

  • Pay and conditions / Conditions at Yodel: report by a worker

    Workers in the logistics industry are being sweated at ever-more intense and unendurable rates.

    26 Jun 2020 , Proletarian

  • Pay and conditions / BA threatens to sack its entire workforce

    After rinsing the furlough scheme, the airline is now insisting that its staff should accept huge pay cuts or be sacked.

    16 Jun 2020 , Proletarian

  • Disputes / Wirral’s binmen to strike?

    Outsourced waste collector Biffa is playing fast and loose with its workers’ pay.

    3 Mar 2020 , Proletarian

  • Pay and conditions / Offshore oil workers under threat

    Will trade unions now get off the back foot and start to mobilise their members into an active campaign of resistance?

    26 Feb 2020 , Proletarian

  • Pay and conditions / Union-busting at St Mungo’s homeless charity

    More pressure on workers in the charity sector, where a race to the bottom is well underway.

    4 Feb 2020 , Proletarian

  • Disputes / RSPCA: You wouldn’t treat a dog like this

    Despite healthy donations and reserves, the charity is using a minor single-year operational deficit to justify ‘salami-slicing measures‘ on pay and conditions.

    30 Jan 2020 , Proletarian

  • Industry / Car industry crisis pushes Peugeot-Fiat merger

    Workers rightly fear for their jobs as another round of ‘cost-cutting’ looms.

    15 Jan 2020 , Proletarian

  • Trade unions / Stifling criticism of Israel in the British trade-union movement

    TUC votes in support of Palestine, but decision is ignored by the media, including those on the left.

    1 Nov 2019 , Lalkar

  • Disputes / Brum bin strike concludes with a payout

    A new deal was concluded in March to appease workers’ anger at secret payouts to GMB members during the 2017 strike.

    24 Mar 2019 , Proletarian

  • Disputes / Refuse, resist! Brum rubbish collectors ready to strike as council talks fail

    Brummie binmen are days away from an all-out strike, clashing once again with a Labour council that has rewarded scabs and blacklisted strikers.

    20 Jan 2019 , Sputnik

  • Lay-offs and closures / Carillion: lawyers make hay whilst workers wait for pay

    As workers try to get recompense for lost jobs and wages, the whole crooked business of outsourcing is being exposed to view.

    14 Jan 2019 , Proletarian

  • Disputes / Cammell Laird strike suspended for now

    Workers’ resistance has led to a stay of execution at the Merseyside shipyard.

    3 Jan 2019 , Lalkar

  • Lay-offs and closures / Cammell Laird shipyard strikes

    Overproduction is hitting industry after industry, proving once more that capitalism cannot solve the problems of the masses.

    27 Dec 2018 ,

  • Disputes / Birmingham: Two-faced council breaks promises to binmen and residents

    Birmingham’s militant binmen deserve our full support as their dispute looks set to break out again this Christmas.

    1 Dec 2018 , Proletarian

  • Disputes / Support the Glasgow women’s strike for equal pay

    But beware the Labour wolf in sheep's clothing!

    23 Oct 2018 ,

  • Pay and conditions / Courier strikes

    As the food delivery industry consolidates itself, the winning companies and putting the screws on drivers to up their profits.

    16 Oct 2018 , Proletarian

  • Lay-offs and closures / More redundancies in the Midlands: Rolls-Royce and JLR

    The world crisis of overproduction is far from over.

    12 Aug 2018 , Proletarian

  • Pay and conditions / Gig economy faces legal setbacks

    Curbs being put on fictitious ‘self-employment’.

    9 Aug 2018 , Proletarian

  • Disputes / TGI Fridays staff strike over tips ‘redistribution’

    Cut-throat competition in the oversupplied public dining sector is forcing real wages down even as the minimum wage officially goes up.

    21 Jun 2018 ,

  • Trade unions / Universities union leader Sally Hunt sidesteps members’ censure motion

    Trade union 'democracy' in action.

    19 Jun 2018 ,

  • Industry / GKN takeover brings mayhem to thousands of working-class lives

    Unelected shareholders and executives continue to make decisions affecting thousands of families, revealing the true nature of the capitalist system.

    26 May 2018 , Lalkar

  • Disputes / Glasgow lowlife

    Yet another 'arms-length' union-busting operation as Glasgow city council's chosen privateers hire scabs rather than pay agreed wages.

    15 May 2018 ,

  • Pay and conditions / Council workers win skirmish with Manchester outsourcing cowboy

    The involvement of Labour councils in the outsourcing racket should make unions think twice about their generous donations to the party's coffers.

    11 Mar 2018 ,

  • Disputes / Crossrail electricians walk out

    Blacklisting Balfour Beatty manager dismisses union members in an attept to avert strike action.

    1 Feb 2018 , Proletarian

  • Trade unions / Super Puma helicopter still flying despite multiple fatal crashes

    The government continues to prioritise private profit over public safety.

    1 Dec 2017 , Proletarian

  • Disputes / Birmingham’s binmen conclude their strike … for now

    A ‘new’ deal has been offered that appears to make some concessions, but which demands more work for the same money.

    1 Dec 2017 , Proletarian

  • Disputes / Binmen on strike in Birmingham

    More council cuts = more rats! Birmingham’s refuse workers are mounting strong resistance to the latest austerity plans of the city’s Labour-led council.

    1 Aug 2017 , Proletarian

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