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22 May 2013
Fighting back pays off: Thera East Midlands forced to make concessions
After very successful strike action, support workers employed by Thera East Midlands have won some important concessions
20 May 2013
Sacked Tesco drivers on the march again
Around 100 of the Tesco drivers sacked earlier this year and their families marched through Doncaster
24 April 2013
As Usdaw delegates descended on Blackpool for our ADM (conference), Morrisons have announced 689 job losses across its 490 stores as a result of introducing new technology into cash offices
24 April 2013
"This is the first time I have ever been out on strike and my first protest. I have really enjoyed the protest at Grantham today and will do it again if I have to."...
10 April 2013
Con-Dems' latest cruel cut: Disability Living Allowance
Iain Duncan Smith, who claimed he could live on the Jobseeker's Allowance pittance of £53 a week, is the architect of the latest assault on disabled people...
3 April 2013
Thera East Midlands: Joe Warner, the (now former) managing director of Thera East Midlands has resigned. Unison members who are in dispute with the company had been wondering where he was!
3 April 2013
Abolition of Agricultural Wages Board will result in increased rural poverty
The government is set to abolish the Agricultural Wages Board (AWB) for agricultural workers in England and Wales in October...
27 March 2013
Cleaners' low pay battle: Cleaners working for Churchill on Arriva Trains Wales were on 24-hour strike on 27 March. They are fighting against poverty pay...
20 March 2013
HCA strike: Unite Homes and Communities Agency (HCA) members (Housing Workers Branch) will be on strike on 20 March against a pay offer that has resulted in unprecedented anger and disgust among members
20 March 2013
Help build an alternative to the pro-cuts press with a May Day greeting
As the Socialist goes to press the details of the new press regulator are coming to light, writes Bob Severn.
8 March 2013
Post Office workers vote for strike action
Members of the Communication Workers Union have voted overwhelmingly in favour of strike action returning an 88% yes vote in a national strike ballot
Scotland Youth Fight for Jobs arrives in Glasgow, 20 October 2012, photo by Matt Dobson
27 February 2013
The Work Programme isn't working
20 out of 9,500. That's how many former incapacity benefit claimants were placed in jobs lasting longer than three months
The 2008 Shell oil tanker drivers' strike was successful, photo Bob Severn
26 February 2013
Oil tanker drivers show their industrial strength
BP tanker drivers at the Grangemouth oil refinery came out on a 72-hour strike
22 February 2013
RMT slams media blackout of Eastleigh TUSC candidate
With less than a week to go in the Eastleigh byelection, transport union RMT today blasted a deliberate media blackout of working class candidate Darren Procter, a member of the union's executive and the candidate of TUSC
20 February 2013
This month US company Liberty Global took over Virgin Media. Having taken over 'losses' racked up by Virgin while constructing their cable network, Liberty will pay no corporation tax for the foreseeable future
Meat being prepared at Smithfield market, photo by Paul Mattsson
13 February 2013
Horsemeat scandal: good for profit, bad for health
The scandal of 29% horsemeat found in Tesco value burgers four weeks ago has paled into insignificance compared to the revelation in the last week that Findus' beef lasagne is 100% equine
6 February 2013
Support the Socialist with a May Day greeting
Hacked off by the capitalist press?: On 22 January, less than two months after the Leveson Report was published, billionaire media magnate Rupert Murdoch welcomed Chancellor George (née Gideon) Osborne and London Mayor Boris Johnson into his Mayfair apartment, writes Bob Severn.
16 January 2013
For-profit schools: Up to now, academy chains have not been allowed to declare a profit directly out of the school budget, writes Martin Powell-Davies.
Robbie Segal
20 December 2012
Robbie, a longstanding comrade in the Socialist Party and a leading activist in Usdaw, was at the forefront of workers' battles
19 December 2012
Comet owners walk away with £ millions
Over Christmas and New Year 2008/2009, Woolworths, the long-established high street retail chain, folded - a victim of the capitalist economic recession...
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