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30 January 2013
Greencore workers take 24-hour strike action
500 Unite members who work at the food company Greencore in Hull have taken strike action to demand a living wage
30 January 2013
Jumping through hoops for a job
Youth Fight for Jobs has a new initiative aimed at the under-employed. The campaign is asking: Are you sick of your boss?
photo Paul Mattsson
30 January 2013
Resistance is growing to the onslaught on healthcare. 25,000 people marched in Lewisham against the threat of losing the A&E, other services or the hospital itself. Unison members at Mid Yorkshire NHS Trust are taking nspiring strike action
25 January 2013
Twelfth day of strike action by Tyne and Wear metro cleaners
Churchill cleaners are still battling against poverty pay
Photo Paul Mattsson
23 January 2013
Fight for every job: The PCS union has scored an important victory in the fight against cuts. 43 of its members working in the Department for Work and Pensions were threatened with compulsory redundancy
NUT protest outside the Department of Education by teachers and parents opposed to the GCSE regrading in August 2012 , photo Neil Cafferky
21 January 2013
London teachers call for strike action against Performance Related Pay
Nearly 300 NUT reps from across London made it clear they want their union executive to vote for strike action
16 January 2013
We need an alternative to blind-alley capitalism... socialism!
It is little over a month since Chancellor George Osborne delivered his autumn budget statement, prefacing that vicious onslaught on the poorest with a claim that "the British economy is healing"
16 January 2013
Beware: latest pensions changes
The coalition government has confirmed its intention to introduce a new flat rate state pension from 2017, writes Paul Gerrard.
16 January 2013
A day in the life... Young, low-paid, bullied and angry
If I'm opening the pub, I start at 9am. A managerial staff member should arrive at 8am to let us in but usually me and another kitchen worker wait for ten minutes, writes Hannah Parker.
15 January 2013
Agency Action Day: 16th January
On Wednesday 16th January events will take place at call centres around the country to highlight the exploitation of agency workers thanks to a loophole in the law which is costing workers more than £500 a month in lost wages at some sites
15 January 2013
PCS fighting the austerity agenda - 'Action gets results'
The coalition government's austerity programme is being increasingly exposed as a disaster for all but the business and banking elite, writes John McInally, PCS vice president
9 January 2013
Sheffield Sure Start: 250 people protested in December outside Sheffield town hall against the Labour council's planned slashing of Sure Start children's centres and nurseries, writes Sharron Milsom.
Three-day strike of Mid Yorkshire Unison NHS staff against pay cuts and mass downgrading, photo Iain Dalton
9 January 2013
Standing firm in Mid Yorks hospitals pay cuts battle
Admin and clerical Unison and Unite members at Mid Yorkshire Hospitals Trust have been fighting back against 'downbanding' ie pay cuts, writes Alistair Tice.
20 December 2012
Victory for post depot cleaners and engineers
Cleaners and engineers who work on contracts for Royal Mail have secured a big improvement to the pay rise on offer from their bosses after threatening to strike tomorrow (Friday)
20 December 2012
Nobody supports cuts in Birmingham council's sham 'consultations'
One of four cuts 'consultation' meetings across Birmingham took place in the in the Council House
18 December 2012
Caerphilly council workers protest against bosses' pay hike
Over 600 council workers protested on Monday and Tuesday against the plan by Labour-controlled Caerphilly council to increase top managers' pay by over 20% while council services and jobs are cut by 10%
17 December 2012
Lobbying Carmarthenshire council for a 'living wage'
On 12th December, Unison members and Socialist Party activists braved the bitter cold to lobby Carmarthenshire councillors
17 December 2012
Brighton & Hove lobby against council tax cuts
A petition of 700 signatures opposing cuts to council tax benefit collected from across Brighton and Hove was presented to Brighton and Hove council yesterday...
14 December 2012
2 sisters food workers fight back
Chants could be heard in English, Urdu and Polish as over 200 workers braved the icy weather for a mass picket outside the depot of 2 Sisters Food Group in Smethwick, Birmingham...
12 December 2012
A very Them & Us Christmas quiz
How much attention have you paid to the 'Them & Us' column in the Socialist? Try our 20 questions of 2012 to find out.
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