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Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition
27 January 2012
Low-paid Tyne and Wear Metro cleaners fight for free travel
"If Bernard gets up your nose - picket!", was the slogan on the leaflet handed out by cleaners from Churchill Contract Services who work on Tyne and Wear Metro.
Women workers striking against povety wages at Pink's in Bermondsey in 1911, photo by TUC library collections
28 September 2011
1911 - Bermondsey women's uprising
A century ago, women in the trade unions numbered only a few thousand. Many working class women worked in the most appalling conditions in sweatshops and were outside the trade unions' ranks...
14 September 2011
Low pay and the housing crisis
When you tell someone that you're claiming benefits you can be sure that, in many cases, they will initially picture the right-wing tabloid caricature of someone sat at home all day watching TV, writes Dominic Smith, Winchester.
9 March 2010
Solid two-day civil service strike shows anger of PCS members
PCS members have demonstrated their anger at the attack on their Civil Service Compensation Scheme by staging a solid two-day strike that has affected courts, passport offices, jobcentres, tax offices and many other government services, writes John McInally, National Vice-President PCS, personal capacity.
28 May 2008
Over four million low-paid workers felt some relief when Gordon Brown was forced into his tax u-turn, writes Judy Beishon.
7 May 2008
TUC attacks Labour on working poverty
A TIMELY report by the TUC, Hard Work, Hidden Lives, shows that New Labour politicians have much to learn about the lives of the working-class people who pushed them into power and could shove them out again...
19 February 2008
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Birmingham council workers strike on 5 February 2008. Photo S O'Neill |
6 February 2008
MPs' insult to low-paid workers
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TGWU cleaners demonstrating against low pay, photo Molly Cooper |
7 June 2007
Ritzy - low-paid workers strike again
AFTER A one-day strike on 26 May, staff at Ritzy cinema in Brixton struck again on 1 June. Shop steward Jackie Brethold of the union BECTU spoke to Neil Cafferky.
7 June 2007
Young people: a bright future... or different shades of grey
What's facing young people today?: YOUNG PEOPLE today are more likely to be regarded by the government and the bosses' press as a threat and a nuisance, rather than the next generation that needs encouragement and development...
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