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"What do we want? Pay parity. When do we want it? 11 years ago!"

Mears strikers protest photo Becci Heagney   (Click to enlarge)

Striking Mears workers in Manchester holding a protest outside Northwards housing association offices on 23 June chanting "what do we want? Pay parity. When do we want it? Eleven years ago!"

Mears employees earn up to £6,000 less than workers on the other side of the city. Unite the Union is looking to step up the dispute, regularising strike pay and moving to involve other Mears staff who maintain the council's own premises, including the iconic Gothic town hall.

In this issue

What we think

Step up the fight to kick out Tories and Blairites

Grenfell Tower

After Grenfell - fight for safe homes

Camden evacuation - residents expose risks - Blairites duck responsibility

Grenfell fire compounded by overcrowding: build more council homes now

Reports: organising to fight for safe homes after Grenfell

Council union responds to Grenfell

Socialist Party news and analysis

Police accused of killing cover-up

NHS secret cuts plans exposed

Barclays finally charged for having hands in till

Students 'skirt' school uniform issue!

Homelessness - Corbyn offers housing revolution

Benefit cap defeat for government

Tories may have broken election laws... again

What We Saw

Socialist history

Liverpool's 1983-87 socialist council

International socialist news and analysis

Trump and the fossil fuel corporations - a lethal combination for the planet

Jobstown Not Guilty - verdict imminent

Workplace news and analysis

Trade unions must organise to kick out the Tories

Unison conference: confident delegates take control, give Corbyn 'rapturous' welcome

Refuse workers strike against bullying bosses

"What do we want? Pay parity.

Socialist Party reports and campaigns

Organise the 'youthquake'! Young Socialists - Generation Socialist

Cardiff: unity in solidarity with Grenfell

Corbyn inspires thousands at Glastonbury

To join the struggle to save the NHS

From Militant to the Socialist Party - what you thought

Pentrich Rebellion 200 years on

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Manchester:

Go Ahead offers deal to Manchester bus drivers

With public campaigning back in full swing - now is the time to raise fighting fund

Manchester bus drivers' indefinite strikers fight on

Under attack and fighting back

Manchester indefinite bus strike against 'fire and rehire'

Pay:

Norwich City Council workers vote for strike action over broken promises on pay and conditions

Thurrock refuse workers strike escalates

National Education Union needs a socialist, fighting deputy general secretary

RMT: Militant industrial and political strategy must be fought for

Workers:

United action needed to defeat fire and rehire

Readers' opinion

Hartlepool sums up Labour crisis

Strike:

Ealing parking wardens strike against Serco over absence policy

Establishing factory sales of the Socialist in Leicester

Council:

TUSC is back

Housing:

Cladding: Tories refuse to protect leaseholders again