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22 January 2014
Bus drivers' strike: About 60 drivers, members of Unite, at First Hampshire and Dorset were on strike for 24 hours on 20 January in a dispute which has seen their pay fall dramatically behind their regional counterparts
20 November 2013
UPS workers resist bad working conditions
Unite members working at the UPS Parcels depot in Camden, north London, will be on strike on 22 November. Workers have had enough of being forced to work overtime, impossible workloads and bullying
13 November 2013
One year after being unfairly sacked, 183 ex-Tesco drivers will march again in Doncaster on Saturday 16 November, writes Alistair Tice.
6 November 2013
Bosses find new ways of turning the screw
At Yodel Cardiff parcel delivery operation, workers are finding it impossible to earn a living
30 October 2013
20 years of privatised train robbery
November marks 20 years since John Major's Tory government gave the go-ahead to splitting up and selling off British Rail
Warrrington bus drivers on strike, September 2013, photo .
16 September 2013
Bus drivers at Network Warrington are staging a number of one-day strikes against a pay freeze and also a lack of investment which they fear is setting the company up to fail
26 June 2013
Having a fine time? Not if you're a courier driver
Van drivers fined for late deliveries, unable to take holidays for fear of being fined - this is the reality of working life for a workforce in Cardiff, writes A South West Socialist Party member.
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
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!
7 March 2013
Capenhurst victory: Construction workers on the Capenhurst construction site near Chester have fought off attempts to abandon the NAECI national agreement on terms and conditions...
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
9 January 2013
In less than four weeks, over 150 drivers at a Sainsbury's depot have chosen to cancel their membership with Usdaw and transfer to Unite
14 December 2012
Doncaster drivers give Tesco & Stobarts a bloody nose
From the National Shop Stewards Network website, www.shopstewards.net...
Striking Tesco drivers on the picket line , photo A Tice
11 December 2012
Tesco drivers successfully blockade distribution centre
With confidence high after Saturday's march and picket, Doncaster Tesco drivers upped the anti on Monday in their dispute with Tesco/Stobarts, writes Alistair Tice.
Striking Tesco drivers on the picket line , photo by A Tice
6 December 2012
Doncaster Tesco drivers on indefinite strike - photo
See article: www.socialistparty.org.uk/articles/15804/05-12-2012/nothing-to-lose-tesco-drivers-vote-for-indefinite-strike, writes Please send messages of support to Unite shop steward Trevor Cheetham: [email protected]
5 December 2012
Nothing to lose - Tesco drivers vote for indefinite strike
180 Tesco drivers, members of Unite the union, at the supermarket giant's distribution hub in Doncaster have announced an indefinite strike from 7 December
10 November 2012
Doncaster drivers go to war with Tesco
I've never been on a picket line like it! An armoured personnel carrier and a farmer's muckspreader blocked the gates to the depot
7 November 2012
Black cabs: Workers at Coventry black cab maker LTI, staged a sit-in on 31 October before entering talks with administrators, PWC...
31 October 2012
Scores of trains cancelled in west midlands
Kick the fat cats off our railways: If ever an example is needed which demonstrates how privatisation of key public services leads to job cuts, higher prices and a worse service, look no further than the rail network
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