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12 January 2022
Weetabix workers defeat 'fire and rehire' and ballot on improved pay offer
The end of 2021 saw a ramping up of strike action by the Weetabix workers at Corby and Kettering factories
8 December 2021
Clarks strikers defeat 'fire and rehire'
Clarks wanted to rehire staff on reduced wages
17 November 2021
Clarks workers fight 'fire-and-rehire' pay cut
Around 500 people gathered on the picket line of the Clarks distribution centre in Street, Somerset to show their support for the workers on an indefinite strike over the despicable 'fire-and-rehire' tactic being used by LionRock Capital, a situation that could see workers who have worked for Clar
10 November 2021
Weetabix workers escalate action in crunch dispute
Workers at two Weetabix factories launched four-day strikes from 8 November in a dispute over pay and conditions.
10 November 2021
Tories under fire over sleaze and rising prices: A public sector strike on pay is brewing. And is it any wonder?
20 October 2021
Housing crisis: Tories and Labour are not on our side
The deaths from the Grenfell Tower fire, and the fire safety issues it exposed, have shown the real face of the Conservative government – but also that of the Labour Party - tied to big business and the building industry
15 September 2021
Goodlord dispute: Labour's leadership weasled out of backing strike action
In April this year, Scott Hunter, a member of the Socialist Party and a striker at Goodlord, in east London, wrote to his local Labour MP, Emily Thornberry, asking for support for the workers fighting against 'fire and rehire'
7 July 2021
Striking Brush workers continue to protest 'fire and rehire'
Brush engineering workers, on strike for six weeks so far against 'fire and rehire', had negotiations with management on 6 July, but they are refusing to budge
16 June 2021
Engineers in fourth week of strike action
Management at Brush Electrical Machines is attacking pay, terms and conditions
Cladding safety: Protests demand developers and government pay
9 June 2021
Cladding safety: Protests took place around the country on 5 June highlighting the cladding crisis
Cladding safety: Protests took place around the country on 5 June highlighting the cladding crisis
9 June 2021
If unions give a lead, workers are fully prepared to fight and win victories
A year ago, the trade union leaderships collapsed into national unity with the Tory government and the employers.
2 June 2021
Cladding danger: Protest 5 June!
The tragic Grenfell Tower fire is approaching its fourth anniversary
Reading, 26.5.21: Standing with the #Sparks blockading #AWE in fight against de-skilling #No2ESO
26 May 2021
Reading, 26.5.21: Standing with the #Sparks blockading #AWE in the fight against de-skilling #No2ESO. NG Bailey & Balfour Beatty must pull away from their deskilling agenda!
26 May 2021
Cladding anger builds - protest on 5 June
Three-quarters of cladding systems on new medium-rise buildings use combustible materials. Now residents trapped in fire-risk buildings are taking to the streets to protest outside the salerooms of builders
26 May 2021
Leicester protest against arms supplies to Israel
Not many people in Leicester knew that Israel-based international defence electronics company UAV Tactical Systems had a factory at Meridian Business Park, Leicester, until Palestine Action Leicester (PAL) organised a rooftop protest there
19 May 2021
Huge victory at Go North West as Unite defeats 'fire and rehire'
As we got to press, bus drivers at Go North West in Manchester have defeated attempts to fire and rehire them, agreeing a deal which will end one of the country's longest-running industrial disputes.
12 May 2021
Social care: Another broken Tory promise: Since 2010, spending on social care has decreased despite demand increasing. Boris Johnson pledged in 2019 that he would finally come up with a solution to the social care crisis, and ensure that people
12 May 2021
United action needed to defeat fire and rehire
Seventy percent of people are opposed to 'fire and rehire' and want it made illegal. This number will only grow as this brutal weapon of the bosses, imposing worse pay and conditions on workers by sacking
5 May 2021
The strike at lettings tech platform Goodlord has forced bosses into Acas talks
5 May 2021
Cladding: Tories refuse to protect leaseholders again
Socialist Party member Paul Kershaw, chair of the Unite housing workers' branch, spoke to Ed Spencer
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