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20 March 2019
End austerity. Fight for a living wage!
The chancellor's spring statement signaled a continued squeeze on low-income families.
20 March 2019
PCS: Vote Yes to strike for better pay
125,000 PCS members across the civil service and related public bodies are being asked to vote Yes in the national ballot on pay.
13 March 2019
PCS union elections: Huge support for Chris Baugh
The PCS civil servants' union elects its assistant general secretary (AGS) every five years and its national executive committee annually. The ballot for these positions takes place 16 April to 19 May.
6 March 2019
MPs have given themselves a 2.7% pay increase. It doesn't sound much, but for them it means a rise of over £2,000 a year - more than many members of civil servants' union PCS take home in a month.
6 March 2019
The Socialist spoke with a shop worker and union member, Olivia, about her conditions at work.
6 March 2019
Trade union action to end low pay now!
Poverty pay for 1.2 million public sector workers. 2.7% pay rise for MPs: More than one million public sector workers are paid less than the minimum amount needed to make ends meet, as set by the Living Wage Foundation. They calculate this as £9 an hour, or £10.55 in London.
27 February 2019
The recent indicative strike ballot by the National Education Union should prepare the ground for a serious confrontation with the government
27 February 2019
University and College Union: anti-union laws frustrate strike ballot again
We cannot be discouraged, but should continue to put forward local demands
20 February 2019
Unite the Union has launched a pay campaign targeting GLL. The company, operating under brand name 'Better', competes for leisure and library contracts around the country.
20 February 2019
PCS Left Unity must unite on pay and elections
Forty years of union activists' work, building the broad left of the civil servants' union PCS Left Unity - and democratising the union, is being put at risk by the divisive and sectarian antics of the Socialist Workers Party (SWP) and Socialist View group.
20 February 2019
Leicester college pay strike goes on
After their successful one-day strike on 6 February, staff from both sites at WQE college in Leicester struck again on 13-14 February.
13 February 2019
Workplace and union news in brief
Glasgow strike victory; Bradford bus victory; union action in Hackney; oil tanker strike; Irish nurses strike; home care doorstepping; Woolwich ferry walkout
13 February 2019
Fight for a socialist-led PCS - fight to win the national pay campaign
The strike ballot's key demand is a 10% pay rise -and we need a socialist leadership to deliver it
6 February 2019
College lecturers strike for a pay rise
Reports of college strikes around the country for better pay.
30 January 2019
Liverpool Travelodge digger wrecking
Footage of a disgruntled construction worker, owed £600 by his employer, smashing the reception of a newly built Liverpool Travelodge with his digger has gone around the world. It has attracted humorous comments, condemnation and some sympathy.
23 January 2019
Bristol Deliveroo workers walk out
Bristol Deliveroo workers took strike action on the evening of Friday 18 January
23 January 2019
Unison union higher education conference: a missed opportunity to develop a fighting strategy
What's necessary is a fighting and democratic leadership to develop a clear strategy for the pay battle
16 January 2019
UCU: Vote Yes and Yes in the higher education pay and equality ballot
In October we voted by 70% for strike action - but Tory anti-union laws mean we don't have a legal mandate
9 January 2019
Solid strike by Arriva bus drivers
650 bus drivers, members of Unite the Union employed by Arriva, commenced a week-long strike on 6 January in a dispute over low pay. Drivers based at Darlington, Durham, Redcar and Stockton believe they are the second-lowest paid Arriva bus drivers in the country.
9 January 2019
'Fat Cat Friday' shows where all the money's gone
I hadn't even received my first paycheque of the new year when the average chief executive of a FTSE 100 company had already 'earned' more than my entire annual salary - in less than three days!
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