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24 March 2021
Lessons of the 2011 pensions strike: when workers showed their power
In 2011, trade unionists demonstrated in their hundreds of thousands and then took strike action in defence of their pensions and against public service cuts
3 March 2021
Public sector workers respond to the budget
"The financial outlook is volatile." This (under)statement, in Essex County Council's budget document for 2021, could be the strapline for the future of all local government services.
2 December 2020
Unions must resist return to austerity
Chancellor Sunak's spending review should be a wake-up call to the trade union leaders. Even from the capitalists' point of view there was no immediate need to impose a pay freeze on 1.5 million public sector workers.
2 December 2020
Napo kickstarts fight against pay freeze
At my first meeting on the national executive committee (NEC) of probation union Napo, I put forward an emergency motion to launch a campaign against the pay freeze.
25 November 2020
Covid crisis: "We won't pay the price"
After giving Covid contracts worth billions to their cronies, the Tories announced yet another pay freeze for millions of public sector workers, and the scrapping of the planned increase in the minimum wage
Hugo Pierre, speaking at Socialism 2020, 21st November 2020
22 November 2020
4 November 2020
Why the Socialist Party is backing Hugo Pierre for Unison general secretary
On the 28 October, 1.4 million ballot papers will go out to Unison public sector union members to decide who should be the new general secretary and lead the union.
7 October 2020
Germany: "Heroes" strike to demand a pay rise
Public sector workers in Germany's hospitals, kindergartens, civil service, refuse operations, as well as public transport workers, have started 'warning strikes' in support of their wage demands.
24 June 2020
South Africa: Building jobs and living wage campaign
On 17 June, hundreds of workers marched in Johannesburg, South Africa, demanding permanent jobs and a monthly living wage of R12,500 (£580).
3 April 2019
PCS elections: Support socialist candidates
National elections in the PCS civil servants' union start on 16 April and finish 9 May. They are for the national executive committee (NEC), which is elected annually, and the assistant general secretary (AGS) position - elected for a five-year term
3 April 2019
Probation privatisation failure
"Irredeemably flawed" is the verdict of Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Probation, five years on from the break-up and part-privatisation of the service.
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.
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.
20 February 2019
Harrowing accounts of austerity at Unison women's conference
Delegates at the women's conference of public sector union Unison gave harrowing accounts of living their lives in debt, and how they have been reduced to choosing between eating and heating while trying to put food on the table for their families.
24 October 2018
Health services in meltdown - fight to save our NHS
In the last two years, infant mortality rates in England and Wales have risen for the first time in over a century.
29 August 2018
NHS services are showing the strain of cuts, privatisation and insufficient funding.
20 August 2018
The dispute within the left of Britain's largest civil service union raises key issues for the whole labour movement. Above all, the need for democratic, lay-member control of fighting trade unions.
25 July 2018
The case for socialist nationalisation
The Alternative Models of Ownership report, launched in June 2017, was commissioned by shadow chancellor John McDonnell.
20 June 2018
DWP surrenders to union pressure - now vote Yes to smash pay cap for everyone
On 14 June senior managers in the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) caved in to the PCS civil servants' union's demands that they pay the contractual 'employee deal' pay rise on time in July.
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