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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.
26 July 2017
Short reports on some of the latest trade union struggles including a job centre walkout in Sheffield and the UCU banned from a meeting in Teesside.
1 March 2017
Northern region Socialist Party conference
Our Northern regional conference set the tone for our work in the next period
7 December 2016
TAs force Labour to suspend pay cuts
Durham teaching assistants have won a significant battle in their campaign against pay cuts
16 November 2016
Durham teaching assistants strike: 2,000 walk out
Almost 2,000 teaching assistants (TAs), Unison and ATL members, in County Durham struck on 8 and 9 November against the Labour council that is proposing to cut their wages.
9 November 2016
Far-right given short shrift in Darlington
A handful of fascists from nearby Bishop Auckland had invited Nazi groups from across the UK to march in Darlington on 5 November. They were confronted by 200 local people.
16 March 2016
Big boosts at Northern Socialist Party conference
The Socialist Party northern regional conference acted as a political springboard, giving us a big boost for the tasks ahead, writes Elaine Brunskill, Northern Socialist Party secretary.
27 January 2016
Red doors and wristbands scandal
Refugees and asylum seekers in Middlesbrough, Teesside, have been experiencing daily abuse and attack. Their homes were marked out with red-painted doors. Meanwhile in Cardiff, a private housing firm has been marking the asylum seekers it accommodates with compulsory red wristbands.
25 November 2015
Steelworkers demand government action to Save Our Steel
Hundreds of steelworkers from across all the steelmaking heartlands of Britain - Wales, Scotland and the north of England - took to the streets of Sheffield on 21 November to demand government action to save the steel industry.
21 October 2015
How can workers resist capitalist cuts and closures?
A stuttering world economy has jeopardised steel making in the UK. But workers do not have to accept the inevitability of closures and job losses
14 October 2015
Short reports on some of the latest trade union struggles. Redcar steel plant closure, campaigning to stop the Trade Union Bill, junior doctors protest against contract changes.
7 October 2015
Steely anger in Redcar as plant is mothballed
The last steel plant on Teesside, the second largest in Europe, is to be mothballed resulting in the loss of up 2,200 jobs.
30 September 2015
Short reports on some of the latest trade union struggles. Steel plant closure, bin pay freeze beaten, victimised postal union rep, printers' strike.
16 September 2015
Support Teesside construction workers: Pay the rate!
It's 5:15am and traffic is already starting to back up due to an ongoing protest by construction workers at the massive Wilton chemical plant on Teesside
14 September 2015
Teesside: Pay the Rate protest
Friday protests of construction workers have been restarted at the Energy from Waste plant at Wilton
2 September 2015
'Pay the rate' construction protests continue on Teesside
Protests have continued at the Wilton complex in Teesside over pay. SITA Sembcorp has laid off workers and replaced them with contractors who employ workers paid less than trade union agreed rates.
8 October 2012
Hospital staff in Stockton and Hartlepool threatened with worse terms and conditions
NHS bosses in North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust are due to sack all 5,500 staff and reemploy them on inferior contracts
25 May 2011
Tata jobs: Tata Steel, the world's biggest steelmaker, is to slash another 1,500 jobs at plants in Scunthorpe and Teesside. This latest blow to jobs in the north east is on top of the 2,000 axed in 2009...
Corus steel workers on the Unite jobs demonstration in Birmingham, photo Paul Mattsson
22 September 2010
The recent sale by Corus of the steel plant on Teesside to the Thai company SSI is welcome news but in reality the situation should never have got to this stage, writes A socialist steel worker.
9 September 2010
Les Bayliss, right-wing candidate for Unite general secretary, is claiming in an email circular that the sale of Corus' Teesside plant to the Thai steel maker SSI is proof that quiet lobbying by union officials, not militant trade unionism, is the way to protect jobs in manufacturing, writes Socialist members of Unite.
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