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11 July 2018
Big victory for Wigan NHS strike against privatisation
In an outstanding example of how privatisation in the NHS is not inevitable, striking workers in Wigan have forced their NHS trust to drop all plans for outsourcing cleaning, catering and domestic services.
4 July 2018
Bin workers take strike action after talks with Kirklees council collapse
Kirklees bin workers are striking action from 3 to 9 July against a bullying manager
27 June 2018
NHS Mid Yorkshire strike suspended
Management has agreed to investigate keeping staff in the NHS pension scheme and direct employment, and suspended looking at inferior terms and conditions
27 June 2018
Do you have something to say? Letters to the Socialist's editors. Homelessness and housing costs; privatised rail chaos; Unison witch-hunter elected to council
27 June 2018
Unison union conference: delegates can't be cowed
The union's right-wing leadership sanitised the conference - but suffered several defeats at the hands of angry delegates
20 June 2018
Knowsley council pushed back on cuts and privatisation
The right-wing Labour group in Knowsley council, Merseyside, has been forced into a climbdown on two important measures.
13 June 2018
Health unions accept divisive NHS pay deal
The fact that 87% of voting members in GMB, one of the smaller health unions, rejected the deal shows what could be achieved had there been a united campaign to reject. Instead health unions have signed off for three years just as other public sector workers are gearing up to fight.
13 June 2018
Housing strike against individualised pay enters week two
Tower Hamlets Community Housing workers are in their second week of strike action organised by public service union Unison. Their new pay structure is not negotiated with the unions, but based on 'market testing'.
13 June 2018
NHS workers plan coordinated strikes across West Yorks against outsourcing
Four Yorkshire branches of health union Unison are balloting simultaneously for strikes against plans to transfer estates and facilities workers into separate companies - owned by NHS trusts, but outside the NHS.
6 June 2018
East London housing workers fight privatisation of pay
Tower Hamlets Unison members started strike action for fair pay on 4 June.
30 May 2018
Unison ballots workers at Yorkshire hospitals at risk of privatisation
Unison will soon be balloting hundreds of health workers at Huddersfield Royal Infirmary (HRI) and Calderdale Royal Hospital (CRH) at risk of being moved out of NHS employment
23 May 2018
College staff caught between the devil and the deep blue sea
In November 2016 workers at the Vine, a specialist education service, were transferred from Leeds City Council into Leeds City College.
11 April 2018
Taking the anti-austerity message to the chancellor's back yard
In one of the best local demos for many years, Surrey County Unison members turned out, alongside others
28 March 2018
Victimised recycling strikers uncowed as Hull strike wave builds
Bosses' suspension of two Hull recycling workers after they returned to work following a successful first week on strike is a clear attempt to intimidate the workforce into cancelling future action, writes Mick Whale, president, Hull trade union council.
22 March 2018
NHS pay: Reject the Tories' divide and rule offer
While Jeremy Hunt proudly endorsed the latest pay offer for NHS staff, the headline figure of 6.5% is not all it seems.
14 March 2018
Leicester: Blairites block Labour Party democracy
Like Newham's mayor Sir Robin Wales, Leicester has its very own Blairite mayor - Sir Peter Soulsby. And like Newham council, Leicester is dominated by the Labour Party - with 52 out of 54 councillors
9 March 2018
Leaked pay deal: fight for a genuine pay rise
NHS workers have reacted angrily to a Guardian headline: "NHS staff offered 6.5% pay rise over three years if they forfeit day's holiday"
7 March 2018
Despite sub-zero temperatures from the "Beast from the East" on the first morning of the strike and intimidating tactics from the local management, FCC recycling workers are standing firm
14 February 2018
Threat of action defeats pay cut at Surrey council
Organising works, we won and all members have received their full backdated pay
7 February 2018
Unison national women's conference
This year's Unison national women's conference (NWC) in Liverpool last week saw Socialist Party members playing a key role in initiating and organising the first 'Unison Action' fringe meeting to be held at a self-organised group conference.
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