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26 January 2022
Sheffield Just Eat strikers step up action and hold mass rally
"Just Eat-Stuart, you're no good, pay your workers, what you should!" was the chant as over 100 trade unionists and students in Sheffield rallied in support of delivery drivers on their 31st day of targeted strike action against company pay cuts
26 January 2022
Worksop Wincanton logistics workers begin ninth week of strike action
450 Unite members are in their ninth week of strike action against Wincanton - the logistics company running the vast Worksop site for B&Q.
19 January 2022
Sheffield Just Eat couriers speak about strike
Just Eat takeaway food delivery drivers have been striking against pay cuts in Sheffield since 6 December in what has become the longest continuous such action in the gig economy in the UK
Coventry bin workers on strike, January 2022, photo by Dave Nellist
12 January 2022
Socialist Party members joined the picket lines of striking bin workers in Coventry fighting for better pay. January 2022
12 January 2022
South Yorkshire bus strikes spreading and getting stronger
After two one-week strikes before Christmas, and now indefinite strike action since the New Year, the South Yorkshire Stagecoach busworkers' strikes are getting stronger
15 December 2021
Sheffield couriers escalate and spread action
Food delivery couriers working for Stuart Delivery (a subsidiary of DPD Group and a subcontractor of JustEat) are into their second week of indefinite strike action in Sheffield.
15 December 2021
Union rep says: "We're stronger than we have ever been before".
15 December 2021
Worksop Wincanton depot strike builds
After a week on strike, followed by a week's overtime ban, 460 Unite members at B&Q's main depot in Worksop are back out on strike for another week.
8 December 2021
Thousands of Tesco warehouse workers to strike
Supermarket giant Tesco is set to be hit by a series of strikes at its distribution centres in the run-up to Christmas.
8 December 2021
Mail attacks tube strikers by stealing socialist's image
The Daily Mail's distain for working-class people will not surprise many of our readers, neither will its shoddy journalism
1 December 2021
South Yorkshire Stagecoach drivers strike against measly 1% pay offer
Stagecoach bosses in South Yorkshire have always tried to play off one depot against another, with different settlement dates and pay rates across Barnsley, Rotherham and the two Sheffield garages
17 November 2021
Leeds cab drivers protest against taxi rank move
Over 50 taxi drivers protested in Leeds on 10 November, against proposals by Network Rail and West Yorkshire combined authority to relocate the hackney carriage taxi rank to a space beneath the station
20 October 2021
Gwent valleys Stagecoach bus drivers strike for fair pay
It was pouring with rain but pickets had been out since 4am this morning at Blackwood, Cwmbran and Brynmawr Stagecoach depots fighting for a decent pay rise.
13 October 2021
Tough for some: Life is tough for everybody. The government cut in Universal Credit is forcing tens of thousands into poverty at a time when prices are set to rise. People will have to choose between heating the house
29 September 2021
Queues at petrol stations, fuel bills rising, the risk of empty supermarket shelves for Christmas - all symptoms of a sick system.
29 September 2021
Driver shortages - a view from the inside
Millions of workers have been travelling to work, hoping that they have enough fuel to get home or complete the school run
22 September 2021
Leeds taxi drivers and disabled passengers unite to fight station changes
The anger of taxi and private hire drivers at the Labour-run council is palpable. Socialist Party members joined drivers in the Unite union, disabled taxi users and Unite Community activists to protest
15 September 2021
What's behind the worker shortages, and what can be done about it?
'Job openings' are at 1.66 million, according to the Recruitment and Employment Confederation
11 August 2021
Night tube strike suspended to allow talks - scrap compulsory duties!
Strikes by drivers on London Underground (LU), that were due to take place between 3-6 August, were suspended to allow more talks on resolving the dispute at conciliation service Acas.
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