Education sector promises historic strike action
A fresh wave of strike action is coming to Britain’s education sector, as school and university staff fight years of below-inflation pay deals and worsening conditions.
UK Strike Action: challenges faced from public opinion
Howard Green takes another look at the continual strike action in the UK, and analyses at how the public may feel
Tories continue with “Kremlin” slander against striking workers
Last week Nadhim Zahawi, Conservative Party Chairman, told nurses via Sophy Ridge’s Sky News programme that he felt striking was “the wrong thing to do” and insinuated that their upcoming industrial action this month would be playing into Vladimir Putin’s hands.
Secessio plebis: the ‘world’s first general strike’
Rowan Valvona, in the wave of mass industrial action across Britain, looks back in time to a momentous piece of working class history, and to what could be the world’s first general strike
The British Medical Association consider industrial action
If the Tory government doesn’t increase a 1% pay offer, senior doctors in England may refuse to do overtime. Due to a pay offer that the NHS workforce have labelled as a “slap in the face”, the threat of industrial action has developed following the Royal College of Nursing’s announcement that it would contemplate balloting for industrial action.
Hundreds of British Gas engineers face sacking
As nearly 500 British Gas engineers face sackings, it is becoming increasingly clear that both employers and the Tory government are using the COVID crisis to attack workers’ rights.
Royal Fail
Royal Mail has been in dispute with the Communication Workers Union (CWU) for over a year. In March this year, CWU members delivered a massive 94.5% YES vote in favour of strike action with a turnout of 63.4%, easily exceeding the requirements of Britain’s regressive trade union legislation for the third time in less than three years.
However, recognising the ongoing crisis and the key importance of their role, the CWU decided to postpone any industrial action until lockdown measures had passed.