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9 February 2022
'I'm dreading trying to live on a nurse's salary'
As a student nurse in London, I'm living in an expensive city on a paltry student loan during my three years of training.
2 February 2022
NI rise piled onto shoulders of the lowest paid
The working class is already suffering from spiralling prices and stagnating wages, but there will be no let-up around the corner
2 February 2022
Why I joined: I'm tired of austerity and status quo
Why I joined the Socialist Party: I am tired of austerity and the squeeze on the working class and lower middle class. What happened to the concept of 'quality of life', where families have the right to a fair standard of living, an
2 February 2022
A cavalcade circled McDonald's in Sheffield on 30 January with car horns blaring, coloured smoke flares, banners, loudspeakers and vocal support from around 60 supporters who joined couriers opposing the 'offer' of a pay rise of minus 25% by Stuart which employs Just Eat couriers
Sheffield Just Eat strikers step up action and hold mass rally, photo by Alistair Tice
26 January 2022
Sheffield Just Eat strikers step up action and hold mass rally: Over 100 trade unionists and students in Sheffield rallied in support of the Just Eat delivery drivers on their 31st day of targeted strike action against company pay cuts. Photo by Alistair Tice
26 January 2022
On our Socialist Party campaign stalls about rising gas and electricity prices, we have spoken to lots of people concerned and angry about the situation
26 January 2022
Education: Workload and inflation goes up, incomes fall
This term has started just as last term finished: school staff under intolerable pressure from incessant workload and Covid absences
26 January 2022
10,000 tube workers vote to strike - don't make workers pay for TfL funding crisis
Transport union RMT members working for London Underground have voted overwhelmingly for strike action to defend jobs, conditions and our pensions.
26 January 2022
Strike action by Carmarthenshire winter gritters wins concessions from council
Winter gritters working for Carmarthenshire County Council have won big concessions from the council which will now have to adhere to an agreement to pay decent shift allowances that it has been trying to cut back.
26 January 2022
Social care providers put profit before residents' needs - nationalise care now
Five years ago, I wrote for the Socialist explaining what it was like working in care, the limited time we had to get people washed, dressed, and to help them eat and drink.
25 January 2022
Nearly 600 health workers at Bart's health trust are striking for fair pay, and against increasing workloads and bullying.
19 January 2022
Tories hand cash to private health profiteers
Nationalise private health and big pharma: Private hospitals are set to receive up to £525 million of public money in a deal negotiated by a Tory minister
19 January 2022
Scunthorpe scaffs resume indefinite strike action
The 61 scaffolders employed by contractor Actavo, working on the British Steel works at Scunthorpe, will resume indefinite strike action on 26 January
19 January 2022
S Yorks Stagecoach strike results in "huge pay win"
After three-and-a-half weeks of strike action, 560 Stagecoach bus workers across South Yorkshire have voted to accept what their Unite trade union has described as a "huge pay win" of over a £1-an-hour increase, amounting to a 10.7% rise
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
19 January 2022
Tory vaccine sacking threat set to deepen NHS staffing crisis
86,000 NHS staff face the sack in April if they do not have the Covid-19 vaccine.
19 January 2022
Somers Forge workers continue pay strike
Workers at Somers Forge in Halesowen took their fourth day of strike action in their current dispute for a living pay increase - and also the fourth ever in the company's 155-year history!
19 January 2022
Waltham Forest bin workers in Unite and GMB unions protested on the steps of the town hall on 13 January against bad pay and conditions
19 January 2022
Bus driver Tracey Scholes reinstated at Go North West
Bus driver Tracey Scholes has been reinstated at Go North West. The campaign won after supporters of Unite member Tracey were out in full force on 11 January to demand her reinstatement against the blind
19 January 2022
Royal Mail: Unofficial walkouts precede bigger battle to come on pay and workload
A number of Royal Mail delivery offices have taken unofficial industrial action since the New Year, all of which are linked to major national issues taking place within Royal Mail since the 'Pathway to Change' national agreement.
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