8 March 2018

Woolwich ferry workers win automation campaign

The delivery of new, hybrid boats will make a number of jobs on the ferry no longer necessary

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24 January 2018

£2m to remove Grenfell-type cladding: residents to get bill

No charges to residents! Cladding off now!: Residents in the 'Citiscape' housing complex in Croydon, south London, have learnt that tests revealed the cladding on their block poses the same fire hazard as Grenfell Tower.

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27 September 2017

Food processing workers vote for action against miserly bosses

Leicester Socialist Party and the National Shop Stewards Network (NSSN) attended an emergency branch meeting for workers from Tulip, a food processing plant in Coalville. The members present on 24 September voted unanimously to ballot for industrial action due to a series of abuses by their employers.

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30 August 2017

The Socialist inbox

Do you have something to say? Letters to the Socialist's editors

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9 August 2017

Bin workers - fifth week of strike action

Birmingham bin workers are angry that their council has forced them into more action

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30 June 2017

Bin workers' anger boils over into strike action

Bin workers across Birmingham left work to begin the first in a series of strikes

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15 February 2017

Toxic fracking could start in England in 2017

It appears very likely that fracking is about to start in England in 2017

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1 February 2017

UK textile workers on £3 an hour!

The Guardian and BBC news have exposed garment manufacturers in Leicester employing thousands of workers on £3 an hour, less than half the minimum wage.

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14 December 2016

Amazon workers living in tents

In the latest shocking revelations about online retail giant Amazon, accused of "intolerable working conditions," workers were apparently found sleeping in tents near its Glasgow depot.

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12 December 2016

Bin workers strike against draconian management

130 Doncaster waste transfer workers struck on 12 December over a 'draconian' management style and the victimisation and sacking of two colleagues.

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15 November 2016

Mass prison officer walkout over health and safety

The last issue of the Socialist published an article by a prison officer detailing the reasons for the crisis in the prisons and calling for action. On 15 November action was taken.

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9 November 2016

Action needed to defend workers at the sharp end of prisons crisis

The latest national statistics on safety in our prison system were released recently. These quarterly figures have been breaking records and setting new "unprecedented highs" systematically since 2010 - a year which 'coincidentally' ties in with the culling of 7,000 prison officers' jobs.

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26 October 2016

Crossrail sparks get organised

Hundreds of construction electricians crowded into the main conference room at Unite's national headquarters on 19 October to hammer out an action plan on the massive Crossrail project - the biggest publicly-financed scheme in Western Europe.

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19 October 2016

Aberfan: a disaster that should never have happened

50th anniversary: It's a name as resonant with tragedy for working class people in South Wales as Hillsborough is for Liverpool.

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5 October 2016

Workplace news in brief

Short reports on some of the latest trade union struggles. Virgin Trains strike; Ritzy cinema strike; Newsquest journalists' strike.

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28 September 2016

Them & Us

It's one world for the super-rich, and another one for the rest of us including pension plunderers and coaster crimes.

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7 September 2016

Rail workers fighting back!

The disputes the RMT has been involved in this summer are all tied to the bosses' drive to implement cutbacks

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27 July 2016

Workplace news in brief

Short reports on some of the latest trade union struggles. Honda workers walk out; JCB staff strike ballot.

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27 July 2016

End Victorian working conditions

Trade union fightback needed: The report into Sports Direct's working practices by a House of Commons select committee shows the much acclaimed protection of workers' employment rights by the EU is worthless without the traditional workers' organisations - the trade unions - being strong enough to enforce legislation.

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1 June 2016

Thomas Cook cabin crew to strike over breaks

In a fortnight of headlines littered with outbreaks of industrial disputes, 25 May didn't disappoint. Thomas Cook cabin crew in Unite the Union voted by 74% to enter in to dispute with their employer.

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