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31 May 2018
Bristol South Socialist Party: How can workers' jobs be protected?
After the collapse of Carillion, Toys R Us, Maplins, the loss of jobs at RBS and Centrica (British Gas), come to a discussion on this urgent question
11 April 2018
Gender pay gap figures show need for trade union action
Figures released by 10,000 large companies reveal what most of us already knew: there is a huge gender pay gap in Britain. The median across the firms is 9.8% - but some had gaps of over 70%
4 April 2018
Retail crunch: even giants not immune as 21,000 jobs disappear
Fight for living wages and public ownership: A recovery in the retail sector requires a recovery in the pockets of ordinary workers
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.
7 March 2018
Toys R Us, Maplin: worsening retail crisis claims more jobs
Trade unions must fight for public ownership: Big high street retailers Toys R Us and Maplin have gone under, with a number of other familiar names like Mothercare rumoured to follow
31 January 2018
Supermarket's slash jobs - union fightback needed
Two of so-called 'Big Four' supermarkets - Tesco and Sainsbury's - have announced job losses running into the thousands.
31 January 2018
A demonstration called by the transport union RMT took place outside Liverpool Town Hall ahead of a meeting of Merseyrail stakeholders on 25 January to show the incredible public support in favour of keeping the guards on Merseyrail trains
19 January 2018
Carillion and the construction industry
The following letter by Socialist Party member and construction worker Jimmy Tyson was published in the Liverpool Echo earlier this week
13 December 2017
Retail sector crunch: nationalise to save jobs
Toys R Us plans to close a third of its stores. Asda wants to downgrade hundreds of shopfloor supervisors. Britain's largest tobacco distributor Palmer & Harvey has gone into administration.
6 December 2017
Plans to launch no-cuts campaign at Kirklees College
A 'financial notice to improve' was issued to the college for "inadequate financial health"
6 December 2017
Royal wedding exposes them-and-us visa system
If you're very wealthy you can buy your way in - but for ordinary people, visa applications don't have many fairy-tale endings
6 December 2017
RBS to sack 1,000: nationalise the banks
The Royal Bank of Scotland wants to cut 259 branches and 1,000 jobs - while the Tories plan to sell it at a £26 billion loss
30 November 2017
Victory: Glenfield Children's Heart Centre saved!
The proposal to end surgery at the centre has been dropped
22 November 2017
Scotland: BiFab workers' occupation and march secures jobs and pay guarantee
Workers at the three threatened wind turbine construction yards in Fife have won a guarantee that their jobs and wages will be secured - at least until April 2018
15 November 2017
Plymouth PCS members fight relocation threat
On 6 November PCS members took strike action to prevent a relocation which would likely result in around 50 redundancies
15 November 2017
Is cuts-making Preston 'beating Tory austerity'?
Fight for no-cuts budgets: Labour-controlled Preston Council has received press coverage as "beating Tory austerity" (Mirror), "where workers are in control of wealth" (Guardian) and "Jeremy Corbyn's model town" (Economist)
10 November 2017
Strikers picket the South Western Railway network
Pickets stretched from London to Bournemouth and the Isle of Wight
8 November 2017
Bosses say 217 years to close pay gap - workers' struggle can close it now!
This is the first time figures have shown the situation is going backwards
1 November 2017
PCS pay cap ballot closes soon
The civil servants' union PCS is stepping up its pay campaign by holding a consultative ballot, timed to coincide with the autumn budget
1 November 2017
Unions must fight workplace mental health crisis
300,000 a year forced to leave work: Workers with mental health problems are leaving their jobs at a rate of 6% a year
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