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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.
28 March 2018
Liverpool Uni staff set to fight 220 job losses
The University of Liverpool has announced 220 redundancies. Vice-Chancellor Janet Beer is also head of Universities UK, the body trying to carry out colossal cuts to university workers' pensions, writes Hugh Caffrey, North West Socialist Party.
21 March 2018
Hull college workers ballot for action against mass redundancies
Hull College workers are balloting for strike action to stop devastating management plans for mass redundancies
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.
24 January 2018
Brum care workers protest council attacks
Picketers and their supporters demonstrated outside Birmingham council house on 20 January. Socialist Party and Socialist Students members joined over 100 people gathered at Victoria square to stand up to the latest council attacks against the homecare workers.
13 December 2017
Academic staff at the University of Brighton who walked out to defend two members of staff threatened with redundancy on 23 and 24 November have won
29 November 2017
Brighton Uni lecturers strike against job cuts
A lunchtime walkout preceded a full day of action, after a magnificent 85% vote in favour of striking against forced redundancies
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
18 October 2017
North London hospital workers fight cuts and job losses
Porters and domestics - members of the GMB union - at the North Middlesex hospital, facing the threat of redundancies and pay cuts, organised a spirited protest with a barbecue outside the hospital on 12 October.
18 October 2017
Nationalise to save jobs at BAE Systems
Arms manufacturer BAE Systems has announced that up to 2,000 jobs will be cut in locations across the UK. These job cuts will have a devastating effect on the lives of workers losing their livelihood but will also have a wider impact on the local economy.
6 September 2017
Argos workers, members of Unite the Union, have finished a three week period of strikes over issues around relocation and redundancies
31 May 2017
Student occupation at Chelsea College of Arts
University management rethinks restructure: Eight fine art research staff have been made redundant, and university management has been emailing all staff offering 'voluntary redundancies'
26 April 2017
Usdaw ADM 2017: Left challenge needed to end assault on retail jobs and conditions
In 2016 many changes were made within the big four supermarkets as they adapted to falling sales. The Coop, Sainsburys, Morrisons and Tesco all saw many store closures and thousands of jobs lost.
26 April 2017
Forest Hill School demonstration
200 staff and parents marched through the streets of Catford in support of Forest Hill School, Lewisham, south London on 22 April
12 April 2017
Schools are under the greatest threat for more than a generation and an equally powerful response is needed. In the next couple of months, the scale of the cuts will be evident
12 April 2017
Action against cuts at Solent University
Management at Solent University is rattled and failing to cover up its plans for extensive cuts and redundancies. Already staff in the UCU and Unison unions have voted 92% in favour of 'no confidence' in the vice-chancellor, who is paid £300,000 a year.
1 February 2017
Government attack on DWP job centres and offices
As part of the Tory offensive against the public sector, the chancellor has announced a 20% reduction in Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) offices, and more jobcentres to share sites in local authority premises, to deliver 30% savings on estates costs. This fits in with the approaching end of the contract with the company which owns the DWP estate.
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.
30 November 2016
Durham teaching assistants determined to win
Durham teaching assistants took another two days of strike action on 23 and 24 November. A hundred schools were picketed. On 23 November over 1,000 teaching assistants descended on Durham with public street protests and a march.
9 November 2016
Newcastle council cuts: opportunity for trade union fightback
Newcastle residents and council staff have borne the brunt of Tory austerity. £200 million of central government funding has been stripped from the cash-starved council since 2010. An important refuge for women and children fleeing domestic crises is slated for closure.
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