21 October 2024
Food manufacturer Oscar Mayer wants to fire and rehire workers at its Wrexham factory to reduce wages. The workers began a 4-week strike in September, extended when the firm refused to negotiate.
21 October 2024
The Employment Rights Bill, published on 10 October, does not repeal all the anti-union acts enforced by Thatcher and her successors, Tory and Labour. And the promises of change don’t stand up to scrutiny.
11 October 2024
Pensioners held rallies in London and Belfast on Monday 7 October for the restoration of the winter fuel payment. As well as the direct financial effect those in fuel poverty will suffer worse health, increasing demand on the NHS
11 October 2024
A letter from a reader in Scotland reflects on gifts of clothing to Keir Starmer and others in the Labour leadership and the theme of clothing in Macbeth.
11 October 2024
The assault on British industry in the name of the environment and net zero continues. The latest step is halting the development of a coal mine in Cumbria, aided by the courts and the new government.
11 October 2024
Electricity imports from continental Europe have hit a record high. Britain increasingly depends on undersea cables, with risks to both continuity of supply and prices.
11 October 2024
Escalating military action in the Middle East rightly worries British workers. But nothing good comes out of the involvement of our leaders in these conflicts. We should simply say “stay out”.
9 September 2024
Creative workers in Scotland celebrate reversal of budget cuts by the SNP administration, but warn that the campaign to sustain arts must continue.
9 September 2024
The final report from the Grenfell Tower Inquiry says that the deaths in the fire were all avoidable. It sets out how that came about and makes many recommendations to improve safety, which need to be acted on.
The massive increase in immigration – both legal and illegal – has formed a constant background to events in Britain for over two decades. This is no accident.
The new government rules out rejoining the EU, but acts as if it wants to adopt by stealth all those things British workers rejected in 2016 – above all a return to free movement of labour, open borders.
The government has imposed a pay settlement on the majority of NHS workers in England. There is no option to accept or reject. This inevitably raises the stakes for future pay claims.
On Saturday 3 August workers marched past the Grangemouth oil and gas refinery, near Falkirk, Scotland. This was a further boost to their campaign to save their jobs at the site.
Some groups of doctors have settled pay claims for now. But others are fighting for rises.
What do workers in and outside of higher education think is its purpose in our society? And are they prepared to fight for it?
Public services are in a sorry state, and the new government has other priorities, like devolution and backing wars. Our focus must be on what change is needed in our public services – and how we can make it come about…
A snapshot of the condition of our country shows the scale of the problem facing us and also suggests a path to return Britain to progress…
The headlong rush into what are still unreliable and inadequate ‘green’ technologies is putting at risk the energy security that the country requires to maintain and develop modern life…
We look at some of the proposals from the Labour government. There’s little to benefit workers, and a great deal to cause real concern…
Train drivers’ union Aslef has reached agreement with the incoming Labour government to resolve a pay dispute in most of the passenger train operators. It has involved 18 days of strikes.
Farm incomes are falling, posing a threat to Britain’s food security. Official figures for England show a 19 per cent drop last year in the total income from farming to £4.5 billion.
Over 300 bus workers employed by First South West in depots across Somerset and Cornwall have taken strike action several times to defend their pay and conditions.
Comedy Unleashed – a home for those who leave self-censorship at the door – has finally made it to Manchester. Workers interviews the Manchester residents who worked to make it happen…
An exhibition at the Imperial War Museum North, in Manchester, gathers thought-provoking oral recollections from across the political divide…
Campaigns and direct action by workers in the 19th century saved Wanstead Flats on the edge of east London as an open space for the public…
26 August 2024
Redbridge refuse collectors have won a new and improved contract. They had already taken strike action and were about to do so again.
26 August 2024
Faced with cuts that threaten their future and that of their company, musicians in the Welsh National Opera have voted overwhelmingly for potential strike action. They are facing cuts that threaten their future and that of their company.
26 August 2024
A vital programme for young artists in Wales faces closure. Musicians and college staff are campaigning against this.
26 August 2024
The new government is sticking to its energy policy guns with decisions likely to ruin North Sea oil and gas exploitation and risk Britain’s energy security.
