Korean police fail to break Ssangyong factory occupation South Korean police were not able to carry through with a pledge to enter a Ssangyong Motor Co…
Record rise in UK unemployment total UK unemployment rose by a record 281,000 to 2.38 million in the three months to May, the Office for National Statistics has said. The jobless…
Visteon asks to pay millions in executive bonuses Visteon Corp., which moved last week to cut off retiree health-care benefits, has asked a bankruptcy judge to authorize up to $80 million in…
Queens University pushing for 150 redundancies News emerged today of plans by Queens University in Belfast to make 150 members of academic staff redundant.
Tube strike goes ahead as lawyers scrap deal Thousands of London Underground workers have launched a 48 hour strike against pay and job cuts.
Over half of UK workers experience attacks on pay or conditions According to the Keep Britain Working website, set up to promote the “innovative ways” that …
The struggle at Visteon, the union and the development of class consciousness, 2009 Joe Thorne from The Commune analyses the Ford Visteon workers occupation and dispute, the role of…
Report and reflections on the UK Ford-Visteon dispute 2009: a post-Fordist struggle A detailed account and analysis of the struggle of Ford-Visteon car manufacturing workers who…
Strikes and lockouts in South Korea As the economic recession hits South Korea, striking car workers have been locked out of their factory while earlier in the week construction…
The struggle against crisis: We can only rely on ourselves! This leaflet by KPK contains also a sketch of balance of power between proletariat and capital in Czech both now and during years before the crisis. It was distributed at unionist demo in May.
The recession: what it means for education This article summarises some of the issues facing the education sector and how they are more acute in times of recession, and was the result of…
Workers in South Korea respond to mass redundancies with strike action Workers at South Korean automaker Ssangyong Motor went on strike on Thursday in protest at plans for…
