Fighting Academies in Brent A short blog detailing to the nascent and so far trade union dominated fight against academy conversion in Brent, London.
Anti-academy strike at Montgomery Primary school Staff at Montgomery Primary in Birmingham were on strike yesterday over plans to turn the school into an academy.
Huge strike against pension cuts on the way A massive November walkout of up to 3 million public sector workers is now on the cards as the UK's largest unions announce their intention to…
Lindsey: Total’s counter-attack ends in defeat - Mouvement Communiste The second part of Mouvement Communiste's analysis of the Lindsey engineering construction strikes…
Burnsall strike: with friends like these, who needs racists? Subversion criticise the Burnsall strike support group for making the dispute into a racial issue as opposed to a class issue. The article is an example of 'anti-racism' and 'anti-nationalism' turning into a refusal to discuss racial divisions within the working class at all, which we strongly disagree with but reproduce for reference. See our archive on the Burnsall strike.
UK workplace news roundup, August 2010 Recent industrial news from the UK, including transport strikes in Liverpool, walkouts at West Lothian Council and Southampton libraries, and…
Strikes at Culture & Sport Glasgow Workers at leisure centres, art galleries, community centres and other cultural sites in Glasgow have taken part in two days of strike action…
Burnsall strike 1992 - European Counter Network Report on a 1992 strike at a metal finishing company following a worker suffering miscarriage, after management refused her light duties.
Energy workers to ballot for strike action across Britain Construction and maintenance staff at the giant petrochemical complex in Grangemouth are to be…
Striking oil workers burn dismissal letters In a show of defiance, fired workers burn dismissal letters and continue their wildcat stoppage. Includes a timeline of events.
Interview with a disillusioned UK ex-full-time union official ‘RPG’ is an anarchist who worked for trade unions from 1986 until the spring of 2007. He talks to…
Local government unions submit derisory pay claim UNISON, Unite and the GMB request a cost of living pay rise for council workers for 2009-10 of just 0.9%.
