Image The lump: an heretical analysis - Dave Lamb 1974 pamphlet by Solidarity criticising the standard left and union response to "the lump": the paying of building workers by lump sums for a job…
Image Rank and file or broad left? A short history of the Building Worker Group Pamphlet about the UK rank-and-file Building Worker Group within the UCATT union, published as issue…
Image Pay strikes brewing in education and construction The past few days have seen teachers set to vote again on strike action in an ongoing dispute over a sub-inflation pay offer while thousands of…
Image April 24 – hundreds of thousands to walk out On Thursday April 24 thousands of civil servants, coastguards, council workers, FE lecturers and charity workers will join a national teachers…
Image 20,000 Birmingham council workers to strike 20,000 GMB, UNISON, AMICUS, TGWU (Unite) and UCATT members will strike alongside teachers and lecturers against council plans to use ‘Single…
Image UK building workers to prepare for 2012 Olympics The Olympics will bring much new construction work to London, and some union activists look to the opportunity for a greater say both in the…
Image Construction: Struggle at Laing O’Rourke, Britain, 2004 The following article provides a short summary about a strike of building workers in London in…
Image 1999: Dahl Jenson construction strike Immigrants demonstrated their willingness, when asked, to support British workers in struggle in this victorious strike of 300 building workers…
Heathrow: Three day strike at Terminal 5 Construction workers for Laing O'Rourke at the Heathrow Terminal 5 site are likely to begin a three day strike from Tuesday morning at 6.45 until the same time Friday morning over their ongoing pay dispute.
Strike action hits new Heathrow terminal 5 site Nearly 1,000 workers building a £4. 2bn terminal at Heathrow airport went on a 24-hour strike today.
Laing workers to strike at Terminal 5 Hundreds of workers employed by Laing O'Rourke at Terminal 5 will stage a two-week overtime ban and strike several times in December and January.
Wildcat action brewing over the Laing O'Rourke 'contrick' Workers employed by construction giant Laing O'Rourke are refusing the company's new pay and conditions deal.