Union officials walk out - against their own members
Submitted by Joseph Kay on May 30 2018 18:10
Officials of the education union UCU have downed tools and walked out - from their own annual congress.
Union suspends bin strike again
Submitted by QQ on Sep 25 2017 23:05
Unite union have suspended the bin strike again, after a court granted an interim injunction against the Birmingham council.
Council lies mean Brum bin strike extended til Christmas
Submitted by QQ on Sep 18 2017 13:41
Refuse collection workers in Birmingham have voted strongly in favour of extending strike action for a further three months.
All out! Birmingham bin strike back on
Submitted by Ed on Sep 1 2017 08:59
Bin workers in Birmingham are back on the picket line after the council went back on the agreement they reached with the union only two weeks ago.
Tribute to Ernesto Leal, a founder of the London migrant cleaners' movement
Tribute written by members of the Latin American Workers' Association (LAWAS) in 2009 after the death of Ernesto Leal (11 January 1938 - 22 October 2009), Chilean communist exile who eventually moved to London, working as a cleaner and founding LAWAS. In the same days of Leal's death, Unite the union purged LAWAS, leading cleaners to join the IWW and eventually founding IWGB and UVW, which continue to organise cleaners and other low-wage migrant workers in London's service sector. We republish it here from The Commune (now defunct) in light of the recent historic victories of migrant cleaners at LSE and SOAS.
Union claims victory as Birmingham bins strike suspended
Submitted by QQ on Aug 16 2017 13:49
Birmingham's two-month long bin strike has been suspended following talks between the council and the Unite union via conciliation service, ACAS, with the union declaring a victory for its members.
UK: A Promising Hospital Strike
Submitted by Fredo Corvo on Aug 6 2017 20:35
Since the Spring of this year in several London hospitals about 750 cleaners, security personnel and porters have been in dispute with their employer, Serco. They are part of the lowest paid workers in the U.K.
London Hospital Workers Strike over Low Pay
Submitted by RSBenedict on Jul 14 2017 04:52
Hundreds of domestic workers in four London hospitals are on strike to demand a 30p pay raise.
Responding to Evening Standard bollocks on the tube strike
Submitted by Ed on Jul 8 2015 22:21
A commuter's rant about the (unsurprisingly) anti-worker coverage of the tube strike by the Evening Standard.
Unison activists vote to reopen 2015 pay dispute
Submitted by Steven. on Mar 25 2015 00:29
In an almost unprecedented move, rank-and-file Unison representatives in councils and schools voted in a special conference earlier today to tear up the 2014-16 pay deal which union leaders drew up with Labour Party officials and submit a new pay claim on top.
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