An RCP member recently interviewed workers from the 2022 Felixstowe dock strikes – who were dismissed on the flimsiest of pretences. This scandal shows how far the bosses will go to defend their interests. The unions must respond in kind in the struggles to come.
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Unite’s elections last month saw a big swing for general secretary Sharon Graham’s slate. This is a small indication of the appetite for industrial militancy, among the ranks of the second biggest union in the country. It rests on the leadership now to unleash this mood.
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Nurses said they face horrific racist slurs while at work, and according to new research carried out by the Royal College of Nursing incidents have surged by 78% in the last four years
Alan Jones, 59, was sacked following a surveillance operation that wrongly accused him of working while on sick leave
Writing for The Mirror, Unite general secretary Sharon Graham said Labour has lost touch with voters after becoming 'unmoored from its history and the working class'
Over 80 tanker drivers and airfield operators who provide refuelling services for airlines who fly into and out of Aberdeen, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Inverness, Kirkwall , Sumburgh and Stornoway have won a 4.2 per cent wage backdated to April. A five per cent increase to shift allowances and overtime rates was also successfully negotiated. The Trade […]
Two weeks ago, Unite voted to cut affiliation to Labour by 40 percent. As we wrote in issue 44 of The Communist, this is a step in the right direction – however, the trade union leaders have yet to break decisively with the government, and take the path of militant opposition.
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Over 200 Unite members across the Highlands and Islands Airport Limited (HIAL) Group have accepted a new pay deal boosting jobs, pay and conditions. The pay deal secured by Unite delivers a four per cent increase in 2025-26 backdated to April last year, followed by a 3.5 per cent increase over the next year from […]
Unite explained its affiliation will be reduced by 40%, or £580,000, adding that the actions of Labour against the Birmingham bin workers will 'not continue to be tolerated'.
Piles of rubbish still plague areas in Small Heath and other Birmingham suburbs (Picture: Jeremy Selwyn)
Walking past rows of bin bags in Birmingham is inevitably going to trigger a bout of déjà vu.
The West Midlands city has been plagued by rubbish, rats and recrimination since bin workers began an all-out strike a year ago today.
There is no end in sight to the paralysis, with both sides…
Next week marks the first anniversary of the mass walkout that crippled Birmingham’s bin collections. It led to mountains of waste piling up in the city’s streets and fears of a public health crisis
Birmingham City Council has been granted a High Court injunction banning protests outside its waste depots as the city's all-out bin strike approaches its first anniversary
Starmer’s government has been riddled with crises through February. At this point, you would hope to see Britain’s trade union leaders on the offensive. Alas, blinkered by their reformist approach, their response has been very limited.
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Desperate to wrap up the heroic eleven-month bin strikes, believing it will save councillors’ skins at May’s local elections, Birmingham City Council are now going for an injunction against megapickets. Defend the right to protest with militant union action!
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