Strikes against low pay at Leeds-based bus manufacturer Optare to extend into 2021
Optare bus. Image credit via charles cars, CC BY On Monday 14th December, Unite announced that strike action at bus manufacturer Optare, which began in October 2020 over ‘broken promises’…
New UK Climate Strike Dates Announced
In the last years of the 2010's the UK climate strikes emerged as a significant environmental movement, led by the UK Student Climate Network. In September 2019 the group garnered…
Power Beyond Parliament: Resource guide
Protest sign saying no. Image credits via niekverlaan, Pixabay License. With the latest election result the Conservatives, with their terrible climate record, could be in power until 2024. That's four…
Solidarity Beyond the Picket Line: Notes on the HE strike
On Thursday 31st October I am going on strike for the first time in my life. I’m not a lecturer or a researcher but for the past seven years I’ve…
Lecturers and university staff in first UK-wide joint strike over pay
This piece originally appeared in Nouse, the University of York's student newspaper. Thousands of lecturers and non-academic staff will go on strike over pay on Thursday 31st October, after members…
Women’s Work? Women’s strike!
A brief reflection on the N30 strike One of the differences between the 30th November strike and most other industrial actions was the highly visible presence of women on the…
Organising Against Austerity: Economic Power, Unions and Communities
In the UK today we no longer have mass industrial trade unions; with the possible exception of the transport unions it is hard to have an effect that can't simply…