Have the Labour Party EVER supported a strike?
Rhymney Valley Women’s Support Group. Image: National Museum of Wales. Today is the 30th anniversary of the end of the miners’ strike, the climax of Margaret Thatcher’s war against trade…
NHS strike postponed
UNISON members on strike at Salford Royal hospital (Matt Hanley) With less than 48 hours before today's planned 12 hour nationwide strike of NHS nurses, porters, cleaners, ambulance staff, secretaries…
“Get Organised!” – why young workers should join trade unions
Georgia Elander explains why it's important for young workers to join trade unions, and discusses Young Greens' new Get Organised! campaign, which had its first national week of action last…
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…
The Greens: A movement without the mass
This post is by Benali Hamdache, who is a member of the Policy Committee of the Green Party of England and Wales, and Co-coordinator of the London Greens. He tweets…
Trade Union Votes Against Supporting Abuse Survivors
Unison, the UK's largest trade union, has today voted against believing women who report violence or abuse from men within the trade union movement. The union's national delegate…
Inez McCormack – A Tribute
Mention Inez McCormack to many Northern Irish people of this generation and get blank faces. But Inez McCormack was an incredible, lifelong fighter for justice. Through her activism, she affected…
Dave Prentis: A Credible Union Leader?
A few days ago, I was disappointed to hear that Dave Prentis, the general secretary of Unison – my trade union – has been appointed as a non-executive director of…
The petition on hanging shows how the right’s willingness to fail allows it to succeed
I read with some delight that the petition lodged by scurrilous hate-monger Paul Staines to have a debate in Parliament to ‘bring back hanging’ is set to be struck off.…
Time to join a union
In light of today's speech by Vince Cable, and several ominous articles in the press and on-line, it seems the UK's science community is beginning to formulate a response. Jennifer…