Report: Vet Company Responds to Strikes By Simply Closing Branches
Polly Smythe
Valley Vets is the first veterinary group in the UK to face strike action by its workers. Now it’s shutting most of its surgeries. Polly Smythe reports.
Tag: strikes
Feature: Six Companies Own 60% of UK Vets, and Workers Are Sick of It
Polly Smythe
Global megacorporations have spotted an opportunity in the millions of new lockdown puppies and are snapping up local veterinary practices in bulk. The result is broke pet owners and underpaid workers - and the first vet practice strike in UK history, reports Polly Smythe.
Analysis: Sharon Graham’s Strategy Shows Unions Can Win Without the Labour Party
Gregor Gall
While she doesn't have the public profile of Mick Lynch, Unite's Sharon Graham is the most successful of the current union leaders, argues Gregor Gall.
Feature: Precarious, Low-Paid Migrant Workers Are Sick of Low Pay and Bad Conditions
Simon Childs
Staff at eight workplaces walked out last month, as low-paid, outsourced workers in private-sector took industrial action. But their bosses are using outsourcing to wash their hands of them. Simon Childs reports.
Report: France’s ‘Robin Hood’ Energy Workers Are Sending Cheap Electricity to Schools and Hospitals
Olly Haynes
Striking workers are using sabotage tactics to fight for everyone.
Analysis: No, Gen Z Don’t Just Care About ‘Identity Politics’
Keir Milburn
Gen Z is more pro-union and pro-strike than any generation before them. That’s an opportunity not just for bridging divides within ‘generation left’, but generational divides too, argues Keir Milburn.
ACFM: Microdose: Strikes on Screen
From blacklisted Hollywood dramas to bawdy British comedies, ACFM goes to the movies.
ACFM: Trip 31: Strikes
The ACFM union look back on 200 years of strikes, with music from Paul Robeson and The Flying Pickets.
Feature: Could Pension Reform End Macron?
Olly Haynes
An attempt to raise the retirement age in France has sparked the biggest anti-government protests since the gilets jaunes. Olly Haynes reports.
Report: Everything You Need to Know About the UK’s Biggest Strike-Day in a Decade
Polly Smythe
Up to half a million workers will take action in a 'protect the right to strike' day. Here's a guide to what's happening.
Feature: What Actually is a General Strike and is the UK Going to Have One?
Polly Smythe
There's been a lot of talk about general strikes recently. As unions take coordinated action, Polly Smythe explains what it would take for unions to call a general strike.
Interview: Amazon Workers Go on Strike for the First Time in UK
We visited the Amazon workers striking for the first time ever in Coventry.
Analysis: Targeted or Indefinite Action? Here’s What’s Next for the Uni Strikes
Polly Smythe
Lecturers will strike for 18 days in February and March. Here's how a debate about tactics happened.
Opinion: The Tory Anti-Strike Laws Are About Disciplining the Working Class
Charles Umney and Ian Greer
Cracking down on strikes won't work, but it's a short term way for the government to show the market that workers can be marshalled to make bigger profits.
Report: What Do the New Anti-Strike Laws Mean?
Polly Smythe
New legislation will enforce 'minimum service levels' in key public services, including the NHS, in a major assault on the right to strike. Polly Smythe explains.
Feature: These Were the Moments That Made 2022
Simon Childs, Rivkah Brown, Clare Hymer, Aaron Bastani, Moya Lothian-McLean & Keir Milburn
A look back at some highlights and lowlights from the past year.
Analysis: By Fighting for Themselves, Trade Unionists Are Standing up for Everyone
Polly Smythe
Novara Media labour movement correspondent Polly Smythe reflects on a year that saw a revival of trade union militancy.
Novara Live: Ambulance Worker’s Strike, Sunak’s Dirty Deal
Another day, another wave of strikes. UK Border Force, the Fire Brigades Union and ambulance workers are just some of the many strikes set to clash with Christmas. Plus Rishi Sunak u-turns on his pledge not to build onshore wind farms.