Report: Hundreds of Amazon Workers Stage Wildcat Strike Over ‘Kick in the Teeth’ Pay Offer
Simon Childs & Polly Smythe
Workers at a gigantic Essex warehouse are protesting after being offered just 35p more per hour from the multinational.
Tag: strikes
Explainers: Why BT Workers Are Going on Strike
BT recorded £2 billion in profits before tax last year. Its CEO, Philip Jansen, enjoyed a salary of £3.5 million. Yet it’s now offering engineers & call centre workers a real terms pay CUT. Aaron Bastani explains why BT workers have had enough.
Opinion: A Cash Injection Won’t Fix Our Broken Legal System
Michael Etienne
Criminal barristers deserve better pay, writes Michael Etienne. But paying barristers better won't deliver a justice system that’s actually just.
Analysis: Everything You Need to Know About Hot Strike Summer
Strike Map UK & Moya Lothian-McLean
As inflation sky-rockets and the cost of living bites, industrial action is on the rise. Here’s where it’s going to be kicking off over the coming months.
Report: Could ‘Don’t Pay’ Pull It Off?
Sophie K Rosa
A new, viral campaign is encouraging people to cancel their direct debits if the government fails to act on the cost of living crisis. It’s a longshot, but the organisers fancy their chances. Sophie K Rosa reports.
Explainers: The Establishment’s Plan to Deal With Inflation
As inflation rises the establishment has a solution: we all need to get poorer. The alternative is for profits to fall – but that is unacceptable to the powerful. Aaron Bastani on how only unions can save us.
Opinion: The Rail Strikes Are Entirely Justified
Aaron Bastani
The biggest wave of strikes on Britain’s rail network since 1989 is just what the doctor ordered, argues Aaron Bastani.
Opinion: Direct Action is Just What the Doctor Ordered
Moya Lothian-McLean
From anti-raids blockades to arms factory occupations, direct action is on the rise. That can only be a good thing, writes Moya Lothian-McLean.
Analysis: How Striking Lecturers Won Their Students’ Support
Alessio Koliulis
On the final day of UCU strikes, academic Alessio Koliulis reflects on the rebuilding of staff-student solidarity.
Analysis: A Court Just Took Away the Right to Strike – But a Union is Fighting to Win It Back
Callum Cant
In placing an injunction on striking security guards at Great Ormond Street Hospital, a court has made standard picketing practices illegal. We must resist this fundamental attack on the right to strike, writes Callum Cant - it’s part of a Tory slide to authoritarianism.
Opinion: University Students, Get Your Asses on the Picket Line
Zac Larkham
The ongoing UCU strikes have had a mixed reception from students. But learning conditions depend on the strikes' success, writes student organiser Zac Larkham.
Opinion: We, Goldsmiths Staff, Are Striking for the Future of Our Universities
Goldsmiths UCU Finance Working Group
When a new warden was appointed at Goldsmiths in 2019, she promised to continue the university’s ‘progressive’ legacy. Two years later, she faces massive industrial action. A group of striking workers explain.
Report: Workplace Strikes in the US Are Surging – But Workers Have a Difficult Path to Victory
Luis Feliz Leon and Maximillian Alvarez
Discontent fuelled a notable uptick in strikes in the US last month, dubbed ‘Striketober’. Rather than simply celebrating this increase in worker militancy, the left must focus on turning this moment into a movement.
Opinion: Workplace Struggles and Plans for Government Must Go Hand in Hand
James Meadway
Unite’s new general secretary Sharon Graham has promised to prioritise industrial struggle over internal Labour politics. This is a good thing, argues James Meadway – but the post-Corbyn left shouldn't altogether turn its back on aspirations of running the country.
Report: General Strike: Workers Take on the Military in Myanmar
Htar Nwe
Trade unions in Myanmar called for a nationwide strike on Monday, as the country entered its sixth week of mass protest since the military coup. Novara Media spoke to organiser Htar Nwe.
Report: Welcome to Strike School, the Programme Teaching Global Workers to Fight Back
Sophie K Rosa
Renowned trade union organiser Jane McAlevey has teamed up with the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation to teach thousands of workers around the world how to get organised - a skill never more useful than during the pandemic. Sophie K Rosa reports.
Report: ‘It’s All Performative, They Don’t Care’: Why Tate Workers Are Going on Strike
Sophie K Rosa
Facing redundancy during a national recession and global pandemic, Tate workers are going on strike, arguing that, despite the art institution’s socially conscious image, it is the lowest-paid and most diverse workers who will be worst impacted. Sophie K Rosa reports.
Opinion: To Fight the Coming Storm, the Left Needs to Learn From the Anti-Austerity Movement
Michael Chessum
The next few years are likely to see the biggest crisis of capitalism, and the biggest assault on our rights and living standards, in any of our lifetimes. What can the British left learn from the anti-austerity movement about what the fightback should look like?