
Tag: unions


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: Paranoid Bosses Are Spying on Workers During the Pandemic
Rivkah Brown

Opinion: Christina McAnea’s Unison Victory is a Lesson for the Left
Charlie M
Continuity-candidate Christina McAnea has won Unison’s general secretary election - a disappointing result for the left. Charlie Macnamara argues that in order to transform the union, it’s time for the left to get organised.

Report: Teachers’ Unions Won Big This Week. They’re Just Getting Started
Rivkah Brown

Opinion: For the People and for the Planet – It’s Time to Make Amazon Pay
Casper Gelderblom

Report: Welcome to Strike School, the Programme Teaching Global Workers to Fight Back
Sophie K Rosa

Opinion: Big Unions Aren’t Up to the Job Anymore
Lydia Hughes

Report: Big Business Is Muscling in on the UK’s Nursery Racket
Sophie K Rosa

Report: There Were Too Few Firefighters Working in London on Almost 100 Occasions in a Year, FOI Data Shows
James Walker

Opinion: The Government Scrimped on School Safety. Now Students and Staff Are Paying the Price
James McAsh

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.

Report: As the Airline Industry Faces Coronavirus Collapse, It Is Outsourcing the Crisis on to Workers
Laith Saad

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?

Coronavirus Is Breaking the Foster Care System
Josh Gabert-Doyon

International: Miners in Georgia Are Staging Wildcat Strikes in a Bid to Survive As Their Working Conditions Worsen
Volodya Vagner
In pictures: Manganese in one of Eastern Europe's hippest new travel destinations are dying as a result of poor working conditions, entrenched by decades of neoliberal reform. Volodya Vagner reports on the workers fighting back.

Opinion: A Four-Day Week Is Possible
Aidan Harper
