Last Saturday, cleaners from the Independent Workers’ Union of Great Britain (IWGB) protested outside of the London Elizabeth Hotel in Hyde Park …
Cleaners protest outside London Elizabeth Hotel over withheld furlough wages
Tag: Trade Unions
Pamphlet Extract: Workers’ struggles in the lockdown
The Angry Workers of the World has launched a new pamphlet today taking a concerted look at the current crisis and asking: What can working class p…
Precarious workers demand campus shutdown and furlough with COVID-19 declared ‘Major Incident’ in London
With Covid-19 declared a ‘major incident’ in London, precarious workers are still being compelled to provide cleaning and security services in …
Don’t join, Organise: On the limits of employment law
Following Boris Johnson’s burbling mess of an address yesterday there’s been a renewed interest in health and safety legislation, our right to stay…
Coronavirus and your right to stay away from work
On Sunday evening, Boris Johnson declared that it was time for the people of England to get back to work.
History: The rise and fall of the Knights of Labor
Stephen Parfitt looks at the legendary US workers’ organisation from its founding in 1869 to its collapse in the 1890s and considers what les…
Portugal: The dockers’ struggle
Pedro Friere takes a deep dive into the background of dockworker strikes in Portugal, which kicked off spectacularly in November with casualised wo…
Iran: court sentences 15 workers to prison and flogging for striking
Fifteen workers of the Heavy Equipment Production Company (HEPCO) were sentenced to prison and flogging in Iran.
Shut Carlow Street: We’ll run our own union
UCU activist Jose Collina reflects this year’s universities pensions strike, won and lost.
Boots pharmacy workers kill the yellow union
The 86.63% vote to de-recognise the Boots Pharmacists Association (BPA) ends six years of wrangling as anti-union bosses tried to avoid letting st…
Hundreds to protest against outsourcing at University of London
Hundreds of people are expected to protest today at the University of London’s Senate House demanding an end to outsourcing of Uni’s esse…
Victory for LSE Cleaners
The London School of Economics cleaners will now officially be employees of the LSE from 5th March 2018.
Uruguay: Trade Unionist Murdered by a Strike-breaker
Marcelo Silvera, the interim president of the Cargo Transport and Related Branches Union (SUTCRA) was murdered on the morning of 3rd January by a s…
Amid TUC decline, Britain’s radical unions grow
The Trades Union Congress is facing a decline in membership that many within the organisation are recognising as a crisis.
France: Revolutionary syndicalists call week of debates to ‘kill the ostrich’
Activists with the Comités Syndicalistes Révolutionnaires (CSR) have announced a major new initiative to “kill the ostrich” of faili…
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