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Mick Lynch has said he does not think that there will be a general strike "as we understood it in 1926" but argued that it would be "daft" for unions not to try and synchronise their actions to have the "maximum effect". RMT members are…
Fire Brigades Union general secretary Matt Wrack has said government plans to further curb workers' right to strike would be an "outrage in a so-called democracy" and "in keeping with the actions of a dictatorial regime". Ministers are…
Andrea Egan, elected president of Labour-affiliated trade union UNISON, has been expelled from the party after sharing articles from Socialist Appeal on social media. In a letter sent to Egan on November 15th, the UNISON president was…
Frances O’Grady has warned that the UK could see "Victorian" levels of poverty if workers' pay does not increase after polling revealed that one in seven people are skipping meals or going without food amid the rising cost of living…
UNISON general secretary Christina McAnea has called for a general election, accusing the government of "playing roulette" with the public finances and declaring that workers "can’t take any more". Addressing the annual TUC Congress today…
It is now just ten days until Labour conference kicks off in Liverpool. The deadline to submit motions to the annual gathering is 5pm this evening, and we've published a round-up of the model motions put forward by groups within the party…
Public sector pay rises in line with inflation could be funded through tax increases for higher earners and the wealthy, a report has concluded after polling revealed strong support for such an approach. The research, published today by…
UNISON has warned that low-paid workers in the public sector have "nothing left to cut from their budgets" after research found that 31% are skipping meals to make ends meet amid the deepening cost-of-living crisis. Publishing the findings…
Anas Sarwar has argued that bin strikes currently underway across 14 local authorities in Scotland are "entirely a mess of the SNP's making". In a Times Radio interview this afternoon, the Scottish Labour leader accused the SNP of pursuing…
The TUC has accused Grant Shapps of preventing negotiations from taking place that could avert strike action after legal advice stated that he has "very significant contractual power" to direct how industrial disputes are handled. According…
Delegates at the UNISON conference voting to back proportional representation has been welcomed by electoral reform campaigners, who have hailed the commitment from one of the largest unions in the UK as a "huge boost". Delegates at the…
Rules matter. The UK’s long commitment to a highly disproportional 'first-past-the-post' electoral system impacts on the politics we get – amplifying the voices of the two largest parties while marginalising almost everyone else. For a long…
