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Trade Unions

Picket line

Conservative MPs have been exaggerating the pay of rail workers, Full Fact finds

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
26 June, 2022 (4 days ago)

An investigation by the independent fact checker confirms that the transport secretary and other Tory MPs have got their figures wrong when it comes to what striking rail employees earn.

Morgan and Lynch

Mick Lynch’s best five interviews of the week

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
25 June, 2022 (5 days ago)

In flooring critics in the corporate media with a down-to-earth, no-nonsense attitude, the RMT boss has become the star of the rail strikes and has something of a cult following.

Picket line

UK rail strike: Second day of action underway as RMT accuses government of ‘wrecking negotiations’

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
23 June, 2022 (1 week ago)

“Until the government unshackle Network Rail and the train operating companies, it is not going to be possible for a negotiated settlement to be agreed,’ says union boss Mick Lynch.

A photo of a trade union protest with the words "The UnionDues Column" overlaid

UnionDues: 5 important discussions on the GMB/Deliveroo agreement

Simon Sapper
15 June, 2022 (3 weeks ago)

‘Is this a remarkable negotiating coup or a sharp move to take IWGB out of the game?’

UK was not fully prepared for the Covid pandemic

Low-paid NHS staff forced to use food banks as they face huge real wage hit

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
13 June, 2022 (3 weeks ago)

Nurses who face a shocking real terms pay cut this year of £1,600, are being forced to use food banks to feed families.

Daily Mail

Pay strikes at ink manufacturer likely to disrupt printing of Daily Mail

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
28 May, 2022

Industrial action over an ‘insulting’ 3% pay offer for employees at Sun Chemical is set to impact production of the right-wing newspaper.

Cost of living crisis

Interest rates rise will exacerbate the cost-of-living crisis unions warn, amid calls for an emergency budget

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
8 May, 2022

‘Once again, the working people of this country will pay the price.’

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern

What the UK could learn from New Zealand’s planned labour laws

Tony Burke
1 April, 2022

Jacinda Ardern’s Government has introduced legislation to enable industry-wide collective bargaining

Save our seafarers

Solidarity builds for sacked P&O workers as protestors gather at ports

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
27 March, 2022

The fight for the dismissed P&O Ferries’ employees to win back their jobs moved up a gear this weekend with demonstrations held in the UK and beyond.

Zero-hour contracts

BME women twice as likely to be on zero-hour contacts as white men

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
10 March, 2022

‘Structural racism in action’ has been a key discussion point at the Trade Union Congress Women’s Conference 2022, which is now underway.

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