Last September McDonald’s workers took strike action at two of the food giants stores, and in doing so made history. This was the first time that McDonald’s workers had ever taken strike action in Britain. Since then many more people have joined the Baker’s Union which is presently campaigning to organise all McDonalds’ staff by […]
“The gender pay gap for full-time workers is entirely in favour of men for all occupations”. This is the first line of a report from the Office for National Statistics on the results of the governments’ gender pay gap survey, released earlier this year. Since 1970 and the passing of the Equal Pay Act into […]
On Saturday 31st March Leicester Socialist Party hosted a public meeting to discuss the lessons that could be learned today from the famous Grunwick strike which took place just over forty years ago. The introductory talk was given by Jean Thorpe. (Thanks to Ambrose Musiyiwa for filming the meeting.) The meeting was also addressed by […]
Workers at two McDonald’s restaurants based in South East London and Cambridge undertook a successful strike action on 4 September. This strike represents the first action of its kind within the British branches of the fast-food chain. Following similar protests that have taken place last year, on Monday around thirty people joined the Bakers Union […]
Workers at two McDonald’s restaurants in South East London and Cambridge are taking strike action on Monday 4 September. This strike represents the first action of its kind within the British branches of the fast-food chain. The date has been called to coincide with Labor Day in the US, where workers in hundreds of cities […]
When Socialist Party members from Leicester visited the picket line at the huge Argos warehouse in Magna Park, Lutterworth we were greeted with dozens of red Unite the Union flags and a union gazebo. For the two week strike they are maintaining a busy 24 hour picket line; you could sense the solidarity and strength […]
A six day strike by over 400 Unite members at the Argos Lutterworth depot in Leicestershire began just after midnight on 7 June. Warehouse and admin staff are out alongside drivers. 96 drivers are being transferred by the company to Eddie Stobart Ltd. They are demanding the company cancels the transfer meant to happen on 12 […]
Probation workers in Unison took three hours of strike action on 14 September in an ongoing dispute over pay. Steve Score supported the picket line at Cobden Street, Leicester and spoke to Steve Jeggo, Unison Probation East Midlands assistant branch secretary and local convener: “We are here because of the zero pay rise we were […]
Unite members at Trelleborg engineering in Leicester have won a two-year pay deal following two strikes. As a result their planned three day strike was called off on Wednesday 26th November, with their success no doubt owing much to the workers plans to escalate their industrial action in succeeding weeks. The deal includes: A back paid 1.7% […]
UPDATE: On Wednesday 26th November the strike was called off as the Trelleborg management backed down to give in to the workers demands. Brilliant! Another success for Leicester workers. With the workers at the Beaumont Ley’s Trelleborg factory having just undertaken a two-day strike, it appears that their management are determined to ignore their very […]
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