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Unite members working at Veolia’s site in Sheffield continued their campaign for union recognition, holding demonstrations yesterday in the city (19 March), with around 150 members and supporters marching through the city centre. The demonstrations started with a picket line outside the Lumley Street depot of union-busting firm, before marching onto Sheffield Town Hall to […]
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London bus drivers organised a march and rally on Tuesday (5 Nov) to highlight the unsafe and “intolerable” working conditions they are expected to put up with, and Unite has supported them all the way. Hundreds of drivers gathered outside Ron Todd House in Moreland Street before marching through the streets of the capital to […]
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Hundreds of striking workers from the Bakkavor food production factory in Spalding, Lincolnshire, marched to the town centre today (Tuesday 22) as the dispute continues. Unite members, who have been on strike for three weeks in their fight for fair pay, congregated in Spalding. They were joined by family members and other supporters before marching […]
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A sideways glance at some of the less obvious reasons why you and your friends should fight for a solution to the cost of living crisis at the big national TUC demos on 18 June
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The country is in the middle of a massive cost of living crisis and the government is failing to act – so join us in June to get the message across
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5,000 march through Scottish capital to demand an end to the public sector pay cap
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Cooks, cleaners, carers, nurses, teaching assistants, housing officers, hospital porters and many more, join tens of thousands of others in call to end austerity
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People’s Assembly-organised march will take place as the Conservative government pledges extra money to Northern Ireland to gain DUP support
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Now is its time of need: the NHS needs us and we cannot be found wanting, vice-president Carol Sewell tells demonstration
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Student nurses take their fight to save the NHS bursary back onto the capital’s streets
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On Saturday 19 March thousands of people will join the Stand up to Racism demonstration and rally in Central London to voice their opposition to inhumane way that the government has dealt with the…Read more…
‘It’s time for an alternative to the cuts, the privatising agenda, and to the pay freeze destroying lives,” says Dave Prentis as 85,000 march against austerity, and for workers’ rights
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On Sunday, it will be just five weeks to the TUC’s demonstration in Manchester marking the opening of the Tory party conference
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#4Oct British trade unions are facing a full frontal attack. Government spending on public services and the welfare state is being rolled back decades. It has never been more important for trade…Read more…
Building on last Saturday’s larger than expected anti austerity protests in Glasgow, London and other cities, the TUC is calling a national demonstration in Manchester on Sunday 4 October to coincide…Read more…
#A18DoA #NoTTIP Today is a Global Day of Action against free trade and investment treaties. Over 25 protests are planned in Britain including a major event ‘Democracy vs TTIP’ at Shepherds Bush…Read more…
#M13 Over 50,000 public service workers, including UNISON members, across Northern Ireland took 24 hour all out strike action against austerity cuts yesterday. Education, health, transport and…Read more…