Southampton council workers are striking over pay cuts, but Britain has seen little industrial action over actual job losses
Today 4,300 council workers in Southampton are taking the first…Read more…
After the cuts protest, what next? | Gregor Gall
The huge turnout of protesters means the TUC is burdened with great expectations; now unions must push the cuts campaign on
The TUC and the union movement must be delighted that Saturday’s march…Read more…
Lord Hutton has made scapegoats of public sector workers | Mark Serwotka
Hutton knows pensions are being cut not because they are unaffordable but because banks caused a public finance crisis
Lord Hutton, a former Labour minister, has been touring the TV studios…Read more…
There is an alternative to public spending cuts | Mark Serwotka
The barrage of cuts propaganda has disabled any critical thought – but my union has shown there is another way
Since before the election, David Cameron has been telling us “we’re all in this…Read more…
Response: This is not kneejerk opposition. We just don’t want our members driven into poverty
It is right for our union to try to protect working conditions in the civil service
Your leader lays the blame for the previous government’s failed attempt to drastically cut civil service redundancy…Read more…
How can civil service cuts be blamed on union court action? | Mark Serwotka
Despite Francis Maude’s weasel words, the Tories would almost certainly have attacked civil service redundancy terms anyway
The logic of claiming, as Daniel Calder does, that Francis Maude would not…Read more…
Fight cuts with co-ordinated union action | Mark Serwotka
There is an alternative to slashing public services and unions must forge a united front to resist the political consensus
Today in Brighton more than 1,000 Public and Commercial Services Union…Read more…