Democracy & State > Trade unions
Anarchist origins of the 'general strike' slogan
17 Mar 2011
We set up this debate in response to widespread calls from the Trotskyist left for the TUC to call a general strike against the cuts. This is Mike Macnair's opening
Cost cutting in Dundee hospitals
16 Mar 1995
PO workers fight closures
09 Mar 1995
Rank and file action across one union
09 Mar 1995
Pat McManus is a staff nurse at the Central Middlesex Hospital in London. He is branch secretary for the main health union, Unison. Here he talks to Peter Manson
Rail bosses' expanding pay packet bonanza
09 Mar 1995
Nurses’ unity under threat
09 Mar 1995
While nurses are being offered a pay rise that is in fact a pay cut those lucky lads at bust Barings Bank are to get a million pound bonus to peck up their spirits. Greedy British Gas boss Cedric Brown and his fellow directors have just slipped themselves a million free shares. They live in a world where the millions are just perks. The world is hard, but it’s fair. More than fair to a few: much less than fair to the rest
Workers’ unity in Europe
02 Mar 1995
An absence of leadership
02 Mar 1995
Maggie Crow, a Unison steward at Christie hospital in Manchester, talks about the prospects for a fightback among nurses
Organise against the pay scandal!
02 Mar 1995
With whole sections of workers furious over low pay and threats to their jobs, anger is mounting against the bosses’ pay perks. Major is promising ‘action’ to curb them, but all is not as it seems
Build solidarity with sacked busworkers
23 Feb 1995
Bill Horslen, one of the sacked busworkers from Chelmsford, reports on the Badgerline group delegate conference of the Transport and General Workers Union
Workers’ action forces French climbdown
23 Feb 1995
Forcing Richard to budge
23 Feb 1995
Nurses condemn 1% pay insult
23 Feb 1995
Organise to fight back together
United fight against 1%
23 Feb 1995
In the face of a storm of protest from healthworkers the Tories are pleading poverty. They are desperate to fund their tax cut bribes at the expense of our pay packets and public services. Their attempt to split the workforce up around the country through the divisive local negotiations tactic must be responded to by a united national campaign
Royal Mail attacks right to strike
09 Feb 1995
Beating them at their own game
09 Feb 1995
An article in Socialist Worker (January 28) criticised Bill Morris and the Transport and General Workers Union leadership in the Badgerline bus dispute in Chelmsford for appealing to public opinion rather than for solidarity action - a well know bureaucrat’s cop-out. But it particularly criticised the free bus service the union was running. We spoke to Bill Horslen, one of the sacked workers and a Labour councillor, about the dispute and how the bus service can be used to gain solidarity action