protest at UBS: defending the right to organise
by David Broder On Friday 12th February over seventy people braved the cold to join a protest outside Swiss bank UBS’s City of London headquarters in solidarity with cleaner activist Alberto Durango,...
View Articlebritish airways staff voting again on strike action
Today came the news that the Unite union has lost its High Court action to try and overturn British Airways’ attacks on staff. Yet after BA’s court injunction stopping a Christmas strike, a new ballot...
View Articlepublic sector unions face turbulent times
by David Huckerby According to research by the Independent newspaper, 20,000 council workers throughout England, Scotland and Wales face redundancy as forward planning for drastic government cuts take...
View Articlesolidarity with UBS cleaners: demo 5th march
The next demonstration in solidarity with cleaners working for contractor Lancaster at Swiss bank UBS will take place from 1pm on Friday 5th March outside the bank’s 100 Liverpool Street office, in...
View Articledemo at ubs in the city of london, friday 5th
The next demonstration in solidarity with cleaners working for contractor Lancaster at Swiss bank UBS will take place from 1pm on Friday 5th March outside the bank’s 100 Liverpool Street office, in...
View Articlevideo of 5th march demo at UBS
The latest demo in solidarity with cleaners in the employ of Lancaster at Swiss bank UBS in the City of London took place on 5th March. The cleaners are facing cuts in working hours and shop steward...
View Articlewhy does unite employ ISS at its HQ?
A number of migrant cleaners employed by cowboy cleaning contractor ISS in the City of London have approached The Commune, concerned about the fact that their own union UNITE has its offices cleaned...
View Articleno surprises as rat boards sinking ship
by Chris Ford There is a long history of British trade union leaders becoming Members of Parliament. This has often represented the next step by individuals whose primary concern is the advancement of...
View ArticleBA strike: against the race to the bottom
by Gregor Gall Professor of Industrial Relations, University of Hertfordshire The BA dispute in shaping up to be the key union battle of 2010, being on a par with strikes in the engineering...
View ArticleUBS worker detained by UK borders agency
by Chris Kane We have received shocking news that Lancaster Cleaning Services, a contractor for Union Bank of Switzerland, has once again colluded with the UK Borders Agency against cleaners. On this...
View Articleproposed electricians’ pay cut sparks resistance
Adam Ford writes on the electricians’ struggle and rank-and-file organising Electricians angry about proposed swingeing cuts to their wages are taking an innovative course of action in an attempt to...
View Articlemake or break moment for ‘sparks’
Adam Ford writes on the latest turn in the electricians’ struggle The grassroots ‘Sparks’ movement of electricians continues to organise direct actions and protests across the country, but it is...
View Articlelondon busworkers: olympic 500 – phoney war or wages battle?
First published in Solidarity Forever, paper of London Regional Committee IWW(IWGB), which comprises the London Busworkers Branch (IU IU530) The union Unite has raised the profile of the campaign to...
View Articlesparks show the way
This month’s editorial is written by Adam Ford and compares the workers that are winning, and those who are not The wildly different trajectories of two recent industrial disputes provides us with an...
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