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Category Archives: Industry
Solidarity to striking Junior Doctors
This week so-called “Junior” Doctors are again taking industrial action across England for 96 hours to demand better pay and working conditions.
What kind of automation is good for workers?
The introduction of new technology should be accompanied by a demand by Unions and workers to re-skill, retrain and re-employ workers as engineers or designers. It cannot be an excuse to throw workers out of jobs.
Cost of living crisis: Unite says ‘wake up to corporate greed’
A press release was issued by Unite the Union 13 March 2023 exposing unbridled profiteering lies behind the cost-of-living crisis.
Revised pay offer for teachers in Wales
Working conditions for teachers are learning conditions for students. The Workers Party stands in solidarity with all teachers who are fighting for the fair and fully funded pay deal.
Calls for water bosses to be jailed
The Environment Agency (EA) called for the worst offending water company bosses to be jailed following the release of their 2021 environmental performance assessment.
Budget Day strikes
The budget has rightly been overshadowed by the strikes and protests of the labour movement, not least because the announcement has elicited comment from the Office of Budget Responsibility that we will see the largest fall in living standards since 1956.
RMT rejects pay offer
The privatisation of the rail network as we all know was undertaken as a plain matter of doctrinaire capitalist ideology, not from economic necessity. This experiment has abysmally failed. The British public overwhelmingly supports the re-nationalisation of all public utilities and the entire public transport system.
RMT considering revised offer
Whichever way the ballot goes, the victory will belong deservedly to the members of the RMT.
Centrica makes a killing off the cost of living
Energy supplier Centrica is expecting an almost eightfold increase in net profit. This at a time where 34% of adults in Britain face a choice between ‘heating or eating’ due, among other things, to a twofold increase in energy prices in the last year.