Nurses now join junior doctors in escalating what is effectively a fight for the NHS’s survival as a functioning, free at the point of use, world class healthcare provider.
Category Archives: Trade Unions
We demand meaningful work for all: WPB takes a stand on UBI
The Workers Party of Britain believes that unemployment is a disease of capitalism, and that our goal is a society with full employment guaranteed for those who are able to work.
Letter from a teacher about Scabs
A letter to our TU Group from a teacher. No favours for scabs.
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.
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.
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.
Solidarity with striking rail cleaners – Victory to the RMT
Full solidarity with rail cleaners taking strike action with the RMT.