strikes Articles

By using Southern Rail strikes as a precept to attack workers' rights, the Tories have once again put party politics ahead of the people, argues Steve Reed MP Yesterday parliament voted down a grubby Tory bid to reduce workers’ rights that used the recent Southern...

The trade union bill, currently going through the House of Lords does more than it says on the tin. It has been presented as an opportunity to modernise industrial relations and to give members a greater influence within their unions. Its outcome, if unamended will...

With the draconian trade union bill close to passing into legislation, the Tory line is centred on this very notion: ‘strikes are bad for the public and bad for Britain’. Labour must expose the fallacy of this argument to the public. One of the most frightening...

We read in the media that on 20 August thousands of Polish workers in the United Kingdom will walk out of work to strike against the anti-migrant rhetoric that has been on the rise in the last few years. As I am a Polish migrant and chair of Labour Friends of Poland,...