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communist party of great britain (marxist-leninist)

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Disputes highlights

  • Disputes / Support the South Western Railway strike

    Railway workers are fighting to put safety ahead of profit: keep the guard on the train!

    3 Dec 2019 ,
  • Disputes / Royal Mail: high court bans the strike

    For how long will we accept the right of bosses’ courts to decide how workers’ organisations are run?

    26 Nov 2019 ,
  • USA / General Motors workers on strike in the US

    The workers have paid a heavy price for their employer’s return to profitability.

    25 Oct 2019 ,
  • Disputes / Royal Mail workers vote overwhelmingly to strike

    Mail workers are ready to fight for their pay and conditions, but is their union prepared to back them?

    24 Oct 2019 ,
  • Pay and conditions / Cleaners demand fair pay at government department

    Outsourced staff are on strike for living wages at the department of business.

    16 Aug 2019 ,
  • Pay and conditions / Railway pensions under attack

    As profiteering franchise bidders haggle with the government over contract terms, workers’ hard-earned pensions are once more under threat.

    8 Jul 2019 , Proletarian
  • Pay and conditions / Support the Sellafield strikers!

    Workers at the Sellafield nuclear plant are in revolt against poverty wages and management bullying.

    28 May 2019 , Proletarian
  • Disputes / Privatisation directors’ fat salaries come from ripping off health service workers

    Sodexo and Mitie are the latest hospital outsourcing companies to face industrial action by staff over terrible pay and conditions.

    14 May 2019 ,
  • Disputes / Left-Labour-controlled Newham is not such a New Jerusalem

    Despite working for a Labour council and a Corbynite mayor, council workers in Newham face pay cuts and bullying.

    13 May 2019 , Proletarian
  • Disputes / Brum bin strike concludes with a payout

    A new deal was concluded in March to appease workers’ anger at secret payouts to GMB members during the 2017 strike.

    24 Mar 2019 , Proletarian
  • Disputes / Deliveroo strikes spread

    Increasing numbers of workers in the gig economy are fighting for basic rights at work.

    17 Mar 2019 ,
  • Disputes / South Western railworkers win battle to keep the guard on the train

    Safe and affordable public transport for all. Support our rail workers!

    19 Feb 2019 , Proletarian
  • Disputes / Deliveroo strike in Bristol: gig economy workers fight back

    Resistance to the poverty pay and union-busting tactics of so many zero-hour and gig economy employers is gathering momentum.

    23 Jan 2019 , Proletarian
  • Disputes / Refuse, resist! Brum rubbish collectors ready to strike as council talks fail

    Brummie binmen are days away from an all-out strike, clashing once again with a Labour council that has rewarded scabs and blacklisted strikers.

    20 Jan 2019 , Sputnik
  • Disputes / Cammell Laird strike suspended for now

    Workers’ resistance has led to a stay of execution at the Merseyside shipyard.

    3 Jan 2019 , Lalkar
  • Lay-offs and closures / Cammell Laird shipyard strikes

    Overproduction is hitting industry after industry, proving once more that capitalism cannot solve the problems of the masses.

    27 Dec 2018 ,
  • Lay-offs and closures / Support Asda Queslett workers’ fight for jobs

    Don’t let machines come before jobs, nor profit before people.

    19 Dec 2018 , Birmingham Worker
  • Pay and conditions / Marriott hotel staff walk-outs across the USA

    Hard-pressed hospitality workers are fighting back over low pay and increasingly brutal conditions.

    9 Dec 2018 ,
  • Disputes / Birmingham: Two-faced council breaks promises to binmen and residents

    Birmingham’s militant binmen deserve our full support as their dispute looks set to break out again this Christmas.

    1 Dec 2018 , Proletarian
  • Pay and conditions / University of Manchester support staff to strike against pension attacks

    Cleaners, caterers, security and admin staff are fighting to defend their right to a dignified retirement.

    17 Nov 2018 , Proletarian
  • Disputes / Support the Glasgow women’s strike for equal pay

    But beware the Labour wolf in sheep's clothing!

    23 Oct 2018 ,
  • Disputes / FE lecturers ballot over derisory pay offer

    It is not the job of workers to square the accounts of their employers.

    17 Oct 2018 ,
  • Korea / Victory for Samsung workers

    Electronics giant finally forced to concede to safety concerns after over 100 worker deaths and more than 1,000 days of sit-in protest .

    6 Oct 2018 , Lalkar
  • Disputes / Support the fast food strikers!

    Fast food workers across Britain are organising to demand decent pay and conditions.

    3 Oct 2018 ,
  • Disputes / Support Birmingham’s homecare workers

    Before Labour councillors privatise the service completely.

    19 Sep 2018 , Birmingham Worker
  • Disputes / West Midlands firefighters threat of strike causes employer to retreat?

    Long live workers’ militant unity.

    11 Aug 2018 , Proletarian
  • Disputes / French rail workers lead the fight to defend pay and conditions

    Macron's government hopes to use divide-and-rule tactics to break the resistance of the French working class.

    22 Jun 2018 ,
  • Disputes / TGI Fridays staff strike over tips ‘redistribution’

    Cut-throat competition in the oversupplied public dining sector is forcing real wages down even as the minimum wage officially goes up.

    21 Jun 2018 ,
  • Industry / Privatised rail industry totters

    The resistance of rail workers to safety-cutting measures is bringing the question of renationalisation back onto the political agenda.

    19 May 2018 , Proletarian
  • Disputes / Glasgow lowlife

    Yet another 'arms-length' union-busting operation as Glasgow city council's chosen privateers hire scabs rather than pay agreed wages.

    15 May 2018 ,
  • Disputes / University workers sold down the river

    With friends like the University and College Union leadership, who needs enemies?

    14 May 2018 , Proletarian
  • France / France fights back against Thatcherite ‘reforms’

    French workers have only to see what has been done to the British working class in recent decades to understand the ramifications of their present fight.

    3 May 2018 , Lalkar
  • Leaflets / Support the northern trains strike!

    Shareholders get richer while workers and the public suffer.

    18 Mar 2018 ,
  • Disputes / Why lecturers need to remain steadfast in defence of their pensions

    Plans to rob workers of their deferred wages and replace them with a slashed pot totally dependent on market fluctuations must be resisted.

    11 Mar 2018 ,
  • Pay and conditions / Council workers win skirmish with Manchester outsourcing cowboy

    The involvement of Labour councils in the outsourcing racket should make unions think twice about their generous donations to the party's coffers.

    11 Mar 2018 ,
  • Leaflets / Hands off lecturers’ pensions

    A decent pension for all workers is a right, not a privilege.

    1 Mar 2018 ,
  • Disputes / Support the McWorkers: class against class!

    Organisation is a vital weapon in the fight for our rights.

    12 Feb 2018 ,
  • Disputes / Crossrail electricians walk out

    Blacklisting Balfour Beatty manager dismisses union members in an attept to avert strike action.

    1 Feb 2018 , Proletarian
  • Disputes / Migrant workers in London: We are not the dirt we clean

    New unions are championing London's invisible workforce.

    1 Feb 2018 , Proletarian
  • Disputes / Rail strikes multiplying

    The government and rail operators are continuing to force unsafe driver only operation onto staff and passengers.

    1 Feb 2018 , Proletarian
  • Disputes / Birmingham’s binmen conclude their strike … for now

    A ‘new’ deal has been offered that appears to make some concessions, but which demands more work for the same money.

    1 Dec 2017 , Proletarian
  • Disputes / Editorial: Message to Birmingham’s bin workers

    1 Dec 2017 , Proletarian
  • Disputes / Binmen on strike in Birmingham

    More council cuts = more rats! Birmingham’s refuse workers are mounting strong resistance to the latest austerity plans of the city’s Labour-led council.

    1 Aug 2017 , Proletarian
  • British politics / How the scabs were ditched, and other dirty laundry of 1989-90

    The latest release of cabinet papers gives us a further insight into the secret doings of our ruling class.

    1 Dec 2016 , Proletarian
  • Disputes / Editorial: Junior doctors vote to reject new contract

    Health secretary Jeremy Hunt vows to impose new conditions anyway as privatisation plans ramps up another gear.

    1 Aug 2016 , Proletarian
  • Industry / Industry matters: Cleaners’ victory

    1 Aug 2016 , Proletarian
  • Pay and conditions / Union-busting at Topshop

    Retail giant's outsourced cleaners protest against victimisation of activists.

    1 Jun 2016 , Proletarian
  • Disputes / No to the new doctors’ contract; save our NHS!

    Hunt declares victory for the government; BMA’s Malawana declares ... nothing.

    1 Jun 2016 , Proletarian
  • Health / Sudden death of the ‘weekend effect’

    One of the key planks in the government's propaganda offensive against junior doctors has been exposed as a total nonsense.

    1 Jun 2016 , Proletarian
  • Disputes / Greece: the struggle continues

    General strikes resume in the fight against austerity.

    11 May 2016 , Proletarian
  • Disputes / Kohler workers’ strike in the US

    Workers demand an abolition to the two-tier pay system and equality among all the company's employees.

    11 May 2016 , Proletarian
  • Health / The junior doctors’ contract and the US corporate takeover of the NHS

    Dr Bob Gill explains the unreported and sinister drive behind the push for changing junior doctors’ contracts.

    1 Dec 2015 , Proletarian
  • Disputes / Letter: Boycott the General Medical Council

    The medical profession needs a new, independent governing body, capable of acting in the true interests of patients.

    1 Dec 2015 , Proletarian
  • Proletarian news / Industry matters: Amazon unveiled

    1 Oct 2015 , Proletarian
  • Industry / Industry matters: French ferry workers blaze a trail

    16 Sep 2015 , Proletarian
  • Working-class history / The matchgirls’ strike of 1888

    A landmark victory in working-class history, with much relevance to the many workers today who are once more unorganised and unrepresented by any union.

    1 Jun 2008 , Proletarian

Disputes topics

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  • Health and safety
  • Privatisation
  • Protests and strikes
  • Railways
  • Anti-union laws
  • CWU
  • Postal service
  • Capitalist crisis
  • Car industry
  • Overproduction crisis
  • Outsourcing
  • Poverty

Disputes video

  • Disputes / New deal offered to striking university staff is no deal at all

    The latest proposals are simply an attempt to take the fire out of the strikers and wear down their resistance. Workers' reply? No capitulation!

    16 Mar 2018,

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