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Unless Qatar improves its treatment of workers, the World Cup vote must be re-run, unions tell UEFA Congress [TUC] For more info 2013-05-24
Post Office workers call fifth strike since Easter [The Independent] 2013-05-24
England Blacklist case calls on Crossrail companies to come clean [UnionNews] 2013-05-21
Unite calls on Londoners to march on Saturday to save the NHS 'from ruin' [Unite] 2013-05-17
England Blacklisted worker needs re-constructive surgery after hit-and-run on demo [Daily Deadnought] 2013-05-17
Fig leaf for slashing the fire service [FBU] 2013-05-17
Campaign of strikes and protests by PCS continues tomorrow [15 May] with a strike by environment staff [PCS] 2013-05-15
Up to 300 security staff at the Houses of Parliament will strike over shifts [PCS] 2013-05-13
How much would it cost to double garment workers wages in Bangladesh? [TUC] ActNOW! 2013-05-11
Doubling the wages of a Bangladeshi textile worker would add just 2p to the cost of a t-shirt, says TUC [TUC] ActNOW! 2013-05-10
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England Justice for cleaners at Birkbeck launched ActNOW! 2013-04-25 [NCAFC]
England May Day 'Justice for Cleaners' protest ActNOW! 2013-05-01 [Soas SU]
England Model motion to support 3 Cosas campaign ActNOW! 2012-12-03 [ULU]
England London Univeristy cleaners hold protest for sick pay, holidays, pensions ActNOW! 2013-04-10 [Demotix]
England VIDEO: 3 Cosas - equal rights for outsourced workers! ActNOW! 2013-05-24 [ReelNews]
England 'Pop Up Union' in dispute with Sussex Uni over outsourcing 2013-05-24 [Pop Up Union]
England Salford Star community magazine goes on strike 2013-05-24 [Salford Star]
Thousands of FirstGroup workers hit by company share collapse 2013-05-24 [RMT]
England RMT to ballot East Midlands Trains workers over impact of engineering work 2013-05-24 [RMT]
Scotland Glasgow college staff threaten strike in pay dispute 2013-05-24 [Herald Scotland]
Crunch talks to avert Jersey teachers' strike 2013-05-24 [Channel TV]
Scotland Strike threat over Stirling Council plans to cut pay and raise hours 2013-05-24 [STV]
BBC unions reject £50-a-year pay increase 2013-05-24 [UnionNews]
England Far better is it to dare Mitie things - airport cleaners on strike today 2013-05-24 [UnionNews]
World Maritime University students in London 2013-05-24 [ITF]
'Blacklisting has got to be finished with' 2013-05-23 [Morning Star]
Disabled workers halt London traffic 2013-05-23 [Morning Star]
Facility time cuts a 'direct attack' on trade unions 2013-05-23 [Morning Star]
Blacklisting protest hit and run - 'He drove off laughing...' 2013-05-23 [Morning Star]
Civil Service union PCS moved a step closer to a merger with Unite 2013-05-23 [Morning Star]
Equinox Care charity faces strike action over plans to slash wages by up to £6,000-a-year 2013-05-23 [Unite]
England Carling workers take 'pay cut' dispute to Burton public on Saturday 2013-05-23 [Unite]
Government should act on work capability assessments ruling, says TUC 2013-05-23 [TUC]
Woolwich attack: ASLEF statement 2013-05-23 [ASLEF]
England Temp workers' payslips: how to check you're not being short-changed 2013-05-23 [Guardian]
Flybe pilots take a pay cut to avoid redundancies 2013-05-23 [BBC]
Threat to nearly 300 jobs at Britvic’s Chelmsford, Huddersfield and Belfast sites ‘a bitter blow’ 2013-05-23 [Unite]
Irish Equity, SIPTU and Equity UK meet to campaign to advance rights for actors 2013-05-23 [SIPTU]
‘I’m no militant’ says union boss behind the TT strike 2013-05-22 [Today]
Royal Mail results show success in public ownership 2013-05-22 [CWU]
Unite offers MPs solution to A&E crisis 2013-05-22 [Unite]
Government urged to re-think 'family silver' sell-off as Royal Mail profits surge 2013-05-22 [Unite]
NHS boss 'stepping down' welcomed by Unite 2013-05-22 [Unite]
Stop 25m mega-trucks 2013-05-22 [ASLEF]
ASLEF first union to back Scotland in UK 2013-05-22 [ASLEF]
England RMT begins balloting for action on Tyne and Wear Metro in disputes over pay and staff member victimisation 2013-05-22 [RMT]
British workers have suffered 8.5 per cent real-term wage drop, says TUC 2013-05-22 [TUC]
Government welfare and spending cuts are having a devastating impact on disabled people, says TUC 2013-05-22 [TUC]
Protesters support blacklisted worker Frank Morris 2013-05-22 [Socialist Worker]
Cops face criticism after 'blacklist hero' hit by car 2013-05-22 [Socialist Worker]
Scotland Aslef throws weight behind No vote 2013-05-22 [ASLEF]
Cash pours in for injured construction activist Tapp 2013-05-22 [Morning Star]
Builder takes blacklist fight to court 2013-05-22 [Morning Star]
Withdrawal from EU is unlikely to aid workers 2013-05-22 [Morning Star]
Workers Uniting - Just the beginning of a groundbreaking fight 2013-05-21 [USW]
Models are workers too – Equity's new code should be taken seriously 2013-05-21 [guardian.co.uk]
GFTU delegates spell out cuts chaos 2013-05-21 [The Morning Star]
Strike threat as thousands of jobs go at O2 call centres 2013-05-21 [UnionNews]
Unions warn of major dispute in FE colleges as bosses withdraw pay offer 2013-05-21 [UnionNews]
This month in labour history
4-05-1926 For the first and so far only time in British history, the TUC calls millions of workers out in a general strike, in support of coal miners. [more]
5-05-1882 Sylvia Pankhurst, suffragette and revolutionary socialist, is born. [more]
10-05-1920 Dockers refused to load arms shipments to be used by White armies in Russia. [more]
30-05-1984 Miners leader Arthur Scargill, along with 81 other pickets, is arrested at the Orgreave coking plant in South Yorkshire. [more]