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LabourStart's second book - an introduction to the global union federations, the International Trade Union Confederation, and the other institutions of our international movement. Essential reading for all trade unionists in an age of globalisation. Click here to learn more.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
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]