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Spycops inquiry ‘fundamentally flawed’ on construction blacklisting 2025-10-15 [Construction News]

Nursing unions call for UK to back prosecutions for war crimes against health workers 2025-10-15 [The Guardian]

UN committee finds UK breached international law by failing to allow public participation when drafting the EU Withdrawal Bills 2025-10-15 [Friends Of The Earth]

Birmingham bin worker blacklisting scandal rocks council 2025-10-14 [Unite]

Unite reaction to unemployment figures 2025-10-14 [Unite]

Manchester Bee Network bus strikes over as workers win excellent pay deal 2025-10-14 [Unite]

Unions demand Labour deliver a co-ordinated industrial strategy 2025-10-14 [Morning Star]

Spycops: undercover police officer turned whistleblower has become ‘an inconvenient truth,’ inquiry hears 2025-10-14 [Morning Star]

Nearly two million pensioners in the UK now live in poverty 2025-10-14 [UNISON]

Blair’s former policy chief Matthew Taylor to lead Fair Work Agency 2025-10-14 [The Guardian]

Right to protest is under sustained attack in the west, report finds 2025-10-14 [The Guardian]

Spycops inquiry reconvenes with their infiltration of race justice campaigns front and centre 2025-10-13 [Morning Star]

Lindsey Oil refinery rally to stop jobs exodus as a result of failed government net zero plans 2025-10-13 [Unite]

Strengthening our organising efforts and representation of BME trade unionists 2025-10-13 [TUC]

Unions urge MPs to investigate TikTok’s online safety job cuts 2025-10-13 [Peronnel Today]

Refuse workers fume at 'disease ridden' rubbish strewn outside home 2025-10-12 [The Mirror]

How mining banners helped shape communities past and present 2025-10-11 [BBC]

RMT welcomes Mayor’s call to pause visa changes affecting rail workers 2025-10-10 [RMT]

World Mental Health Day 2025-10-10 [PCS]

Nautilus calls for UK government to defend international maritime law after vessels seized in international waters 2025-10-10 [Nautilus]

Union pushes for Just Transition at new fuels training launch 2025-10-10 [Nautilus]

Four in five crime scene investigators say mental health is harmed by work, UNISON finds 2025-10-09 [Unison]

Government right to rule out unfair tribunal fees, says UNISON 2025-10-09 [Unison]

Bournemouth Airport strike called off as workers given improved offer 2025-10-09 [Unite]

Sheffield Wednesday workers take action at multimillionaire owner’s failure to pay wages 2025-10-09 [Unite]

Unite launches recognition campaign as Milk & More derecognises unions in escalating row 2025-10-09 [Unite]

Thousands of easyJet workers secure bumper pay deal 2025-10-09 [Unite]

Hope, not hate – UNISON joins national call for unity 2025-10-08 [Unison]

Branch environmental officers hold their inaugural seminar 2025-10-08 [Unison]

Survey reveals housing workers are battered by stress, overwork, violence, and lack of support 2025-10-08 [Unsion]

Gatwick taxi drivers protest at Uber swerving licensing laws and crippling trade 2025-10-08 [Unite]

Lindsey Oil: Government accused of breaking jobs promises to workers, Unite 2025-10-08 [Unite]

Birmingham bin agency staff refusing to cross picket lines due to ‘toxic workplace culture’ 2025-10-08 [Unite]

Carlisle support services strike continues for second day on Northern contract 2025-10-08 [RMT]

Labour Party backs reduced industrial energy prices & rail electrification 2025-10-08 [ASLEF]

David Lammy rules out charging workers for employment tribunal claims 2025-10-08 [The Guardian]

Trade unions are helping to save Durham Pride after Reform council cuts funding 2025-10-07 [Unison]

Norwich Eaton Park Café becomes first hospitality venue in city to unionise 2025-10-07 [Unite]

Spycops inquiry resumes next week 2025-10-07 [Morning Star]

'Huge pay victory' - Birkenhead, Chorley and Preston bus strikes called off 2025-10-06 [Liverpool World]

Imperial College pay strikes to hit first week of teaching and graduation day 2025-10-06 [Unite the union]

Tory plans to leave ECHR would put worker rights at risk, TUC warns 2025-10-06 [Morning Star]

Servers and bar staff begin strikes at London board games bars 2025-10-06 [Morning Star]

Searchable list of titles used by Anthropic AI is now live 2025-10-06 [Society of Authors]

Revealed: thousands of rogue bosses have failed to pay tribunal awards 2025-10-05 [BIJ]

UNISON has accused the Tories of causing the biggest NHS crisis “in history” 2025-10-05 [Mirror]

Sellafield construction strike action escalates 2025-10-04 [Construction Enquirer]

Wirral council Biffa bin workers in Unite secure 5% pay win 2025-10-03 [Unite]

Birkenhead, Chorley and Preston bus strikes off after inflation busting pay victory 2025-10-03 [Unite]

First Manchester strikes called off after 'exceptional' pay deal won 2025-10-03 [Unite]

This month in labour history

This month in labour history

4-10-1936 At Cable Street, London, thousands of trade unionists, socialists and communists throw up barricades to block the British Union of Fascists from marching through the Jewish neighbourhoods of the East End. [more]

6-10-1913 The conference of the Miners Federation passes a motion in favour of a general strike in Britain to support Dublin's locked out workers, with only one vote against. [more]

25-10-1895 Socialist and feminist Edith Lanchester captured by her family and institutionalised for opposing the institution of marriage [more]