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Tributes paid to crew of fishing boat missing off Lewis 2026-10-15 [BBC]

Sacked GTA workers rally at Rockstar employment tribunal 2026-10-15 [Morning Star]

Unite workers join UCU, Unison and EIS comrades on strike at Glasgow Caledonian University 2026-10-15 [Morning Star]

STUC launches ‘workers’ inquiry’ into Scottish government cuts and closures 2026-10-15 [Morning Star]

Mass sacking Rockstar bosses face the tribunal in Glasgow 2026-10-14 [Morning Star]

Glasgow Caledonian University set for closure as Unite members join strike action 2026-10-14 [Unite]

North Sea strikes could see fuel supplies 'severely disrupted', warns union 2026-10-06 [STV]

Glasgow City Council and Unison reach agreement in pay and grading row 2026-10-06 [BBC]

Glasgow City Council and Unison reach agreement in pay and grading row 2026-10-06 [BBC]

Wood Group offshore workers launch 48-hour strike in row over pay 2026-10-06 [BBC]

Glasgow council workers face pay cuts in fire-and-rehire plan after union talks break down 2026-10-04 [The Guardian]

Glasgow Caledonian University staff to strike for two weeks over compulsory redundancies 2026-10-01 [STV]

GMB to escalate strikes at Diageo 2026-10-01 [The Morning Star]

Glasgow City Council begins fresh pay talks with union and Gilruth 2026-10-01 [BBC]

Unions call on Labour to show 'wee bit of humility' during Glasgow equal pay debate 2026-09-29 [The Herald]

Union anger at Scottish Labour 'claiming ownership' of fire and rehire motion 2026-09-29 [The Scotsman]

Diageo workers strike to bring distillery to 'standstill' 2026-09-28 [The Herald]

Thousands of staff at top UK university to begin five-week strike action 2026-09-28 [The Independent]

Diageo employees go on strike at 'Europe's largest grain distillery' 2026-09-28 [The Scotsman]

Glasgow City Council pauses fire and rehire plans for 25,000 staff after union backlash 2026-09-26 [Glasgow World]

Sandie Peggie's views had 'no bearing' on refusing legal support, union says 2026-09-26 [BBC]

Glasgow City Council pauses plan to fire and rehire 23,000 staff 2026-09-26 [BBC]

Unions furious after SNP-run council threatens to ‘fire and rehire’ 23,000 employees 2026-09-25 [Morning Star]

Up to 25,000 Glasgow council workers to be 'sacked' as equal pay talks break down 2026-09-25 [Glasgow Live]

Glasgow City Council to fire and rehire over 23,000 employees 2026-09-25 [BBC]

Nurse tells employment tribunal her union representative did not take her objections to sharing female changing rooms with a transgender colleague seriously 2026-09-23 [BBC]

Workers could strike over 'devastating' proposals to close older people day care centres 2026-09-23 [STV]

UCU launch fresh wave of strikes at Glasgow Caley 2026-09-23 [The Morning Star]

UCU dismiss bosses' ‘wishful thinking’ on Dundee strike 2026-09-21 [Morning Star]

University facing 'worst crisis since WW2' as staff begin five-week strike 2026-09-21 [BBC]

Five-week strike against cuts at Dundee University 2026-09-21 [Morning Star]

'Strike action is always a last resort': Glasgow Caledonian staff walk out as 100 jobs face the axe 2026-09-17 [Glasgow World]

'Last orders’ for Diageo as strike action announced by Unite 2026-09-17 [Unite]

Glasgow Airport workers pay takes off with new pay deal 2026-09-16 [Unite]

Rockstar had a mole in the union worker Discord server 'for over two and a half years', GTA 6 company reveals during legal battle 2026-09-12 [Rock Paper Shotgun]

Sacked Grand Theft Auto worker claims Rockstar staff placed on 'watch list' 2026-09-12 [BBC]

'Justice at last feels within reach:' Fired Rockstar workers rally in Glasgow as union busting tribunal begins 2026-09-11 [Game Developer]

Strike action set to hit Diageo’s Cameronbridge distillery, over job cuts 2026-09-10 [Unite]

Minister backs warning over Pink Ladies Glasgow protest 2026-09-10 [The Herald]

Glasgow Tribunal to Hear Rockstar Games Union-Busting Claims Starting Thursday 2026-09-09 [Northeast Times]

Unions round on Swinney's NHS ‘slash and burn’ programme 2026-09-02 [Morning Star]

Ministers must ditch ‘profiteering’ on Scotland’s railways, say Aslef 2026-09-01 [Morning Star]

Glasgow council workers 'walk out in tears' as thousands to be cut from wages over 'equal pay' 2026-09-01 [Glasgow Live]

Union urge John Swinney to intervene in City of Glasgow College strike 2026-08-31 [The Times]

Cutting Scottish fire services during a climate crisis is a recipe for disaster 2026-08-24 [Morning Star]

Dunfermline based FMC Technologies workers in strike threat over pay 2026-08-13 [Unite]

Heriot-Watt academic staff begin two-day strike over job cut plans 2026-08-07 [Morning Star]

Death of young salmon farm worker ‘confirms’ union’s safety fears 2026-07-29 [The Morning Star]

FBU Scotland slams First Minister's ‘empty plaudits’ after decade of cuts 2026-07-23 [Morning Star]

PFA Scotland's new training camp gives free agents a team again 2026-07-19 [FIFPRO]

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]