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Teachers to vote on strike action over workload 2025-10-09 [BBC]

Teachers to vote on strike action over workload 2025-10-09 [BBC]

Rent controls return to Scotland 2025-10-01 [Morning Star]

Nautilus secures pay deal at Orkney Ferries 2025-09-25 [Nautilus]

Transition on our Terms: What oil and gas workers are demanding from governments and industry 2025-09-21 [Platform London]

Edinburgh airport workers back new pay deal averting strikes 2025-09-20 [Unite]

Clydebank TUC makes the case for Welfare Not Warfare 2025-09-19 [The Morning Star]

Alexander Dennis to Keep Scottish Manufacturing Sites Operational 2025-09-18 [bus-news]

Unite raises alarm over Scotland’s social care crisis reaching ‘point of no return’ 2025-09-15 [Unite the union]

Social care nearing point of no return, warns Unite 2025-09-15 [The Morning Star]

Strikes at three Scottish universities in one day 2025-09-11 [BBC]

University staff balloted for strike action over job cuts 2025-09-10 [Standard]

Edinburgh University staff begin five-day strike 2025-09-08 [BBC]

Unite delivers sweet pay deal for Tunnock’s factory workers 2025-09-05 [Unite the union]

Striking hotel workers in Scotland win an end to zero-hour contracts 2025-09-04 [IUF]

Workers at Glasgow's SSCPA balloted on strike action 2025-09-03 [The Times]

Home care workers tell of ‘terror’ while working alone at night 2025-09-01 [Home Care Insight]

Head of Scotland's biggest trade union suspended 2025-09-01 [BBC]

Head of Scotland's biggest trade union suspended 2025-09-01 [BBC]

Union chief accuses asylum protesters of 'weaponsing' teenager's rape for political gain 2025-09-01 [Dailyrecord]

Trade union boss ‘suspended over sexual misconduct claims’ 2025-09-01 [Telegraph]

Grangemouth workers slam Starmer's ‘empty promises’ 2025-08-25 [Morning Star]

Historic victory for Govan hotel workers ends zero hours contracts and gains of up to 10% pay increases 2025-08-25 [Morning Star]

Trade union secures win for Glasgow Village hotel staff 2025-08-24 [The National]

Village Hotel Glasgow strike secures pay deal for workers 2025-08-24 [The Herald]

OCS workers at Edinburgh airport back strike action 2025-08-21 [Unite]

Scottish Greens call for comprehensive union education in schools 2025-08-20 [Morning Star]

Greens call for trade union education in every school 2025-08-18 [Scottish Greens]

Jeremy Corbyn to address Glasgow Village hotel picket 2025-08-16 [The Times]

'It's unfair': Young Glasgow workers revolt over wage discrimination 2025-08-13 [The Herald]

Starmer warned not to ‘betray’ young workers over wage discrimination 2025-08-13 [STUC]

Young people forced into debt due to low wage rates 2025-08-12 [The Herald]

Flexible working builds workforce and worker power, says Scottish TUC 2025-08-12 [Morning Star]

Scottish Government gave £77m to secretive tax haven firms 2025-08-11 [The Ferret]

Orkney Ferries workers vote for industrial action after rejecting pay offer HomeNewsArticle 2025-08-02 [RMT]

Glasgow airport summer strike action averted as Unite delivers major pay win 2025-08-02 [Unite]

Glasgow Village Hotel set for historic strike action 2025-08-01 [Unite]

Glasgow Trades Union Council defends the right to protest 2025-08-01 [Morning Star]

Unite delivers Menzies Aviation pay deal for 300 Edinburgh airport workers 2025-07-31 [Unite the union]

Unite members fly-high with pay deals at Aberdeen airport 2025-07-30 [Unite the union]

Anas Sarwar 'cannot win Holyrood election without Labour ending oil licence ban' warns union boss 2025-07-24 [The Scotsman]

Scottish Water workers celebrate pay victory 2025-07-17 [Unite]

Workers at Village Hotel in Glasgow in historic strike vote 2025-07-16 [Unite]

Unite members back COSLA pay offer 2025-07-10 [Unite]

Glasgow subway strike action ends in time for TRNSMT festival 2025-07-10 [Unite]

Sexual harassment endemic in Scottish workplaces, landmark Unite survey finds 2025-07-08 [Unite]

Almost 10% of women in Scotland 'sexually harassed at work' 2025-07-08 [STV]

Ten per cent of Scottish women 'sexually assaulted at work' 2025-07-08 [The Herald]

Statement on the Campaign to Save Aberdeen Arts Centre 2025-07-07 [Society of Authors]

Paisley celebrates Sma’ shot weavers’ victory 2025-07-07 [Morning Star]

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]