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UK Two firefighters and member of public die in blaze at old RAF base [BBC] 16-05-2025
UK FBU responds to fatalities at Bicester fire incident [FBU] 16-05-2025
UK Firefighters killed in business park blaze named [BBC] 16-05-2025
UK Support the Workplace Day of Action for Palestine [TUC] 15-05-2025
UK Scotland NHS Scotland 8 per cent pay offer over two years accepted by Unite members [Unite] 15-05-2025
UK Unions and green groups call for £1.9bn emergency funding for North Sea workers [The Standard] 14-05-2025
Saudi Arabia / UK Pressure grows on Fifa as reports warn of serious risk to workers amid Saudi World Cup building boom [The Guardian] 14-05-2025
UK Government must remain “laser focused” on growth mission to reverse years of Tory stagnation [TUC] 13-05-2025
Sudan / UK Sudanese Bin Workers Send Solidarity to Striking Birmingham Bin Workers [MENA SN] 13-05-2025
UK Migrant workers prop up the UK’s social care system. Now we’re being forced out [BIJ] 13-05-2025
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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]
14-05-1771 Socialist philanthropist Robert Owen is born [more]
30-05-1984 Miners leader Arthur Scargill, along with 81 other pickets, is arrested at the Orgreave coking plant in South Yorkshire. [more]