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Staff begin first day of strike action to save ‘only’ day centre for people living with dementia [South London Community Matters] 15-05-2026


Disabled man spied upon by bosses wins £300k payout [BBC] 14-05-2026


Unions demand action over ‘increasingly dire’ economy [Morning Star] 14-05-2026


CWU backs action after wave of suicides [Morning Star] 13-05-2026


Stansted Airport strikes ended as ABM workers accept better pay deal [Unite] 12-05-2026



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British billionaires double as workers squeezed 2026-05-15 [Morning Star]

NUJ responds after Nigel Farage shares journalist’s Press Card on social media 2026-05-15 [NUJ]

Staff begin first day of strike action to save ‘only’ day centre for people living with dementia 2026-05-15 [South London Community Matters]

Radical change needed for public services 2026-05-15 [UNISON]

Unions demand action over ‘increasingly dire’ economy 2026-05-14 [Morning Star]

Cuba FBU conference affirms solidarity with socialist Cuba after ambassador’s address 2026-05-14 [Morning Star]

UCU lecturers launch strike at Heriot-Watt University 2026-05-14 [Morning Star]

England Children’s social care managers in Bath escalate strike action over pay and grading 2026-05-14 [UNISON]

PCS responds as the King's Speech fails to address cost of living crisis 2026-05-14 [PCS]

FBU leader stresses importance of Together alliance in fighting the far right 2026-05-14 [Morning Star]

RMT Union Members Conduct New Strikes at Royal Fleet Auxiliary Over Pay 2026-05-14 [Maritime Executive]

Disabled man spied upon by bosses wins £300k payout 2026-05-14 [BBC]

Royal College of Art workers dismissed after sexual harassment protest 2026-05-13 [Morning Star]

CWU backs shorter working week campaign 2026-05-13 [Morning Star]

Unions demand government acts on public interest and rejects Rosebank 2026-05-13 [Morning Star]

CWU backs action after wave of suicides 2026-05-13 [Morning Star]

Wales Trade unions' shopping list lands on new Welsh cabinet desks 2026-05-13 [Morning Star]

UK Labour Rights Monitor Welcomes Guilty Verdict in London HKETO Espionage Case 2026-05-13 [HKLRM]

England University staff to 'escalate' strike action 2026-05-13 [BBC]

England RCA cleaners fired after protesting sexual harassment and workplace abuse 2026-05-13 [IER]

Scotland No more annual STUC: a study in hypocrisy 2026-05-13 [The Morning Star]

The King's speech 2026-05-13 [NEU]

England Young finance worker loses finger in horrific London office door accident 2026-05-13 [The Workers Union]

BBC staff fear meagre pay rise after bosses forgo own increase 2026-05-13 [The Guardian]

The fight to stop Reform UK goes on 2026-05-12 [Unison]

New HSE guidance on deadly stone worktops inadequate as Unite calls for ban 2026-05-12 [Unite]

POA launches ‘war against the government’ over right to strike 2026-05-12 [Morning Star]

Uniting the industrial with the political is key to tackling the far right, CWU fringe hears 2026-05-12 [Morning Star]

Stansted Airport strikes ended as ABM workers accept better pay deal 2026-05-12 [Unite]

Unite saves jobs for Heathrow catering workers left in limbo by 'disgraceful' employers 2026-05-12 [Unite]

Encirc Elton industrial action ended as workers accept safety improvements 2026-05-12 [Unite]

CWU president urges branches to back Cuba Solidarity Campaign 2026-05-12 [Morning Star]

Labour ‘isn’t working’, Rayner tells CWU 2026-05-12 [Morning Star]

Campaigners and union reps demand NHS ‘cease all contracts with Palantir’ 2026-05-12 [Morning Star]

Hundreds of events announced to counter hate ahead of Robinson demo 2026-05-12 [Morning Star]

CWU retains Labour affiliation but demands Party changes direction 2026-05-12 [Morning Star]

England Equity members show solidarity for West End strike vote 2026-05-11 [Equity]

England Strike could cost West End bosses hundreds of thousands of pounds a day – Equity 2026-05-11 [The Stage]

England Cambridge University pay strikes by hundreds of staff escalate 2026-05-11 [Unite]

Killer kitchen dust banned after lung disease deaths of young workers 2026-05-11 [The i Paper]

Forget the AI job apocalypse. AI’s real threat is worker control and surveillance 2026-05-11 [The Guardian]

Radical approach needed if Labour is to succeed 2026-05-11 [Unison]

Strike action begins at Crane Building Services and Utilities 2026-05-11 [GMB]

Doncaster airport saved after union campaign 2026-05-11 [GMB]

British Steel nationalised in 'decisive' intervention 2026-05-11 [GMB]

Farage would make Thatcher's union attacks ‘look like small fry,’ warns Equity 2026-05-11 [Morning Star]

Britain an outsourcing ‘outlier’ 2026-05-11 [Morning Star]

CWU delegates fear current anti-racist strategy is ‘alienating working-class people’ 2026-05-11 [Morning Star]

CWU delegates condemn Iran war 2026-05-11 [Morning Star]

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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]