Support BA Cabin Crew Strike!
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Just like us, British Airways cabin crew are transport workers facing attacks on their jobs, pay and conditions.
Anti-union laws
Anti-Union Laws Strike Again
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Last month, an unelected, unaccountable, (probably) octogenarian, public-school-educated chap in a wig ruled that RMT's ballot for industrial action on EDF Powerlink was illegal.
Tories talk of strike ban
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If they win the election, the Tories want to privatise the whole of Royal Mail. They also want to change the law to ban many of even those strikes still legal under the current anti-union laws.
Redmond O'Neill, Socialist Action and "respect for the dead"
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Redmond O’Neill, a leader of the Socialist Action group, has died aged 55 of cancer.
Support Ark Tribe!
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Ark Tribe, a building worker in South Australia, faces six months' jail for refusing to meet a special police force set up for the construction industry and give investigators names of other union members involved in getting up a petition on his site about health and safety concerns.
This Re-Ballot - And No More
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We have still seen no sign of RMT's re-ballot, but can only assume that the ballot papers will be coming soon and every effort is being made to get the notification legally watertight.
When Our Strike Was Banned But We Walked Out Anyway
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In 2001, at the height of our fight against the introduction of PPP, London Underground scuttled to its lawyers to get an RMT strike declared illegal. RMT members went ahead and walked out anyway.
The Yes Vote and the Anti-Union Laws
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83% of us have voted ‘Yes’ to going on strike. But we will have to do the ballot again. What’s happened?
Tubeworker 9/4/09: Huge Yes Vote - But Anti-Union Laws Stop Strikes
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The new issue of Tubeworker reports on the massive vote by RMT members for industrial action over jobs, pay and bullying, but also the fact that the union is re-balloting because of legal threa
Big Yes Vote - But Anti-Union Laws Stop the Action
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London Underground staff have voted by a huge majority to fight back over job cuts, pay and management bullying.