Fighting Back

Library workers’ determined resistance has pushed back the Hackney Labour council’s proposed cuts to library services. This is another victory for the local community as well as the workforce.

On 6 and 7 February, bus drivers at Lea Interchange garage in east London will be out on strike again against bullying management. Hundreds of workers have stood on the picket lines on the two previous two-day strikes.

University and College Union (UCU) members at WM College in Camden will be taking part in the national strike action for pay parity on 14-16 January.

Members of the National Education Union (NEU) at Little Ilford School in Newham were out on the picket line on 8 January. The strike was of teachers and support staff together, over workload.

“CCCG, shame on you! You need to listen to the UCU!” That was the bold message from a fantastic lively picket line of University and College Union (UCU) members at Enfield College in north London on 10 December.

Members of the RMT on London Underground are taking five days of rolling strike action in a dispute over pay and working hours. Senior managers got rises up to 22%, but there is no money for workers’ demands.

Bus drivers in West London, members of Unite employed by First Bus, were on strike over pay for 48 hours at the end of August into September.

A recent report found that Croydon Council’s finances were “deteriorating rapidly”, which has led the minister for local government, Jim McMahon, to prepare sending in unelected commissioners to run the council until July 2027.

NEU members at three schools in the north-east London borough of Waltham Forest are taking six days of strike action, alongside several other schools in London, demanding the removal of performance-related pay (PRP).

Workers across London are fighting for decent pay and against attacks on conditions over the next week in a mini London strike wave.