Fighting Back

NHS workers in London have burst onto the streets in a big, coordinated pay strike. Refuse workers in two boroughs and housing maintenance in another two are hot on their heels.

We transferred over from the private employer Serco into the NHS. Porters, security, domestics, catering, ward hosts. Some departments have been given the £1,655 lump sum that was paid to NHS staff, but not all.

Over 2800 NHS workers in Unite will be on strike, over safe staffing and pay, including cleaners, caterers, porters, nurses and pathologists.

Striking workers at St Mungo’s homelessness charity have voted to accept an offer after 13 weeks of continuous strike.

Many RMT members in the London Transport region are dismayed at the calling-off of strike action on London Underground.

Camden Unison members who work for NSL parking enforcement services started indefinite strike action on 24 July. There was a 100% yes vote by members across three sites in the borough in their fight for £15.90 an hour.

Health workers at Barts hospital trust in East London, took strike action to win a pay rise and to be brought back in-house.

Cleaners, carers and concierges at nine different workplaces across London are striking together for better pay and conditions. The United Voices of the World (UVW) union organises this predominantly migrant workforce and has coordinated the actions

Six days of all-grades strikes, and another day by station grades, has pushed back attempts by the Labour London mayor Sadiq Khan and the Tory government to attack pensions on London Underground.

Unite members at the homelessness charity St Mungo’s started a month-long strike from 30 May with Socialist Party members visiting picket lines across London, as well as in Bristol, Oxford and Brighton.