Fighting Back

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.

The richest local authority area in Europe was rocked by a workforce-wide pay strike on 25 May. Members of general unions GMB and Unite are demanding a rise of 15% or £5,000, whichever is greater.

RMT members on London Underground have voted again to renew our strike mandate in defence of jobs, pensions and agreements. 96% voted to strike on a turnout of 56%. Over 50% of all eligible voters were in favour of strike action.