Paul Couchman, Surrey Unison branch secretary (personal capacity) and Socialist Party member In one of the best local demos for many years, Surrey County Unison members turned out, alongside their sisters and brothers from across the South East region, to protest in the constituency of Philip Hammond MP. The rally was symbolically held at the […]
Socialist Party members in Surrey council Unison A week before Christmas, Surrey County Council told over 300 adult social workers they weren’t entitled to the incremental rise that had been agreed and they’d received from 1 July. This amounted to an average of a £1,500 a year pay cut. The council Unison branch went into […]
Teacher Stella Collier and health worker James Morbin are standing for the Trade Unionist & Socialist Coalition on the Blackbird Leys estate in city and county council by-elections on 27 November. Rather than stand up and fight wage cuts and privatisation, or back strikers fighting for a wage rise, Labour councils like Oxford have meekly carried out Con-Dem […]
Solidarity with Portsmouth RMT campaign for a living wage at sea! Support the struggle against poverty pay on Condor Ferries, paying £2.30 an hour to Ukrainian crew, with the connivance of Portsmouth city councillors who refuse to lift a finger against this outrage. 16 July 2014 One million public sector workers were on strike last […]