A century on from the UK’s only ever general strike, the major federation for organised labour in Britain must learn to be more effective.
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How do you keep the sympathy of people whose lives you are making more difficult?
The Deliveroo strike shows even gig workers can find ways to push back if they feel they are being underpaid.
How the rise and fall of coal mining is central to fully understanding modern Britain.
Air France directors weren’t the only ones left exposed, after protests over jobs turned violent.
Rocketing rents? Fierce protests against housing policies against the interests of the poor? Cereal Killer attacks have many predecessors - particularly Glasgow in 1915.
The chorus chanting ‘America needs a raise!’ will undoubtedly grow as Labor Day approaches. They’re not wrong, but America needs more than that.
The debate about museums as businesses is in danger of trumping defences of museums and galleries as public institutions.
The RMT’s successful negotiation will be envied, but the union has advantages few of its peers can rival as bargaining power is slowly diluted.
From rail strike threats to new anti-strike legislation, the Tory election success looks set to bring tensions to the boil in the coming weeks and months.
The threat of a strike can cause trepidation among the public - but where would we be without them?
After a decade of narrowing fiscal deficits, South Africa has borrowed heavily since 2009 to support the economy. The debt pile exposes the country to the risk of a sell-off by foreign bond holders
A chorus of teachers, unions and French intellectuals have criticised reforms in lower secondary school.
The bank holiday strikes may cause transport chaos, but they’ll pack a big punch for industry workers.
While Russia faces global disapproval over its role in Ukraine, president Vladimir Putin has trouble brewing at home. A shared sense of nationalist fervour had helped to underpin an approval rating that…
Since the election of the coalition government in 2010, the UK has experienced a series of initiatives to reform the structure, funding and operation of the public sector. Under the umbrella of economic…
The Tory manifesto pledge to change the law on strike ballots are more radical than any of those introduced by Margaret Thatcher. If the government is re-elected and the proposals become law, industrial…
As the trade unions embark on another co-ordinated day of action they could soon be embroiled in another battle. The government is adopting a harder line through plans to bolster the law on industrial…
If China is the world’s factory, then one of its core production lines is playing up. Last month, mass protests kicked off in the southern manufacturing city of Dongguan. Some 40,000 workers went on strike…
Once considered the key issue in industrial relations, strikes appeared to be in a permanent state of decline in western Europe in the two decades before 2008. But the financial crisis and the austerity…
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