As the situation worsens, we are working longer hours for less pay. This is all why the richest get richer. Make no mistake, the richest are not suffering under this crisis. The burden is being put on the working class. By uniting, coming together and fighting against the system, we can win. Join us and fight. Read more about the suffering for worker’s under the crisis.
Last year the University of Nottingham Living Wage Campaign, an alliance of trade unions, student societies and local campaigning groups, managed to get the University to agree to pay the living wage, resulting in a pay increase for 400 staff. This victory has been undercut however as it has Read more…
Precarious employment has become a typical feature of our lives under capitalism. More and more, workers are being forced to accept low pay, poor working conditions and minimal rights as standard. Over 10 million people in Britain are currently considered to be in precarious work. This includes zero hours Read more…
Recently I’ve been trying to get a pay rise (working as a waiter in a busy Japanese restaurant). Moving from £9 per hour to £10 per hour (which would still fall below the London Living Wage or any measure of decency). Even if this is achieved, I’m aware that Read more…
On 30 October the IWGB will be facing Uber at the Court of Appeal as part of the ongoing battle over workers’ rights. A victory would put us one step closer to ending the attack on our rights that so-called “gig economy” bosses are conducting with near impunity. This is Read more…
On 4 October hospitality workers from McDonald’s, Wetherspoon’s and TGI Friday’s will take strike action demanding decent pay and working conditions. The Marxist Student Federation will be on the McDonald’s picket line in Brixton on Thursday 4 October, and we will be at the strike rally in Leicester Square at Read more…
In the 2017-18 academic year there were 95 students at UK universities who took their own lives. 10 suicides have taken place just at the University of Bristol since October 2016. Meanwhile, there are five times as many first-year students across the country now reporting mental health issues than Read more…
Workers at two Wetherspoon pubs in Brighton are being balloted for strike action, with demands raised for a £10 per hour wage and union recognition. The ballot has been called by the Bakers Food and Allied Workers Union (BFAWU), which was behind the historic ‘McStrike’ action last year, organising Read more…
Members of the University and College Union (UCU) in 110 colleges in England and 147 UK universities are being balloted for strike action in a row over pay. The ballots opened on Thursday 30 August and will close on Friday 19 October. The dispute in universities has arisen after Read more…
The Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG) recently reported that working class families with parents in low-earning jobs cannot afford even basic necessities. Basic necessities are those costs that families simply cannot survive without: food, clothing, rent, utilities, etc. This report, unsettling though it may be, can hardly be surprising Read more…
“I am going to lose £700. Travel card expenses to and from work cost me £98. No childcare. I support my three children back home (overseas). I can’t afford rent and bills with this change.” “The change in hours could force me to quit, doing so would make me Read more…
“The election of France’s youngest-ever president at 39 years of age, by an overwhelming majority, marked a new chapter in France’s history.” The words of Stephane Legrand’s article for a Warwick University publication (the Boar) are an enthusiastic voice for the liberal leader Emmanuel Macron; a voice that is poorly Read more…
University staff in the UK faced changes to their pension scheme that an independent study confirmed would result in losses of over £200,000 in retirement. Obviously, staff chose to fight this injustice. After two weeks of industrial action, UCU and the employer Universities UK (UUK) offered to create a ‘Joint Read more…
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