16 February 2022

Just Eat strike spreads and forces concessions

The Just Eat/Stuart delivery drivers strike is spreading. Couriers in Middlesbrough and Dewsbury have joined the action, with drivers in Leicester meeting to plan action. Chesterfield and Sunderland couriers

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9 February 2022

Just Eat couriers drive chief exec out of town as strike spreads

Striking Just Eat/Stuart couriers and supporters scared off a McDonald's big cheese from visiting the Sheffield Hillsborough restaurant recently

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2 February 2022

Coventry bins: all-out against strike-breaking Labour council

There’s a packed and determined picket line in winter weather each strike day

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Sheffield Just Eat strikers step up action and hold mass rally, photo by Alistair Tice

26 January 2022

Sheffield Just Eat strikers step up action and hold mass rally: Over 100 trade unionists and students in Sheffield rallied in support of the Just Eat delivery drivers on their 31st day of targeted strike action against company pay cuts. Photo by Alistair Tice

Sheffield Just Eat strikers step up action and hold mass rally: Over 100 trade unionists and students in Sheffield rallied in support of the Just Eat delivery drivers on their 31st day of targeted strike action against company pay cuts. Photo by Alistair Tice

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26 January 2022

Worksop Wincanton logistics workers begin ninth week of strike action

450 Unite members are in their ninth week of strike action against Wincanton - the logistics company running the vast Worksop site for B&Q.

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19 January 2022

Sheffield Just Eat couriers speak about strike

Just Eat takeaway food delivery drivers have been striking against pay cuts in Sheffield since 6 December in what has become the longest continuous such action in the gig economy in the UK

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Coventry bin workers on strike, January 2022, photo by Dave Nellist

12 January 2022

Socialist Party members joined the picket lines of striking bin workers in Coventry fighting for better pay. January 2022

Socialist Party members joined the picket lines of striking bin workers in Coventry fighting for better pay. January 2022

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12 January 2022

South Yorkshire bus strikes spreading and getting stronger

After two one-week strikes before Christmas, and now indefinite strike action since the New Year, the South Yorkshire Stagecoach busworkers' strikes are getting stronger

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15 December 2021

Sheffield couriers escalate and spread action

Food delivery couriers working for Stuart Delivery (a subsidiary of DPD Group and a subcontractor of JustEat) are into their second week of indefinite strike action in Sheffield.

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15 December 2021

Stagecoach victory

Union rep says: "We're stronger than we have ever been before".

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15 December 2021

Worksop Wincanton depot strike builds

After a week on strike, followed by a week's overtime ban, 460 Unite members at B&Q's main depot in Worksop are back out on strike for another week.

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8 December 2021

Thousands of Tesco warehouse workers to strike

Supermarket giant Tesco is set to be hit by a series of strikes at its distribution centres in the run-up to Christmas.

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8 December 2021

Mail attacks tube strikers by stealing socialist's image

The Daily Mail's distain for working-class people will not surprise many of our readers, neither will its shoddy journalism

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1 December 2021

South Yorkshire Stagecoach drivers strike against measly 1% pay offer

Stagecoach bosses in South Yorkshire have always tried to play off one depot against another, with different settlement dates and pay rates across Barnsley, Rotherham and the two Sheffield garages

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17 November 2021

Stagecoach drivers win £10.50 an hour

Unite members voted to accept a deal

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17 November 2021

Leeds cab drivers protest against taxi rank move

Over 50 taxi drivers protested in Leeds on 10 November, against proposals by Network Rail and West Yorkshire combined authority to relocate the hackney carriage taxi rank to a space beneath the station

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20 October 2021

Gwent valleys Stagecoach bus drivers strike for fair pay

It was pouring with rain but pickets had been out since 4am this morning at Blackwood, Cwmbran and Brynmawr Stagecoach depots fighting for a decent pay rise.

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13 October 2021

Readers' comments

Tough for some: Life is tough for everybody. The government cut in Universal Credit is forcing tens of thousands into poverty at a time when prices are set to rise. People will have to choose between heating the house

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29 September 2021

End profit-fuelled crisis

Queues at petrol stations, fuel bills rising, the risk of empty supermarket shelves for Christmas - all symptoms of a sick system.

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29 September 2021

Driver shortages - a view from the inside

Millions of workers have been travelling to work, hoping that they have enough fuel to get home or complete the school run

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