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Matt Trinder
Protesters during the Protect The Right To Strike march in L
BFAWU Conference 2024 / 12 June 2024
12 June 2024
Sarah Woolley BFAWU Conference
BFAWU Conference 2024 / 12 June 2024
12 June 2024
NHS hospital
BFAWU Conference 2024 / 11 June 2024
11 June 2024
GMB/Amazon
Industrial / 25 August 2023
25 August 2023
A group of people are brought in to Dungeness, Kent, onboard
Britain / 24 August 2023
24 August 2023
Campaigners call on the government to end its ‘cruel obsession with deterrence’ after figures show over 175,400 people are still waiting for an initial decision on their asylum applications
A general view of a Wilko store in Northampton, Northamptons
Britain / 24 August 2023
24 August 2023
A blue and silver Rolls Royce with a United Arab Emirates nu
Britain / 21 August 2023
21 August 2023
New data reveals soaring pay among top chief executives as workers struggle with the longest pay squeeze in 200 years
RMT
Industrial / 20 August 2023
20 August 2023
lucy
Lucy Letby / 20 August 2023
20 August 2023
Poverty
Britain / 18 August 2023
18 August 2023
Broken Piggy bank
Britain / 15 August 2023
15 August 2023
New figures showed further falls in take-home wages, rising unemployment and record numbers trapped on zero-hours contracts
Black worker Emmanuel Ikwuegbu / Creative Commons
Britain / 14 August 2023
14 August 2023
‘Jobs that are safe, secure and pay a living wage must replace precarious roles which exploit black workers’ labour,’ Black Activists Rising Against Cuts tells the Star
General secretary of the Trades Union Congress Paul Nowak
Britain / 10 August 2023
10 August 2023
‘Bringing in agency staff to deliver important services in place of strikers risks endangering public safety, worsening disputes and poisoning industrial relations,’ TUC says
RMT general secretary Mick Lynch joins the picket line outsi
Britain / 9 August 2023
9 August 2023
Thousands take stand against Tory plans to make railways less safe, secure and accessible by closing train ticket offices across England
TSSA general secretary hopeful Maryam Eslamdoust
Britain / 8 August 2023
8 August 2023
TSSA general secretary hopeful Maryam Eslamdoust tells the Star about the horrific spike in assaults on TfL staff
Assistant Chief Constable Richard Ocone, of Gloucestershire
Britain / 10 July 2023
10 July 2023
Shocking incident comes as unions warn violence is on the rise across Britain’s primaries and secondaries
Unite union general secretary Sharon Graham
Britain / 10 July 2023
10 July 2023
Unite chief issues stark warning to Starmer as union votes to remain affiliated with Labour
Durham Miners’ Association general secretary Alan Mardghum
DURHAM MINERS’ GALA ’23 / 8 July 2023
8 July 2023
Matt Trinder talks to Durham Miners’ Association general secretary ALAN MARDGHUM about the 2023 Durham Miners’ Gala, taking place this weekend
A collection of water bills
Britain / 5 July 2023
5 July 2023
GMB labels the move an ‘utter disgrace when companies have showered shareholders and bosses with billions’
The entrance to one of five Covid-19 wards at Whiston Hospit
Britain / 4 July 2023
4 July 2023
‘Significant’ number of doctors still suffering with ‘debilitating effects’ of long Covid, study warns
People take part in a rally in Trafalgar Square in London, i
Britain / 3 July 2023
3 July 2023
BMA survey reveals breakdown of trust as junior doctors brace for biggest walkout in NHS history
People listen to Kevin Courtney, Joint General Secretary Nat
Britain / 2 July 2023
2 July 2023
‘Labour will need to be prepared to go further if they are to begin to solve the current crisis,’ NAHT leader says
Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer
Britain / 2 July 2023
2 July 2023
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak during a press conference in Down
Britain / 30 June 2023
30 June 2023
Tories' belated NHS plan ignores a decade of eroding pay, critics warn
Cyclists are on strike over a 14-year pay freeze
Britain / 30 June 2023
30 June 2023
Britain / 27 June 2023
27 June 2023
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak
Britain / 26 June 2023
26 June 2023
Sunak and Social Care Minister refuse to accept public-sector wage recommendations
Ministry of Justice
Britain / 26 June 2023
26 June 2023
Ministry of Justice urged to intervene to stop a catastrophic breakdown of the service
RMT members on the picket line outside Edinburgh's Waverley
Britain / 22 June 2023
22 June 2023
20,000 railway workers to down tools on July 20, 22 and 29
Drinks being poured at a pub
Britain / 22 June 2023
22 June 2023
Staff at logistics giant GXO ballot for strikes over ‘draconian disciplinary matters,’ Unite warns
teacher
Britain / 21 June 2023
21 June 2023
post office
Britain / 20 June 2023
20 June 2023
Former prime minister David Cameron (right) leaving after gi
Britain / 19 June 2023
19 June 2023
Cameron heckled as he denies damage caused by years of Tory cuts at Covid-19 inquiry
Then Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne and then Pr
Britain / 19 June 2023
19 June 2023
‘Their policies weakened the foundations of our society by hollowing out our public services and shredding our safety net,’ TUC says
RMT regional organiser Gaz Jackson
BFAWU Conference 2023 / 13 June 2023
13 June 2023
EXHAUSTED: Firefighters break from attending the burning tow
Features / 12 June 2023
12 June 2023
Matt Trinder talks to firefighter BARRY JACKSON about his call for routine health monitoring of the front-line workforce, which was overwhelmingly endorsed at the FBU conference last month after years of campaigning
Delegates attending this year's BFAWU conference in Stafford
BFAWU Conference 2023 / 12 June 2023
12 June 2023
TUC’s Kate Bell cautions on dip in union membership
BFAWU member Dougie Johnston addresses conference (from yest
BFAWU Conference 2023 / 12 June 2023
12 June 2023
Migrant campaigner Loraine Masiya Mponela CREDIT: BFAWU/Luka
BFAWU Conference 2023 / 11 June 2023
11 June 2023
BFAWU's John Fox addresses the opening day of the union's an
BFAWU Conference 2023 / 11 June 2023
11 June 2023
GMB member and Glasgow Apple worker William Gibson (secnd fr
Britain / 7 June 2023
7 June 2023
But, Glasgow Apple Store workers tell GMB conference that young workers ‘often lack the knowledge of how to organise’
social care
Britain / 5 June 2023
5 June 2023
GMB union calls for public ownership of social care system
a preschool age child playing with plastic building blocks
Britain / 5 June 2023
5 June 2023
GMB members overwhelmingly back a motion at the union's 2023 congress demanding ‘free quality childcare for all parents to ensure work is affordable’
Gen sec Gary Smith addresses delegates + delegates vote. For
Britain / 4 June 2023
4 June 2023
Mick Whelan, general secretary of Aslef, joins union members
Britain / 31 May 2023
31 May 2023
Rail union slams demands for productivity to increase ‘by thousands of per cent’ while slashing wages
Poverty
Britain / 31 May 2023
31 May 2023
More than 300,000 children receive the Scottish Child Payment benefit
RAF Wethersfield in Essex. Braintree District Council has lo
Britain / 30 May 2023
30 May 2023
The Tories are ‘more concerned with creating a cruel and expensive hostile environment than investing in a workable system,’ campaigners charge