Socialist Appeal
The Marxist voice of Labour and youth
Drivers at Uber have achieved an important win, gaining legal recognition as employees. But to secure pay and rights, this court ruling needs to be backed up with organisation and struggle. Workers can only rely on their own strength and power.
Protests and strike action loom, as Unite members prepare to fight against a race to the bottom in the mechanical and electrical sector. The full strength of the union movement must be utilised to fight this attack on wages and conditions.
Despite a recent mass COVID outbreak, DVLA offices in Swansea are still not safe. The bosses have been deaf to workers’ concerns. PCS members must mobilise and strike to fight for safe working conditions.
Big Tech has been in the spotlight throughout the pandemic, as billionaire bosses get richer, and workers are exploited ever harder. But now tech workers – in the US and UK – are beginning to organise, unionise, and fight back.
University bosses have made a derisory 0% pay offer to academic staff in higher education. UCU members must reject this, and begin building for coordinated strike action across the sector. Workers and students: unite and fight!