IKEA face anger across UK, in unions, public and parliament
by Ken Ferguson, Editor, Scottish Socialist Voice · The battle to win reinstatement for Glasgow IKEA shop steward Richie Venton, and 100 per cent average wages for workers ...
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Imagine how to fight the slaughter of jobs and wages!
by Richie Venton, SSP national workplace organiser · “We’re All In This Together” declares the signage in one famous supermarket. Far from it! The household name ...
VOICE EXTRA: Corporate thuggery at British Airways
by Richie Venton, SSP national workplace organiser · British Airways bosses have given us a toxic taste of the jobs slaughter and wage-slashing that millions of workers face ...
VOICE EXTRA: Tory lockdown mayhem – organise workers for safety first
by Richie Venton, SSP national workplace organiser · Boris Johnson’s TV broadcast to ‘the nation’ and subsequent twists, turns and publication of documents ...
VOICE EXTRA: Union membership – questions of life and death
International Workers’ Memorial Day, 28 April · Every year more people are killed at work than in wars. Most don’t die of mystery ailments, or in tragic ...
Tories cost workers’ lives
Lions led by donkeys in the war on C-19 · “Lions led by donkeys” was the wildly popular insult levelled at incompetent, aloof Generals as they threw masses of soldiers ...
VOICE EXTRA: Demand an immediate £12-an-hour minimum for the ‘Minimum Wage Heroes’
by Richie Venton, SSP national workplace organiser · As even the BBC’s Panorama was obliged to express it, “millions of minimum wage heroes are putting their ...
VOICE EXTRA: Four fights – one struggle!
As University and College Union (UCU) members at 74 universities stage an escalating 14 days’ strike action, SSP national workplace organiser Richie Venton spoke to ...
Workers and youth unite against capitalist polluters
by Richie Venton, SSP national workplace organiser · As we live through the molten heat, thunder and lightning, floods and general climate chaos of recent weeks, new reports ...
Seafarers who took on fascists are honoured with new Glasgow memorial
The Glasgow Shipping branch of the RMT union recently hosted a gathering of local, national and international supporters at the unveiling of a plaque and statue on the banks ...
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