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IKEA face anger across UK, in unions, public and parliament

September 4, 2020 // 0 Comments

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 sick with Covid-19, is ...

VOICE EXTRA: Corporate thuggery at British Airways

August 10, 2020 // 0 Comments

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 as capitalists and their ...

VOICE EXTRA: Demand an immediate £12-an-hour minimum for the ‘Minimum Wage Heroes’

April 1, 2020 // 0 Comments

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 lives on the line.” ...

SSP activists mark minimum wage increase with push for £10-an-hour

April 11, 2019 // 0 Comments

by Voice Reporter · The National Minimum Wage went up by 38p on Monday April 1st from £7.83/per hour to £8.21. The SSP marked this over the weekend by taking campaigns onto the streets with stalls ...

Record numbers swindled out of statutory minimum wage

October 5, 2018 // 0 Comments

by Colin Fox, SSP national co-spokesperson • One million people in Scotland live in poverty today according to Government figures and most of them are working. It used to be the case that work was ...

Scottish Socialist Party £10/hr demo puts the bite on Apple

February 9, 2018 // 0 Comments

by Hugh Cullen and Michael Davidson • The Lothians branch of the SSP organised a demonstration at the Apple Store on Princes Street recently, demanding a £10-an-hour Living Wage for all their UK ...

‘We can’t give up on Zero Hours Contracts just because the Tories have a majority’

June 5, 2015 // 0 Comments

Richie Venton spoke to Alan Milne, Scottish Organiser of the Bakers, Food & Allied Workers Union (BFAWU) on current events and campaigns What’s been happening lately on the campaign amongst ...

The more Cameron vilifies the SNP, the more Scots voters flock to the nationalists

April 30, 2015 // 0 Comments

by Colin Fox, SSP national co-spokesperson This General Election appears to be a foregone conclusion. The polls all predict another hung Parliament. And the more David Cameron vilifies the SNP (in ...

A people’s manifesto

April 30, 2015 // 0 Comments

by Sandra Webster, SSP national co-spokesperson We should be proud of our manifesto which is a blueprint for our policies. Policies which present our vision of independence and a statement of intent ...

Homeless caseworkers’ strike

April 30, 2015 // 0 Comments

by Richie Venton, SSP national workplace organiser Seventy caseworkers in Glasgow city council’s Homeless Service have been staging an indefinite strike since 31 March. These workers, members of ...