workplace

VOICE EXTRA: Tory lockdown mayhem – organise workers for safety first

May 13, 2020 // 1 Comment

by Richie Venton, SSP national workplace organiser · Boris Johnson’s TV broadcast to ‘the nation’ and subsequent twists, turns and publication of documents on ‘rebuilding the ...

VOICE EXTRA: Union membership – questions of life and death

April 27, 2020 // 0 Comments

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 “accidents”. They die ...

Tories cost workers’ lives

April 10, 2020 // 0 Comments

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 into senseless slaughter ...

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.” ...

VOICE EXTRA: Four fights – one struggle!

February 18, 2020 // 0 Comments

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 David McKee, UCU member at ...

Workers and youth unite against capitalist polluters

August 16, 2019 // 0 Comments

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 on the catastrophic ...

Fight to save every Tesco job

February 8, 2019 // 0 Comments

by Richie Venton, SSP national workplace organiser · Tesco workers have reacted with shock, anxiety and fury at the announcement of 9,000 job losses, and the manner this jobs slaughter was ...

For action against poverty and insecurity

September 7, 2018 // 0 Comments

by Richie Venton, SSP national workplace organiser • The British TUC meets in Manchester for its annual congress, 150 years after its founding meeting in the Mechanics Institute of the same city. ...

University bosses on the run: keep chasing them!

March 29, 2018 // 0 Comments

by Richie Venton, SSP national workplace organiser • Strikes work! Well organised collective action, with full involvement and mobilisation of union members, can put to flight even the most ...

by Richie Venton, SSP national workplace organiser • The breadth and depth of strike action by staff at ten Scottish universities, and 61 across the UK, is unprecedented. Members of the University ...