Royal Mail subsidiary, eCourier, are classifying most of their couriers as “Independent Contractors” – so that they can unlawfully deny them the basic employment rights of a living wage, sick pay, holidays, pension and union recognition. eCourier have already lost a tribunal brought by the IWGB union where they admitted that one of their bike couriers was a worker – but now the couriers have been forced to take strike action to get them to stop operating iunlawfully. Couriers are having to work up to 80 hours a week for a decent wage in this appalling example of the gig economy – you can help them win by donating to the strike fund at .
Civil Servants
PCS Strike on Budget Day
Film Length: 13:26 The views of workers on picket lines in London as 250,000 civil servants take national strike action on Budget Day.
Education
6th form strike ballot: vote yes to decent pay!
Running time: 10 min 11 sec Watch 2 min version on Twitter 6th form college staff have just voted in an indicative ballot for strike action in huge numbers. The 85% yes vote on a […]
International
Spain Coca Cola dispute: Boycott Coca-Cola!
Film length: 6:15 Coca-Cola workers in Spain have been fighting to save their jobs for 17 months, when Coca Cola attempted to shut down all four factories there. Milltant rank and file action alongside a […]