Sheffield Needs News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

ANDY BAIN explains how Britain’s communists have helped the movement prepare for the struggle ahead

TRADE union themes are at the centre of two events during the 2021 Sheffield Festival of Debate: Trade Unions, Workers’ Rights and the Media tomorrow, May 5, and Wapping: The Workers’ Story on May 12. Both of them are timely. We saw during March huge publicity about the attempt to organise a union at the Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama. Here in Britain, the trade union Unite has just launched a national campaign against the pernicious “fire-and-rehire” tactic used by employers where workers are sacked and rehired on inferior pay and conditions. Recently 400 British Gas eng...

Industrial reporter UNION activists have insisted that grassroots campaigns are the key to future industrial victories following the successful fight for a $15 minimum wage in the US.    The Fight for $15: Lessons for Yorkshire online meeting on Tuesday night, organised by the Yorkshire & the Humber branch of the TUC, honoured the inspirational US-based Fight for $15 movement, which has created a model for worker-led organising.  The movement began in 2012 when 200 fast food workers in new York walked out to demand a $15 an hour minimum wage and union rights. It soon spread across ...