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Students launch ‘boycott First’ campaign

First bus drivers at the Rusholme Depot are paid up to £5000 a year less than colleagues working at the First’s Queen’s Road base just five miles away

Union announces formal Trade Dispute and possible strike action

The Manchester branch of the University and College Union has announced it will ballot its members for industrial action over the outsourcing of IT jobs

NHS workers strike over pay

NHS hospital staff striked last Monday and are threatening further action over outrage that a proposed one per cent increase in pay has been rejected by Government, despite plans for a 10 per cent increase for MPs

University staff to stage second strike

Protests planned over below inflation pay increases

University staff to strike again

Second day of action set for December

“Oh, you can’t scare me, I’m sticking to the union”

Eve Fensome writes about the ways students might benefit by joining a union.