The function of a trade union is to eliminate competition among workers on the labour market. But if the trade union, as an organizati...

“Solidarity for ever,   For the Union makes us strong.” The union movement has proven itself to be a powerful instrument of a defensiv...

The possibility of a general strike keep cropping up within the trade union movement. There have been many different types of general s...

More than 1,000 furious migrant workers besieged a factory in Shanghai and held 18 Japanese and Chinese managers against their will for mor...

The 1911 Clydebank Singers strike is considered the first battle between labour and international capital in Scotland if not in the UK. It ...

Members the Educational Institute of Scotland (EIS), Scotland's largest teachers union, yesterday voted in favour of fighting austerity...

Tens of thousands of Scottish workers will be on strike today protesting at government pension reforms. Departments affected include Jobcen...

“The miners occupy the front trenches of the position singled out for attack and if their wages are reduced it will be the beginning of...

In the eyes of many, Glasgow during the First World War and its aftermath gained the reputation of being a centre of socialist ideas, a hot...

India factory workers in revolt and kill company president. Workers at the Regency Ceramics factory in India raided the home of their boss,...

Education, hospitals, transport and the like are primarily a service for the smooth running of capitalism and were brought in as such. It is...

In his first television interview of the year, Cameron, facing a possible spring of discontent as unions consider co-ordinating strikes agai...

Up to 150,000 council staff in Scotland staged the second 24-hour strike over pay in two months. Schools, ferry services and rubbish collec...

Scotland's rank and file police are to call for the right to strike, currently denied them by law. Members of the Scottish Police Feder...

Staff at Shelter Scotland went on strike yesterday for the first time in the homeless charity's history in protest over pay and conditio...

Tesco drivers' strike continues Up to 150 Tesco lorry drivers have begun a strike after refusing to sign up to new working terms and co...