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News from the Frontline
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CWU: Post Office workers keep the fight alive with more strikes - News from the Frontline
Counterfire’s weekly digest with the latest on strikes and workplace struggles
Royal Mail: best and final offer met with no confidence in CEO - News from the Frontline
Counterfire’s weekly digest with the latest on strikes and workplace struggles
Fair pay or fire strike: FBU move to industrial action ballot - News from the Frontline
Counterfire’s weekly digest with the latest on strikes and workplace struggles
Peel Ports' profits docked by Liverpool strikers' victory - News from the Frontline
Counterfire’s weekly digest with the latest on strikes and workplace struggles
RMT Tube strike reports round up
A compilation of reports from the various RMT Tube strike picket lines
Liverpool dockers: “All for one and one for all” - News from the Frontline
Counterfire’s weekly digest with the latest on strikes and workplace struggles
Müller: fighting back is mother’s milk for these workers - News from the Frontline
Counterfire’s weekly digest with the latest on strikes and workplace struggles
CWU’s battle with Royal Mail: the rubber hits the road - News from the Frontline
Counterfire’s weekly digest with the latest on strikes and workplace struggles
School's out: Now the teachers are set to strike - News from the Frontline
Counterfire’s weekly digest with the latest on strikes and workplace struggles
Posties deliver solid picket lines on sixth day of national strike
Counterfire members report from CWU Royal Mail picket lines around the country on the sixth day of the national strike
Tories get lawyered: Victory for the barristers - News from the Frontline
Counterfire’s weekly digest with the latest on strikes and workplace struggles
Posties pile on the pressure: CWU’s new strike days - News from the Frontline
Counterfire’s weekly digest with the latest on strikes and workplace struggles
Arriva London North: All-out strike! - News from the Frontline
Counterfire’s weekly digest with the latest on strikes and workplace struggles
Felixstowe and Liverpool: the struggle resumes with a vengeance - News from the Frontline
Counterfire’s weekly digest with the latest on strikes and workplace struggles
Keeping the heat up: firefighters latest to consider national strike action - News from the Frontline
Counterfire’s weekly digest with the latest on strikes and workplace struggles
TUC unity motions: pressure from below reaches the top table - News from the Frontline
Counterfire’s weekly digest with the latest on strikes and workplace struggles
No letters, no papers: posties and journos start their strikes - News from the Frontlines
Counterfire’s weekly digest with the latest on strikes and workplace struggles
CWU: Royal Mail and BT to see biggest strike day in years - News from the Frontline
Counterfire’s weekly digest with the latest on strikes and workplace struggles
No post on strike days: national Royal Mail strike to begin in 2 weeks - News from the Frontline
Counterfire’s weekly digest with the latest on strikes and workplace struggles
Wildcat walkouts: workers’ anger spreads beyond the unions - News from the Frontline
Counterfire’s weekly digest with the latest on strikes and workplace struggles
The strike wave continues: dockers ready to shut down ports - News from the Frontline
Counterfire’s weekly digest with the latest on strikes and workplace struggles
It’s not just the RMT: CWU posties smash ballot threshold - News from the Frontline
Counterfire’s weekly digest with the latest on strikes and workplace struggles
Heathrow: no emergency landing for the bosses - News from the Frontline
Counterfire’s weekly digest with the latest on strikes and workplace struggles
St Georges Hospital workers aren’t backing down - News from the Frontline
Counterfire’s weekly digest with the latest on strikes and workplace struggles
Them against us: which side are you on?
Counterfire’s weekly digest with the latest on strikes and workplace struggles
Catching fire: posties next in line for national strike action
Counterfire’s weekly digest with the latest on strikes and workplace struggles
Is there something in the air? - News from the Frontline
Counterfire’s weekly digest with the latest on strikes and workplace struggles
‘The biggest rail strike in modern history’: RMT raises the flag - News from the Frontline
Counterfire’s weekly digest with the latest on strikes and workplace struggles
RMT are striking for all of us: let’s get behind them - News from the Frontline
Counterfire’s weekly digest with the latest on strikes and workplace struggles
Gatwick: militant workers know how to land a good deal - News from the Frontline
Counterfire’s weekly digest with the latest on strikes and workplace struggles
Asda: fuming retail workers prepare to strike - News from the Frontline
Counterfire’s weekly digest with the latest on strikes and workplace struggles
CWU anger persists: Post Office workers strike across the country - News from the Frontline
Counterfire’s weekly digest with the latest on strikes and workplace struggles
Inflation at 9.9%: strike for better pay! - News from the Frontline
Counterfire’s weekly digest with the latest on strikes and workplace struggles
RMT ballot: will it capture workers’ anger? - News from the Frontline
Counterfire’s weekly digest with the latest on strikes and workplace struggles
The very greedy Caterpillar - News from the Frontline
Counterfire’s weekly digest with the latest on strikes and workplace struggles
Manx teachers have had enough - News from the Frontline
Counterfire’s weekly digest with the latest on strikes and workplace struggles
In a cost of living crisis, Croydon Hospital workers show how to win - News from the Frontline
Counterfire’s weekly digest with the latest on strikes and workplace struggles
Unite in Northern Ireland: all eleven councils on strike - News from the Frontline
Counterfire’s weekly digest with the latest on strikes and workplace struggles
P&O Ferries: this is war - News from the Frontline
Counterfire’s weekly digest with the latest on strikes and workplace struggles
No union-busting on our watch: Liverpool factory workers hit back - News from the Frontline
Counterfire’s weekly digest with the latest on strikes and workplace struggles
Barts victory: another bloody nose for the outsourcers - News from the Frontline
Counterfire’s weekly digest with the latest on strikes and workplace struggles
How to beat inflation: Hastings bin workers win 'whopping' 19.5% pay rise - News from the Frontline
Counterfire’s weekly digest with the latest on strikes and workplace struggles
GOSH guards protest court ruling - News from the Frontline
Counterfire’s weekly digest with the latest on strikes and workplace struggles
Our anger is everywhere: posh schools feel the heat - News from the Frontline
Counterfire’s weekly digest with the latest on strikes and workplace struggles
London's hospital workers are leading the way - News from the Frontline
Counterfire’s weekly digest with the latest on strikes and workplace struggles
This is not a drill: fire and rehire resisted in schools - News from the Frontline
Counterfire’s weekly digest with the latest on strikes and workplace struggles
Cost of living crisis: We need a pay revolt! - News from the Frontline
Counterfire’s weekly digest with the latest on strikes and workplace struggles
Stagecoach's wheels fall off: Victory for South Yorkshire bus drivers - News from the Frontline
Counterfire’s weekly digest with the latest on strikes and workplace struggles
Chep strike: Manchester unites for a solidarity rally - News from the Frontline
Counterfire’s weekly digest with the latest on strikes and workplace struggles
Low pay at Luton Airport: strike action to take off on NYE - News from the Frontline
Counterfire’s weekly digest with the latest on strikes and workplace struggles
It’s all stacking up for the bosses: Chep pallet strikers escalate action - News from the Frontline
Counterfire’s weekly digest with the latest on strikes and workplace struggles
The bosses know we’re serious: Unite strike suspended as Tesco floats new deal - News from the Frontline
Counterfire’s weekly digest with the latest on strikes and workplace struggles
Clarks victory: workers bring bosses to heel - News from the Frontline
Counterfire’s weekly digest with the latest on strikes and workplace struggles
University workers prepare for battle - News from the Frontline
Counterfire’s weekly digest with the latest on strikes and workplace struggles
Are the wheels coming off the bus operators’ race to the bottom? - News from the Frontline
The 50th edition of Counterfire’s weekly digest with the latest on strikes and workplace struggles
Goldsmiths: London lecturers steal the march on HE anger - News from the Frontline
Counterfire’s weekly digest with the latest on strikes and workplace struggles
Glasgow: GMB strike braziers are on fire! - News from the Frontline
Counterfire’s weekly digest with the latest on strikes and workplace struggles
Trucked off: lorry drivers gear up for day of action - News from the Frontline
Counterfire’s weekly digest with the latest on strikes and workplace struggles.
Brighton bins win: GMB victory helps set the stage - News from the Frontline
Counterfire’s weekly digest with the latest on strikes and workplace struggles
Stagecoach in Scotland: next stop, strike action - News from the Frontline
Counterfire’s weekly digest with the latest on strikes and workplace struggles.
All-out strike is a go: scaffolders at Scunthorpe’s British Steel - News from the Frontline
Counterfire's weekly digest with the latest on strikes and workplace struggles
Liverpool University: a benchmark victory for HE and beyond - News from the Frontline
Counterfire's weekly digest with the latest on strikes and workplace struggles
Cracks on the tracks: Met drivers to strike for fair pay - News from the Frontline
Counterfire's weekly digest with the latest on strikes and workplace struggles
Catalyst! Unite’s win for Greater Manchester lorry drivers - News from the Frontline
Counterfire's weekly digest with the latest on strikes and workplace struggles
Sandwell refuse workers kick up a stink - News from the Frontline
Counterfire's weekly digest with the latest on strikes and workplace struggles
Driver shortage: let’s start turning the table on the bosses - News from the Frontline
Counterfire's weekly digest with the latest on strikes and workplace struggles
The fight back is everywhere: Labour Party workers join the resistance - News from the Frontline
Counterfire's weekly digest with the latest on strikes and workplace struggles
When the clapping stops: NHS workers prepare for this autumn’s key pay battle
Counterfire's weekly digest with the latest on strikes and workplace struggles
The HE fightback: Liverpool’s UCU militants have lessons for us all - News from the Frontline
Counterfire's weekly digest with the latest on strikes and workplace struggles
Strikers shut down six Scottish airports - News from the Frontline
Counterfire's weekly digest with the latest on strikes and workplace struggles
15% is the demand: NHS pay is everyone’s fight - News from the Frontline
Counterfire's weekly digest with the latest on strikes and workplace struggles
Eruption of anger over pay leads to nationwide college strikes - News from the Frontline
Counterfire's weekly digest with the latest on strikes and workplace struggles
Union membership pays: Great Bear drivers secure pay increase - News from the Frontline
Counterfire's weekly digest with the latest on strikes and workplace struggles
Ousting the outsourcers: 97.3% of PCS members at BEIS vote to strike - News from the Frontline
Counterfire's weekly digest with the latest on strikes and workplace struggles
Choppy waters for the bosses: more strike days announced for the Woolwich ferry - News from the Frontline
Counterfire's weekly digest with the latest on strikes and workplace struggles
Caledonian Sleeper: strikers and passengers wide awake to Serco lies - News from the Frontline
Counterfire's weekly digest with the latest on strikes and workplace struggles
Emergency! Exhausted ambulance workers ready to strike - News from the Frontline
Counterfire's weekly digest with the latest on strikes and workplace struggles
Into battle: RMT strikers square up to Serco pay freeze - News from the Frontline
Counterfire's weekly digest with the latest on strikes and workplace struggles
Encirc bottles it: victory for workers after strike threat - News from the Frontline
Counterfire's weekly digest with the latest on strikes and workplace struggles
Persistence pays: victory for Thurrock refuse workers - News from the Frontline
Counterfire's weekly digest with the latest on strikes and workplace struggles
Hovis workers need more bread: all-out strike action is go - News from the Frontline
Counterfire's weekly digest with the latest on strikes and workplace struggles
DVLA strike shifts up a gear - News from the Frontline
Counterfire's weekly digest with the latest on strikes and workplace struggles
NEU to teach Pimlico Academy a lesson - News from the Frontline
Counterfire's weekly digest with the latest on strikes and workplace struggles
Dealing with rubbish: Thurrock refuse workers fight back - News from the Frontline
Counterfire's weekly digest with the latest on strikes and workplace struggles
Lessons need to be learned from the British Gas defeat - News from the Frontline
Counterfire's weekly digest with the latest on strikes and workplace struggles
The RCN is getting ready to fight – are you? - News from the Frontline
Counterfire's weekly digest with the latest on strikes and workplace struggles
Forty-third strike day as British Gas endgame looms - News from the Frontline
Counterfire's weekly digest with the latest on strikes and workplace struggles
Big win for Asda workers in equal pay fight - News from the Frontline
Counterfire's weekly digest with the latest on strikes and workplace struggles
Uber caves in over workers’ rights - News from the Frontline
Counterfire's weekly digest rounding up the stories of working people getting organised and fighting back
Licensed to ill: DVLA workers battle bosses and Covid at work – News from the Frontline
Counterfire's weekly digest rounding up the stories of working people getting organised and fighting back
All behind the health workers – News from the Frontline
Counterfire's weekly digest rounding up the stories of working people getting organised and fighting back
Solidarity with British Gas strikers: their fight is our fight - News from the Frontline
Counterfire's weekly digest rounding up the stories of working people getting organised and fighting back
British Gas strikes back on – News from the Frontline
Counterfire's weekly digest rounding up the stories of working people getting organised and fighting back
British Gas strikers refuse to back down – News from the Frontline
Counterfire's fortnightly digest rounding up the stories of working people getting organised and fighting back
Stop the British Gas fire! - News from the Frontline
Counterfire's fortnightly digest rounding up the stories of working people getting organised and fighting back
Workers fire back - News from the Frontline
Counterfire's fortnightly digest rounding up the stories of working people getting organised and fighting back
Workers fighting back: the new mood continues unabated - News from the Frontline
Counterfire's fortnightly digest rounding up the stories of working people getting organised and fighting back
Workers are not going to pay for the crisis - News from the Frontline
Counterfire's fortnightly digest rounding up the stories of working people getting organised and fighting back
Winter of discontent ahead - News from the Frontline
Counterfire's fortnightly digest rounding up the stories of working people getting organised and fighting back
Crunch time for workers - News from the Frontline
Counterfire's fortnightly digest rounding up the stories of working people getting organised and fighting back
Big ballots to strike - News from the Frontline
Counterfire's fortnightly digest rounding up the stories of working people getting organised and fighting back
Heathrow, Rolls Royce, IKEA and more - news from the frontline
Counterfire's fortnightly digest rounding up the stories of working people getting organised and fighting back
Workers are fighting back - news from the frontline
The first of a fortnightly digest rounding up the stories of working people getting organised and fighting back