The Active Voice is the regular podcast update of news and analysis from UnionNews for trade unionists, from trade unionists.
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Reporting from picket lines in Bristol and London, we hear from the frontline of the second, national coordinated day for strike action over public sector pensions
Writer Owen Jones on May Day – and whether 2012 Olympics have provided promised jobs for local youth in London
On the Podcast: Pensions, Post Office privatision, youth unemployment and booting the BNP out of the Fire Service
The Remploy Day of Action against closures; a BBC strike on Jubilee day; and employment tribunal charges which could cost workers their right to justice and fairness
We speak to workers made redundant at Visteon on the 3-year campaign to recoup their pensions – and how pictures & cartoons can make life safer for foreign-language building workers.
The unjust jailing of union activists is a story as old as the movement itself. Surviving Shrewsbury pickets lodge a formal appeal as the programme is launched for Tolpuddle Martyrs Festival 2012.
Reporting from the NUT, UCU and Unite industrial action over pensions in London on #M28 and on a teachers strike in Nottingham against 5-terms-a-year plans
STUC protest against youth unemployment hears Coalition is “radicalising a generation, because it’s our generation whose life chances they are destroying”.
First shots are fired in a ‘spring offensive” against Coalition pension cuts – and an update from the MMP Bootle lockout, four weeks on
Reporting from strikes at Swindon Great Western hospital, the MMP lockout in Bootle and evidence that state security and police provided evidence to notorious anti-union blacklisting company
