The 2025 conference of the UK's Fire Brigades Union (FBU) takes place 20-23 May in Blackpool. A Ukraine solidarity resolution is on the agenda. Below is a briefing we have produced for FBU members. Available as a PDF here. We encourage FBU conference to vote in support of Staffordshire brigade’s resolution on solidarity with Ukraine … Continue reading Briefing for FBU members and conference delegates
Help defend PCS’s pro-Ukraine policy!
UPDATE: PCS conference 2025 ran short of time, and so did not discuss Ukraine. Therefore the union's existing strong policy in support of Ukraine and its workers' movement stands. Working with supporters in PCS, we ran an energetic campaign of publicity and argument; the other side ran no campaign at all; and it was evident … Continue reading Help defend PCS’s pro-Ukraine policy!
Breakthrough: conference of big education union NEU votes overwhelmingly for solidarity with Ukraine
Above: City of York NEU's Mike Kearney, returned from visiting educators and other trade unionists and socialists in Ukraine the day before the conference, speaking for motion 35 In a major gain for UK labour movement solidarity, the membership of half-million-strong teachers' and school workers' union NEU (the National Education Union) has shown conclusively it … Continue reading Breakthrough: conference of big education union NEU votes overwhelmingly for solidarity with Ukraine
Report from PCS delegation to Ukraine
Above, PCS delegation meets representatives of the Confederation of Free Trade Unions of Ukraine (KVPU) By Leonard Nazareth The mood in Kyiv, when I visited with a Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS), delegation on 11-14 February, was anxious over the election of Trump and the consequential end of the financial and military aid that … Continue reading Report from PCS delegation to Ukraine
Ukraine solidarity in UK trade unions – how you can get involved
An overview of Ukraine solidarity organisation in UK trade unions Ukraine Solidarity Campaign has affiliations from six national UK trade unions (UNISON public sector workers, ASLEF train drivers, PCS civil servants, UCU post-16 education workers, GMB private and public sector workers, and NUM mineworkers), in addition to branch, regional and other affiliations. The national unions … Continue reading Ukraine solidarity in UK trade unions – how you can get involved
How we are working to build solidarity with Ukraine in the NEU
Republished from Educators' Fightback blog. Thanks to the comrades. We will be encouraging Ukraine solidarity groups and networks in other unions to write similar updates. (Image above: delegates at National Education Union conference 2023 with representatives of the FPU-affiliated Trade Union of Education and Science Workers of Ukraine) As background to this blog post, we … Continue reading How we are working to build solidarity with Ukraine in the NEU
THE TRADE UNION MOVEMENT MUST STAND WITH UKRAINIAN WORKERS!
The new Labour Code is a threat to workers’ rights in Ukraine The Ukraine Solidarity Campaign has forged connections between workers’ movements in the UK and Ukraine, providing life-saving equipment to miners, firefighters, teachers, rescue squads and others since the start of Russia’s invasion. We have been outspoken on the need to protect and advance … Continue reading THE TRADE UNION MOVEMENT MUST STAND WITH UKRAINIAN WORKERS!
THE FAREWELL OF GERMAN UNION LEFTISTS FROM INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY
Chris Zeller In England, Wales and Scotland, there is notable solidarity from the unions with the Ukrainian resistance against the Russian occupation troops. John McDonnell MP, former Treasury Chancellor leading the Labour Party at the time of Jeremy Corbyn, is an active spokesman for the Ukraine Solidarity Campaign [1]. In France, all relevant unions have … Continue reading THE FAREWELL OF GERMAN UNION LEFTISTS FROM INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY
DEFEND UNION RIGHTS IN UKRAINE
SUPPORT THE UKRAINIAN RAILWAY WORKERS UNION The Ukrainian transport workers at the “Kyivpastrans" bus and trolleybus workplaces of Kyiv are facing increasing pressure to break their union. The management have engaged in violence, bullying and discriminatory measures against workers union members. The the Free Trade Union of Railway Workers of Ukraine ( VPZU) is appealing … Continue reading DEFEND UNION RIGHTS IN UKRAINE
англійської профспілки до українських робітників
англійської профспілки до українських робітників JOIN A TRADE UNION! APPEAL TO UKRAINIAN WORKERS Published here is an appeal directed to Ukrainian émigré workers to join trade unions and participate in our labour movement. It was published by Vpered a Ukrainian workers paper published by the emigre Ukrainian Revolutionary-Democratic Party, formed by socialist refugees in Europe … Continue reading англійської профспілки до українських робітників
