07-04-2018 - Chicago, USA Labor Notes conference, Members of the UCW at the University of Tennessee joined with three thousand union activists attending the biannual meeting. Labor Notes is an organization of rank... © Jim West

19-05-2016 - Defying a ban on protest against proposed labor reforms, Nantes, France, Protesters caught in tear gas © Jean Claude Moschetti

19-05-2016 - Defying a ban on protest against proposed labor reforms, Nantes, France, Protesters caught in tear gas © Jean Claude Moschetti

31-03-2016 - Confrontation with Police, Tear gas, protests against proposed labor reforms, France © Jean Claude Moschetti

31-03-2016 - Confrontation with Police, Tear gas, protests against proposed labor reforms, France © Jean Claude Moschetti

30-01-2013 - Athens, Greece-protestor lying on the ground by Riot Police having been knocked out during clashes between riot police and protesters who tried to stop the arrest of members of PAME after the occupati... © Socrates Baltagiannis

26-03-2011 - Riot police amongst yellow smoke from flares during a protest against cuts. London. © Justin Tallis

26-03-2011 - A masked protester charges with a liberal party Altogether for Democracy placard as Fortnum and Mason as it is targeted by demonstrators.. Protest against cuts. Demonstrators and police clash in the s... © Justin Tallis

26-03-2011 - Protest against cuts. Smashing the Ritz Hotel windows. London. © Justin Tallis

26-03-2011 - Protest against cuts. Smashing the windows of Lloyds Bank. London. © Justin Tallis

26-03-2011 - Protest against cuts. Smashing the showroom windows of a Porsche car dealership. London. © Justin Tallis

20-10-2010 - CRS riot police confront workers and students on the streets of Lyon. Demonstration against pension reform © Laurent CERINO

16-05-2009 - UCW and CYWU banners. Thousands of trades union members protesting in Birmingham for the government to invest in manufacturing industry and jobs. © John Harris

14-07-2005 - Workers from the Prospect trade union leave their offices to join in a 2 minute silence one week on for the victims of the terrorist attacks which resulted in the deaths of more than 50 people and inj... © Stefano Cagnoni

21-04-2005 - Artwork depicting unrest and police shootings in the Apartheid era in the offices of COSATU ) in Johannesburg, South Africa. © Gerry McCann

30-06-1994 - Alan Johnson, Gen Sec of the UCW, responds to proposals to privatise the Post Office, save our post office campaign. © Philip Wolmuth

10-09-1990 - Riot police attack a single transport worker during demonstrations against the Muslim controlled council in Gorazde, Eastern Bosnia. © Martin Mayer

10-09-1990 - Riot police attack a single transport worker during demonstrations against the Muslim controlled council in Gorazde, Eastern Bosnia © Martin Mayer

28-02-1985 - Police Range Rover driving at pickets. Miners Strike 1985 Mass picket, Cortonwood pit village, Brampton, Yorkshire © John Sturrock

28-02-1985 - Miners Strike 1985 Mass picket confronting police on the streets in a confrontation that went on all night. Cortonwood pit village, Brampton, Yorkshire © John Harris

28-02-1985 - Miners Strike. Police Range Rover driving at pickets. Mass picket confront police on the streets in a confrontation that went on all night. Cortonwood pit village, Brampton, Yorkshire © John Harris

28-02-1985 - Miners Strike. Police Range Rovers driving at pickets. Mass picket confront police on the streets in a confrontation that went on all night. Cortonwood pit village, Brampton, Yorkshire © John Harris

28-02-1985 - Miners Strike, Police Range Rovers driving at pickets. Mass picket confront police on the streets in a confrontation that went on all night. Cortonwood pit village, Brampton, Yorkshire © John Harris

04-02-1985 - Scabs passing picket line, Silverwood Colliery 1985. Working miners crossing the road at the end of their shift infront of striking miners. Miners strike South Yorkshire © John Harris

29-01-1985 - Riot confronting pickets Cortonwood miners strike 1985. Mass picket of striking miners facing Riot police with long shields and armoured Land Rovers, Cortonwood Colliery, Yorkshire © John Harris

15-11-1984 - Pickets confronting riot police at night Frickley 1984 Miners Strike as police try to break the strike, South Elmsall pit village, Yorkshire. © John Sturrock

15-11-1984 - Pickets confronting riot police at night Frickley 1984 Miners Strike as police try to break the strike, South Elmsall pit village, Yorkshire. © John Harris

15-11-1984 - Pickets confronting riot police at night Frickley 1984 Miners Strike as police try to break the strike, South Elmsall pit village, Yorkshire. © John Harris

15-11-1984 - Pickets confronting riot police at night Frickley 1984 Miners Strike as police try to break the strike, South Elmsall pit village, Yorkshire. © John Harris

10-09-1984 - Police bombarded with stones, miners strike 1984. Mass picket confronting Police in the early hours of the morning © John Sturrock

18-06-1984 - The Miners Strike, a mass picket at Orgreave Coke Works near Sheffield, Steelworkers walked out while a convoy of coke lorries leaves. © John Sturrock

18-06-1984 - Battle of Orgreave 1984. Senior police officer attacking a miner guarding his car. The attempt to prosecute the miner for riot collapsed. Orgreave coke works Miners strike Sheffield South Yorkshire © John Harris

18-06-1984 - Battle of Orgreave 1984. Injured older miner is carried away by ambulance staff after he was attacked and injured by police on the picket line during violent clashes between miners and riot police off... © John Harris

18-06-1984 - Press photographer helping a picketing miner injured by mounted police. Orgreave coke works Miner's strike Sheffield South Yorkshire. Photographer Martin Shakeshaft © John Harris

18-06-1984 - Battle of Orgreave 1984. Mounted Police attacking mass picket of striking miners. Orgreave coke works Miner's strike, Sheffield South Yorkshire © John Harris

18-06-1984 - Battle of Orgreave 1984. Striking miners picketing at Orgreave erect makeshift barriers - sharpend stakes embedded in the road to try and stop police officers mounted on horesback. Miners and police o... © John Harris

18-06-1984 - Battle of Orgreave 1984. Striking miners picketing at Orgreave erect makeshift barriers - sharpend stakes embedded in the road to try and stop police officers mounted on horesback. Miners and police o... © John Harris

18-06-1984 - Battle of Orgreave 1984. Senior police officer attacking a picket guarding his car. The attempt to prosecute the miner for riot collapsed. Orgreave coking plant Miners strike Sheffield South Yorkshire © John Harris

29-05-1984 - Battle of Orgreave. Police resting on their riot shields behind an overturned burning portacabin after charging into a mass picket of striking miners. Orgreave coke works Miner's strike South Yorkshir... © John Harris

29-05-1984 - Battle of Orgreave, 1984, pickets carrying a telegraph pole to try to block the road to impead police charges by mounted and short shield riot police. Mass picket, Orgreave coke works, Yorkshire © John Harris

29-05-1984 - Battle of Orgreave 1984. Mounted police attacking pickets, mass picket of BSC Orgreave coking plant © John Sturrock

28-05-1984 - Battle of Orgreave. Lines of police officers and riot police preventing striking miners from approaching the Orgreave coking plant during the miners strike. © John Harris

28-05-1984 - Battle of Orgreave. Lines of police officers and riot police preventing striking miners from approaching the Orgreave coking plant to picket, miners strike. © John Harris

28-05-1984 - Battle of Orgreave. Police arresting striking miners injured during a mass picket of the Orgreave coking plant, miners strike. © John Harris

28-05-1984 - Battle of Orgreave. Miners fleeing from mounted police, riot officers on horseback, mass picket of the Orgreave coking plant, miners strike. © John Harris

27-10-1983 - UCW workers lobby against the privatisation of British Telecom, London 1983 © NLA