Month: March 2014
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VIDEO: NUT strike London march & rally
Reposted from Real News You Tube channel.
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NSSN 186 – Probation workers action can defeat privatisation
By Chas Berry, Kent Branch NAPO Chair (personal capacity) As probation workers in NAPO prepare for a second national strike against privatisation from 31st March to 1st April, pressure is piling up on Secretary of State Chris Grayling from across the justice sector. On 1st April, lawyers in the Justice Alliance will take protest action…
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NSSN 185: Defend education – Solidarity with teachers’ strike
The strike of National Union of Teachers (NUT) members on 26 March is most definitely on! Now every NUT Association and every school rep must go all out to get the biggest possible turnout for the national strike. We must reverse the damage that has been done to teachers’ pay, pensions and working conditions. In…
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SOAS cleaners strike again!
Unison members working for outsourced cleaning company ISS at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) have again been on strike today. The strikers, many of them migrant workers are demanding the same terms and conditions such as sick pay and other benefits enjoyed by in-house workers. They and their supporters are also calling…
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Silent vigil for Kevin Campbell: Another construction fatality
Kevin Campbell, 46 from Poplar, in east London was killed on 2nd March on a Docklands Light Railway project in Stratford. Kevin was struck by a piece of machinery that was attached to an excavator. The fatality came in the same month as a worker was killed on the £15bn Cross rail project, also a…
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POA Budget Day march against austerity
Prison officers from around the country gathered in Westminster this morning for a march and rally against austerity. The prison service has taken massive cuts since the austerity offensive against the public sector began in 2008. This has led to a worsening of conditions in prisons for prison officers and prisoners alike. Like much of the…
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Support Unite’s Homes & Communities Agency strike action
From Unite Housing Branch 1111 Over 68% of Unite members at the Homes and Communities Agency have voted for strike action over the divisive and unfair way that the Agency has chosen to allocate pay, and because the Agency has consistently failed to negotiate in a meaningful way on this key issue. See more at:…
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NSSN 184 – Join POA march against austerity on Budget Day
The POA prison officers union will be holding a march and rally on the 19th March 2014 to coincide with Budget Day in order to demonstrate at the budget cuts, pay freeze, pension age, assaults on POA members and privatisation. In recent years, budget cuts have seen the Prison Service impose an almost total recruitment…
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Support striking Ealing Hospital workers
GMB pickets were again on strike and out in force this morning at Ealing Hospital in their seven day strike against poverty pay. The 150 porters and ancillary workers are fighting to get off the minimum hourly wage rate of £6.31 that outsourced NHS employer Medirest is currently paying them. This is 44% below the…
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Tubeworker John Reid victimized over February strike (repost)
John Reid, President of the RMT’s London Transport regional council, has been suspended from his work pending investigation following a complaint against him made while he was carrying out his lawful duties on the picket line in the February strike to defend jobs and ticket offices. A rumour has been started by persons unknown that John…
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NSSN 183 – Bob Crow: A fighter for the working class
Bob Crow’s profoundly shocking death on Tuesday 11 March at the young age of 52 deprives RMT members of the most inspirational and effective leader in the trade union movement at a time when workers across the world face economic attacks and imperialist aggression to an extent not seen since the 1930s. Perhaps this partly…
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Carmarthenshire Labour council attacks union rights
From a Carmarthenshire Unison member, writing in a personal capacity. On the 1st April 2014 Carmarthenshire Labour led Council (yes a Labour council!) will remove the trade union secondments for Unison, GMB and Unite. Before this anti –trade union attack, that will be applauded by the Con-Dems and the Taxpayers Alliance, Carmarthenshire County Council was…
