Category: Appeals
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Work in Fast Food? Join the BFAWU – £10Now!
Dear Comrades Fast food Workers in the united states are registering victory after victory. The fight for $15 and a union is winning increases in minimum wage in cities across the states. Some of the most oppressed working class people in America are driving the political agenda of the Presidential election and forcing the…
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Come to the 9th annual NSSN conference Saturday July 4
STOP THE TORY UNION-BUSTERS! FIGHT TOGETHER AGAINST THE CUTS! Come to the 9th annual NSSN conference Saturday July 4 11am – 4.30pm. Conway Hall, 25 Red Lion Sq, London, WC1R 4RL. Confirmed speakers include: Mark Serwotka PCS General Secretary, Ronnie Draper BFAWU General Secretary, Matt Wrack FBU General Secretary, Steve Gillan POA General Secretary, Peter Pinkney…
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Sign petition! Release Janahan from detention now! End deportations to Sri Lanka
Tamil Solidarity demands the immediate release of Janahan Sivanathan from Morton Hall Immigration Removal Centre (IRC) where he is currently being held. Janahan is an active member of Tamil Solidarity and detention and the threat of being returned to Sri Lanka pose a serious risk to his life. Janahan has been severely affected by the…
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Defend Robert O’Donnell, Glasgow UNISON Rep at SECC
I write to highlight an attack on UNISON branch representative, Robert O’Donnell, who has been sacked by the Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre. UNISON is supporting Robert in his appeal against dismissal. UNISON believe that Robert, a gardener and UNISON representative, was unfairly sacked by the SECC Management on 25 May. He was dismissed following…
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Gateshead Kone workers step up action
Kone workers on the Team Valley Trading Estate, Gateshead have escalated their action from a series of one day strikes to a two week all-out stoppage. The strikers all feel this has been necessary because of the company’s lack of commitment to finding a settlement. Unite have urged the bosses of the Finnish owned company…
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Sign petition & support growing resistance of metalworkers in Turkey
Dear Friend, I am writing to ask you to sign the petition below and support the growing resistance of the metal workers in Turkey. The resistance which started with Renault workers and spread across TOFAS, Coşkunöz, Mako and Valeo workers has now encouraged Ototrim factory workers and Ford Otosan workers in Bursa and…
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Brazilian water worker sacked: urgent solidarity needed
The NSSN has just received this request for urgent solidarity: BRAZIL – Urgent solidarity protests needed. Faced with lack of water for people, Sabesp cuts costs, sacks more than 500 workers and victimises trade union activists. NO TO REDUNDANCIES AND VICTIMISATION AT SABESP! For the immediate re-employment of Marzeni Pereira and…
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Affiliate to Tamil Solidarity
Unique among Tamil campaigns and organisations, Tamil Solidarity puts the working class and its organisations at the centre of the struggle for Tamil rights. We stand for the right of the Tamil-speaking people in Sri Lanka to self-determination, alongside the struggle for the rights of workers and the oppressed throughout the island, regardless of their…
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Urgent appeal: international solidarity Turkish metalworkers
Dear Friend, Metal workers in Turkey went on strike on Thursday, 29th January 2015 demanding better wages and working conditions once negotiations between employer and the union failed. The Turkish government argued that the metal workers’ strike “is capable of disrupting national security and decided on Friday, 30th January to postpone the strike for…
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Support locked-out Essex firefighters & hardship fund
Essex Firefighters took strike action from 9am on Wednesday 14 Jan. The three days of planned partial actions have been escalated as the employers effectively chose to temporarily lock firefighters out rather than accept three days of more limited strikes. The current dispute is over changes to conditions for control room staff – with…
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Support the Gateshead Barbour 4-week strike
Workers from Barbour’s Gateshead warehouse are on four weeks of strike action against the imposition of changes to their terms and conditions. On Friday 9 January around 100 strikers and supporters from the FBU, Unison, BFAWU bakers union and others participated in a march to Barbour’s South Tyneside HQ. One of the strikers commented that…
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Renationalise mail distribution – Save City Link jobs!
Almost 3,000 City Link workers are facing the New Year dole queue as the company is going into administration. The RMT union represents these workers and expects them to receive redundancy notices on New Year’s Eve! But because the firm is going bankrupt, workers will only receive statutory payments of a maximum of nearly £14,000…
