Tag: doncaster

  • Doncaster Drivers go to war with Tesco!

    Doncaster Drivers go to war with Tesco!

    ’ve never been on a picket line like it!  An armoured personel carrier and a farmer’s muckspeader blocked the gates to Doncaster Tesco’s depot. Around 150 drivers, members of Unite the union, and their families joined the blockade for photographs as police stopped the traffic and scab deliveries! All were in high spirits as this ‘stunt’…

  • Bulletin 115 – More dole queues or time to for a 24hr general STRIKE?

    Bulletin 115 – More dole queues or time to for a 24hr general STRIKE?

    “The good news is going to keep coming,” said David Cameron last week in the Commons about the economy. Well, for workers there has been nothing but an avalanche of despair as factories are threatened with closure and companies go into administration. We carry below a report of the campaign at Ford’s Transit plant in…

  • Tescos – Every sacking helps!

    Tescos – Every sacking helps!

    Unite members waved union placards on the picket line saying ‘Tesco – every sacking helps’ as 186 Tesco drivers in Doncaster started a three day strike on Wednesday 31st October against job losses and wage cuts. Tesco, not content with £3.8 billion profit last year, transferred their Doncaster transport workforce in August to Eddie Stobart…