Tag: Unite
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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…
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Solidarity with Ford workers – Defend every job
News of Ford’s plans to close the Transit plant in Southampton has hit workers and the city like a bombshell. 500 Ford workers’ and 450 contractors’ jobs are under threat. But the shockwaves of closure will rumble far further. 81 suppliers provide components and materials to Southampton. After 700 jobs were cut in 2008, these…
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We Marched together on the 20th, now to strike together!
“Blimey!” was the reaction of one railway worker as he heard about Lennie McCluskey’s call for a general strike in Hyde Park on the massive TUC demo last Saturday. We expected Mark Serwotka and Bob Crow to do that, and they did. The RMT, PCS together with POA had committed to campaigning for a general…
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113 – March together this Saturday against austerity
March together this Saturday against the ConDem austerity offensive…then strike together! We have spent the last few months helping to build for Saturday’s TUC demonstrations in London, Glasgow and Belfast. We also lobbied the TUC conference last month for the unions to follow up the October 20 mobilisations with a 24 hour general strike to…
