Month: September 2012
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Bulletin 110
The eyes of millions of workers will be on the forthcoming Labour Party Conference. As the purse strings get tighter families will be looking to see whether Labour can deliver the unemployed, the disabled, the students and all from a mighty bleak future. So far, it doesn’t look good. Osborne may have been booed at…
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Welsh Protests in Solidarity with sacked Crossrail workers
A terrified site manager ran out to meet the first protesters to arrive this morning, as construction workers and their supporters gathered in a quiet suburb of Cardiff to protest in solidarity with the 30 workers sacked by BAM on the Crossrail project. As the crowd increased, he gave up trying to convince us that…
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Sparks blockade at Crossrail
See video from REEL NEWS of Mondays Picket line & from day 3: The opening BESNA battle ended in defeat for the employers. Wage cuts of 35% and changes to terms and conditions in the form of the Building and Engineering Service National Agreement (Besna) were defeated after a determined rank and file campaign from…
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NUT & NASUWT action begins on Sep 26th
Teachers prepare for a new phase of action A report from Martin Powell Davis: NSSN Steering committee and NUT NEC. Across England and Wales, teachers are preparing for the start of ‘Phase One’ of the NUT’s national action – action we have to take to oppose the Government’s attacks on pay, jobs and working conditions.…
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PCS Joint Strike over transport & environment cuts
Twelve thousand PCS members from the transport and environment departments will hold a joint strike tomorrow over cuts and closures that threaten vital services to the public. Following two months of rolling strikes across the Department for Transport, the union’s 8,500 DfT members will be joined by 3,500 from the Department for Environment, Food and…
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No 109
An opinion poll by YouGov last week showed that most people think the Lib Dems have made no difference to the government. Of course! The Lib Dems are wedded to the free-market system destroying workers’ lives. We need to get rid of this big business government right away. Confirmation of how the NSSN caught the…
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Argos distribution workers to strike over Pensions!
Midlands Picket line this morning. (Pic Steve Score) Workers at five Argos distribution centres around the country (Magna Park, Bridgewater, Heywood, Castleford and Basildon) will start a four-day national strike this Wednesday (19th September). This action is over the closing of the company’s final salary pension scheme, which it is seeking to do without compensating the affected staff.
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Video of NSSN lobby of the TUC
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Fight to End the Blacklist
FIGHT TO END BLACKLIST Support Steve Acheson! Three years ago the government’s own Information Commissioner’s Office revealed a conspiracy by 40 of the UK’s biggest construction companies. This conspiracy was to deliberately deny more than 3000 construction workers their legal right to secure work. This human rights abuse continues now. I am one of those…
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Bulletin 108
Following what was described by one observer as the best debate she had ever witnessed at a TUC congress, union delegates voted overwhelmingly for ‘motion 5′, moved by the POA union (prison officers) in favour of a general strike against the government’s austerity. Although the wording of the motion qualified the general strike call, arguing…
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TUC passes general strike motion
Following what was described by one observer as the best debate she had ever witnessed at a TUC congress, union delegates voted overwhelmingly for ‘motion 5’, moved by the POA union (prison officers) in favour of a general strike against the government’s austerity. Although the wording of the motion qualified the general strike call, arguing…
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Leading trade unionists arrested on picket line
Defend trade union rights Steve Hedley, the newly elected assistant general secretary of the RMT was arrested on a picket line at Kings Cross station. He was later released without charge but this is clearly an attack on the democratic right to strike. Members of the Rail Maritime and Transport union employed by contractors ISS…
