Month: November 2012
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N14 workers in Europe take action against austerity – TUC name the day for a general strike in Britain!
N14 workers in Europe take action against austerity – TUC name the day for a general strike in Britain! Many thanks for this report from Alex Gordon President of the RMT:On 14 November workers are taking coordinated, general strike action in Spain, Portugal, Greece and Italy for the first time as part of a European…
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Belgium March over closure of Fords
On Sunday 11 November, more than 15,000 people attended a demonstration organised by the Belgian trade unions for jobs and against the closure of the Ford car factory in Genk. The plant closure would mean the slashing of 4,000 jobs (without even counting the subcontractors). The announcement of the closure comes as November was a…
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Strike against bullying NUT/NASUWT
UPDATED: Picture from picket line today. One parents comments: ”My daughter is home for three days due to the Stratford Academy strike in east London. It is not ‘lost education’; she is getting some of the best education possible. She is watching her teachers courageously standing up to a bullying, autocratic senoir management and fighting for…
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Join Bromley Unite lobby council 12th Nov!
URGENT SUPPORT NEEDED Colleagues, Our Brothers and Sisters inBromley are facing unprecedented attacks on their National Terms and Conditions, pay and bargaining. UNITE are the only Union making the stand in Bromley to oppose these unacceptable moves to break away from National T&C’s and Pay talks. . We need All Branches to mobilise as many people…
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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’…
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Bakers Union agrees to affiliate to the NSSN
”We are delighted to report that the Bakers Union BFAWU has agreed at its national executive to affiliate to the NSSN. We look forward to working even closer with this fighting union and its members. This decision means that 7 national unions now officially support or are affiliated to the NSSN – RMT, PCS, CWU,…
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Argentine ship seized in Ghana by US Vulture Fund
A dramatic stand-off is taking place between a US vulture fund and the independent nation of Argentina over its 11-year old defaulted bonds – in the port of Tema in Ghana. The month long seizure of the ARA Libertad, an Argentine naval vessel, has no end in sight as Argentina refuses to pay a $20M…
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116 – Selling off everything we own?
Over the course of the last few years the public sector has faced a sustained attack. Making public sector workers work longer and pay more for less pension. Imposing a real terms pay cut by freezing pay for two years followed by a 1% pay cap. Cutting hundreds of thousands of public sector jobs. Increasing…
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TCL Miners protest over Pensions in Namibia
On Wednesday (7 Nov), Former workers for TCL in Namibia started their demonstrations outside the court in the capital Windhoek demanding the restoration of their missing pension funds. Click for march pictures Initial reports indicate continued obstruction by the authorities. The workers have followed all correct procedures, but the police are trying to prevent them…
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Visteon pensioners bring solidarity to Fords workers
Yesterday, two weeks after 1400 Ford workers were told that they face the dole, 80 ex-Ford Visteon pensioners leafleted the Ford plants in Bridgend and Dagenham as their union Unite prepares for legal action to win back the full value of their pensions from Ford. NSSN supporters gave out the leaflet at Southampton today. In…
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Crossrail dispute: Desperate BFK resort to violence
See below an excellent video made by Reel News, reporting on last weeks campaigning activity from Crossrail
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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…
