Category: Reports
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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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Amnesty strike report
On Wednesday 17 October, Unite members at Amnesty’s International Secretariat (IS) offices in Central London took strike action. This is a separate dispute to the one at Amnesty UK, where two days of strike action have already taken place; there are separate ballots and issues, but both are due to managers failing to abide by…
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Amnesty workers strike
See below for details of the upcoming strike of Amnesty workers, details of the strike rally and where to send messages of support. Dear friends and colleagues Unite members at Amnesty UK went on strike for a second time last week. We have been overwhelmed by the continuing support from individuals, trade union groups,…
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Appeal from South African mine workers
Rustenburg, October 12, 2012: FROM: Rustenburg Joint Strike Coordinating Committee TO: Shop stewards, trade unionists, fellow workers, comrades RE: Appeal for support for striking South African mine workers Dear comrades, We write to appeal to you to support our strike for a decent living wage. The strike that started at Lonmin’s platinum mines in Marikana,…
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London’s new tube line – tax dodging disgrace
Below we republish a leaflet from unite on the construction of crossrail. Unite Crossrail flyer Unite construction workers – London’s new tube line – tax dodging disgrace London’s new 18 billion pound tube line, Crossrail is costing taxpayers double the cost of the Olympics. Yet tax avoidance scams by the contractors building it are rife and serious health and safety concerns for construction…
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Save Heatherwood Hospital – Fight to Win!
Just over a year ago trade unionists and local activists from Bracknell, Ascot, Windsor, Slough and Wokingham joined together to launch a campaign to save our local Hospital. The local PCT bosses had announced that they planned to close Heatherwood Hospital in Ascot and sell off the land.We formed the Save Heatherwood Hospital Campaign and…
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NUT NEC report – Ready to move to strike action?
‘PHASE ONE’ NON-STRIKE ACTION ALREADY WINNING VICTORIES Even while the National Executive was meeting, reports were coming in of new victories being won over workload, appraisal and observations. These gains were being achieved by NUT members making clear to Heads that they will be sticking together and implementing the joint action guidelines.One Lewisham reps…
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Save our Ambulance services!
East Midlands Ambulance Service (EMAS) is in a period of consultation over proposals that would mean the closure of around 60 stations. They are to be replaced with 13 super stations and ‘standby points’. These will probably be portable cabins or shared premises with the police or fire service. The chief executive says this plan…
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UCU Barnfield College Strike over working hours
UCU members were on picket lines across all five of the college’s sites as the college faced its first strike action for over 30 years over new contracts. The union estimates that the new contracts would give the college around an extra 30,000 teaching hours a year. The college has refused to say what the…
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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…
