Category: Reports
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Remploy Strike 1
20 July For months the Con-Dem government have stated their intention to close 36 out of 54 Remploy factories across the UK. Remploy workers had already voted overwhelmingly to take strike action on 19 and 26 July to save these plants and the related jobs. Now this has added urgency because on 10 July the government…
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RMT cleaners Trans Pennine Express strike
Warrington Trades Council was pleased to help RMT members employed as cleaners on the Trans-Pennine Express route as they leafleted passengers outside Warrington Central station on Saturday. The cleaners were on strike against the rock-bottom pay and conditions offered by Carlisle Cleaning and Support Services, their employer. One particular bone of contention is the 25p…
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Nottingham FE students fight cuts!
06 July On Thursday 5th July, over 100 students from New College Nottingham (NCN) protested outside the High Pavement campus against attacks on their education. Armajit Basi, the principal of the college, is proposing to move students from two other campuses of NCN to High Pavement and then close the other sites. However, there is already a strain…
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Union reps call for a 24 hour general strike – Wales SSN conference prepares for action!
02 July 70 trade unionists in 10 unions from all over Wales, mainly reps and shops stewards, gathered in Cardiff at the annual conference of the Wales Shop Stewards Network on June 30th. The conference was taking place at a time when there are dozens of disputes taking place but while there is also a summer…
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Beauly-Denny construction workers win swift victory in unofficial action (by Sean Robertson)
The following article was written by Sean Robertson and is reproduced from the The Point website 02 July On the 26th and 27th June , around 40 Balfour Beatty foundation construction workers went on strike with the intention of making the company stick to earlier promises that workers could expect a four day weekend in return for working…
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Fighting to defend the NAECI at Fawley refinery
28 June There was a huge tail back of traffic outside the Esso Oil Refinery at Fawley in Hampshire this yesterday morning (27 June) where Unite staged a protest in defence of the NAECI/Blue Book agreement. Esso’s parent company Exxon Mobil is starting a shutdown on the Cat Cracker plant but along with the main contractor, is…
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Coryton refinery workers to spread protests across the country on Monday
20 June The fight to keep Coryton refinery open will intensify this Monday. Protests against the closure have been called at Vopak oil terminal in Purfleet, Essex, Lindsey oil refinery, North Lincolnshire and Grangemouth oil refinery in Falkirk. All the protests will start at 1:00 PM. The Coryton workers are members of Unite. Closure of the…
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Five hundred food processing workers strike in Leicester
19 June Yesterday, 500 workers at RF Brookes factory in Leicester took their third day of concerted strike action to oppose the unjust policies imposed on them by their profit hungry management. Attacks on the workers at this food processing factory in South Wigston typify capitalist attempts to squeeze every last drop of profit from otherwise…
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NSSN conference calls for one-day general strike against austerity
11 June Around 500 workplace reps assembled in Friends Meeting House in London Euston today for an excellent sixth annual National Shop Stewards Network conference. After watching a moving film commemorating the many struggles and anti-cuts events over the last year, NSSN chair Rob Williams kicked off the day’s discussions, reminding the audience that it was…
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“We’re not here to sit and complain but to take action forward”: Rank and file NUT members meet in Liverpool
8 June The following two article’s are from Martin Powell-Davies, branch secretary of Lewisham NUT Local Association and NUT NEC member for inner London. Martin was one of the key organisers of Saturday’s conference. Over 100 NUT delegates gathered in Liverpool on June 16 for the founding Conference of the ‘Local Associations Network’. The Conference was…
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BESNA beaten, now organise to bin the Blacklist!
Around 70 rank and file construction workers met in the Mechanics Institute, Manchester on Saturday 17th March to discuss the significant victory against the ‘Dirty 7’ companies and to plan the way forward to end the blacklist, agency working and to stop the bosses war against jobs, pay and conditions. Speaking from the platform Jerry…
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Privatisation and cuts are destroying the Fire service: A Coventry FBU rep speaks out
02 February The Fire service both locally and Nationally is in crisis. The government has cut the funding to some Brigades of up to 25% including the West Mids Fire service which is one of the worst hit in the country. And trying to find 25% savings whilst still providing the emergency cover and service…
