16 August
5,000 textile workers in Gaziantep, Turkey are taking industrial action for an
indefinite period for increased pay and for a better working environment...Read More
30 July
Reports from the second day of strike action in
Remploy factories from England, Scotland and Wales...
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Why I’m lobbying the TUC
for a 24-hour general strike 27 July
When my father used to tell me of the
privations he endured in the 1930s depression including walking from Brighton to
Aldershot in a fruitless search for work it just sounded like scary stories from
history, but I can see things going back that far and further if this government
isn’t challenged...
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27 July
two personal views of how the dockers defeated the
Tories...
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Kazakhstan: Vadim Kuramshin
threatens hunger strike protest 24 July
Vadim Kuramshin, the prison rights campaigner arrested 6 months ago on trumped
up charges has declared that if the trial against him is not resumed within ten
days he will declare a hunger strike... Read More
24 July
Three hundred textile workers in the Hualon Corporation’s factory in Miaoli
County, Taiwan declared indefinite strike more than a month ago on 6 June. Since
then they have occupied the factory for one month to stop the machines from
being moved out. They are fighting for money owed on their wages and pensions
going back over a decade... Read More
20 July
The North West Shop Stewards Network held its AGM
on July 17. Thirty trade unionists heard Steve Acheson, blacklisted electrician,
speak on the recent BESNA victory and the continuing battle against
blacklisting... read more
20 July Solidarity from
the PCS DWP group, from its group president Fran Heathcote...
read more
Essex firefighters strike:
42 take on “big brother”
20 July Hundreds of striking firefighters and
their supporters paraded through Essex's county town of Chelmsford on Wednesday
18th July in a show of defiance against the dictatorial attitudes of the Fire
Authority and the unnecessary cuts in service they are trying to force
through... read more
18 JulyOn
behalf of the DWP Group within PCS, I am sending a message of solidarity and
support for your action tomorrow in Remploy, writes Fran Heathcote DWP Group
President...read
more
17 July About 60 union reps, mainly
from the rail unions, but also from the NHS, civil service and
local government, came to the Manchester ‘Action For Rail’
conference to organise resistance to the McNulty report into the
future of the railways... read
more
17 July
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...
read more
16 July
One law for the rich another for the workers. Updates from FBU Essex, GMB
Carillion and Remploy plus international reports from Spanish miners dispute...read
more
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...read
more
06 July
Victory for SOVA strike! Organising the fight back against austerity. Updates
disputes in fire service, coast guard, food processing industry, victimisations
and international disputes...read
more
04 June
The NSSN will be organising a lobby of
the TUC Conference on September 9th to push for general strike action against
austerity. The NSSN has produced a model letter to all London trade union reps
inviting them to an organising meeting on July 17th. The model letter can be
down loaded
here...read
more
03 July A
coalition of groups protested outside the Department of Work &
Pensions over plans to reduce workplace safety and endanger the
lives of workers...read
more
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 17 consecutive 12 hour
days...read
more
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...read
more
31 August
National Hazards conference, Keele University
[email protected]
9 September
Lobby
the TUC for a 24 hour general strike: Assemble 1pm at The
Level park - Union Road, Brighton BN2 for march at 1.30pm to
Brighton (conference) Centre and then rally
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MIDLANDS NSSN
ConferenceUnite
offices, 211 Broad Street, Birmingham, B15 1AY. 1200-1600. Speakers
include Joe Simpson, Assistant General Secretary of the POA
20
October TUC Mass demonstration against austerity
