Teachers Strike to Defend Children’s Education and Save Teaching Assistant Jobs Heather Rawling retired NUT member In a marvellous show of solidarity, teachers at an inner city school have taken strike action to defend children’s education and the jobs of eight teaching assistants. A united picket line demonstrated the determination of teachers to win their […]
Today on a freezing picket line in Leicester, BBC workers came out on strike to oppose “compulsory redundancies, excessive workloads and bullying and harassment within the corporation.” With union membership growing as a result of recent strike action, members of the National Union of Journalists (NUJ) and BECTU, the UK’s media and entertainment trade union, […]
Last week in Doncaster, after two days of strike action, bin-workers in Unite the union employed by Sita UK “voted 70-50 to accept a revised pay offer and return to work.” This is excellent news, and “will give confidence to a group of workers only recently unionised and still in the process of building a […]
Last week some 1,200 workers took four days of strike action at four of Argos’ key regional distribution sites. This was in opposition to Argos’ decision to end their final salary pension scheme. If management does not back down, more industrial action will certainly be forthcoming. Given the recalcitrant nature of such ruling class managers, […]
The UNITE picket line outside the Argos distribution centre at Magna Park, Lutterworth was well supported, with workers taking shifts to cover it round the clock. Passing lorries, nothing to do with the dispute were hooting their horns as they drove past the big UNITE banner. Parish Patel, UNITE regional officer said: “Our members feel […]
July 2008: On 17 July Argos workers in the Unite union launched a strike against an insulting pay offer of 3.8%, and the employer’s attempt to move them from weekly to monthly pay without any compensation. After a solid start to the strike it was eventually called off when Argos management revised their earlier pay […]
Platinum mining reaps colossal profits for a few, which is derived from the systematic abuse of many others… the others being workers who live in make-shift shacks and daily risk their lives in the employ of a depraved ruling class which craves only precious minerals and broken backs. South African political elites, whether members of […]
The TUC are meeting for the annual conference in Brighton on the 9th September. The Socialist Party supports the call of the National Shop Stewards Network to put pressure on the trade unions to call a general strike against austerity. Transport details for an important lobby of the TUC to call a 24 hour general […]
Workers at RF Brookes of South Wigston, Leicester, are facing the possibility of closure of their factory in a vindictive act by the ‘2 Sisters’ food group that owns it. In May they announced 193 redundancies along with the slashing of previously agreed redundancy terms, meaning that workers could have the double whammy of losing […]
Updated July 2016. Midlands: In December 2008, workers at 2 Sisters’ three poultry processing sites in the Midlands in the Unite union balloted for industrial action over low pay. “2 Sisters has offered £214 per week. This is just 8p an hour above the minimum wage for staff who work a 37.5 hour week.” Birmingham: […]
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