The Socialist 3 March 2010

Fighting for jobs, services and conditions

PCS: All Out to Defend Jobs and Services

Stop council cuts

Invest in jobs, education & Training

Cut the working hours, not the jobs!

Portsmouth students and workers unite to fight cuts

Brighton students say: Save our nursery

EMA inadequacy impacts badly on students

Building action across Europe

Greece - millions take part in general strike

Spain: Thousands join mass demonstrations

The fairytale world of RBS

Nationalise the energy giants

Activists launch socialist challenge

Walsgrave hospital Coventry: Stop the parking charges rip-off

Fast news

Where is the BA cabin crew dispute going?

Smash the bosses' construction blacklist!

Leeds lecturers win concessions - but cuts remain to be fought

Workplace news: In brief

Unison general secretary election: Nominate Roger Bannister

Legal ruling exposes hypocrisy of Unison leadership

FBU general secretary speaks to The Socialist

Women will be at the fore in the fightback!

Global media monster News International condemned

The hounding of Tommy Sheridan

Savage cuts planned at the Beeb

Supporters should own Pompey, not developers

The worldwide thievery of big business

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Smash the bosses' construction blacklist!

On 5 March there will be another mass protest at Fiddlers Ferry power station, in support of blacklisted electrician Steve Acheson. Steve was unfairly dismissed from the site in December 2008.

Adam Smart, Socialist Party, Warrington

Company security, assisted by a police officer, stole Steve's protest banners a few weeks ago as reported in The Socialist. However following a mass protest outside the gates, the banners were returned on 26 February.

Steve was singled out for redundancy ahead of 20 others, despite the site's "last in - first out" policy. Previously Scottish and Southern Electricity, who run the site, had dismissed claims of a blacklist being used. But this has now been exposed. Steve has been branded a "troublemaker" for standing up for his basic rights as a worker.

A clear message must be sent to both New Labour and the higher echelons of Unite that we will not stand by while one man is bullied and abused by a company making £1 billion annual profits! We must put pressure upon our unions to smash the blacklist, through legislation where possible but above all through genuine union organisation on the sites against the employers.

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