The Socialist 8 July 2010

Mass action can stop cuts

Mass action can stop cuts

Build united action to stop the cuts

What the Socialist Party says

Con-Dem budget cuts: Hitting those on benefits hardest

How will George Osborne's budget affect families?

Housing benefit cuts - increasing homelessness

Cuts to disability benefits will increase misery

Fight the savage cuts by Neath/Port Talbot council

Hull: Rallying against the austerity budget

'Godfather' turning in his grave

NUS anti-cuts conference

Youth Fight for Jobs Protest!

BNP forced to abandon its 'festival of hate'

South Africa: 5,000 sacked miners on strike

Kazakhstan: The fight goes on

News in brief

Organise against academies now!

Limited new 'final' offer facing BA cabin crew

PCS will fight new attack on redundancy pay

Unison by-election: fighting leadership needed

Shrewsbury Pickets march for justice

Lindsey refinery fire death: inquiry needed

Workplace news in brief

Unite general secretary election:

Interview: Ken Clarke's prison plans

Pride, prejudice, fightback and hypocrisy

A warm welcome at Summer Camp

Socialism 2010 Saturday 6 - Sunday 7 November

When the financial wizardry lost its magic

Mali's master of the ngoni

Previous issues, etc

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Workplace news in brief

RMT conference

The 2010 RMT transport workers' union conference totally rejected the Con-Dems' attacks on the working class.

Delegate after delegate warned of the cuts to come. Even MP John McDonnell, the convener of the RMT parliamentary group, called for extra-parliamentary action to force the Con-Dem government out of office.

The union also called for RMT members and others to organise to defeat the anti-trade union laws. The conference overwhelmingly supported the executive decision to support Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition candidates in elections and to continue to work for workers' political representation.

A London Underground worker

London Underground

RMT members employed by Tubelines, a failed maintenance company that has now been taken back in-house by Transport for London, are taking strike action from the evening of 14 July until 16 July.

The action is taking place to oppose jobs cuts and attacks on working conditions. During the first strike on 23-25 June, many train drivers refused to work on health and safety grounds.

RMT members employed by London Underground are also being balloted for strike action, likely to take place in August, against 800 job cuts (see The Socialist issue 631 for more details).

Opposing health cuts in East Lancashire

Health workers in East Lancashire are fighting against threats to frontline jobs and working conditions at the special centre for people with learning disabilities in Whalley.

Calderstone NHS Trust, which runs the facility, is having £5 million cut from its budget over the next three years.

This could result in 200 job losses.

One hundred health workers and their supporters marched through Whalley village on 30 June to protest against the cuts as part of a union-organised day of action.

A Whalley health worker

BT ballot cancelled

The Communication Workers Union (CWU) has called off the balloting of its members in BT over the company's 2010 pay offer, following legal advice that anti-union laws could be used to invalidate the ballot.

There will now be further negotiations between the CWU and BT while the union looks to re-ballot. More in a future issue of The Socialist.

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