The Socialist 31 October 2012 Solidarity with Ford workers - Defend every job  Solidarity with Ford workers - Defend every job Prepare for a 24-hour general strike Savile case: How bullies and predators thrived Tory cuts will increase child poverty Gas prices - All companies join price hike Scores of trains cancelled in west midlands Spain: Autumn heats up as general strike approaches South African miners: the struggle continues Socialist MEP obstructed by Kazakh authorities Housing: How the market has failed Birmingham cuts: council workers must lead a fightback Birmingham council threatens 1,000 jobs ... national Unison leadership responds meekly Teachers at Stratford Academy strike against scandalous pay cuts Bromley council: Drop your plans or face a strike! Glasgow Unison's fighting strategy Stop cuts at Dewsbury hospital South London NHS debt funds Tories! EDL fails in second attempt to rally in Waltham Forest Rotherham workers and youth unite against the National Front University of East London - scrap the unfair attendance policy! Student demonstration must be just the beginning |
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Home | The Socialist 31 October 2012 | Join the Socialist Party Workplace news in briefNo sackings!CWU members in Coventry held a protest on 26 October against increasingly oppressive management. The bullying and unfair sackings resulted in an unofficial walkout on 25 October in response to the latest sacking of a CWU member. The protest, which was supported by CWU members from across BT, Socialist Party members from the CWU postal section, and Unison is only the first step in the campaign. CWU members were quite clear they have had enough. They will continue to fight and strike if necessary to end this punitive management approach and get this dismissal reversed. North west NSSNAn excellent meeting of the north-west Shop Stewards Network in Manchester on 27 October brought together stewards and members across Greater Manchester and Lancashire. There were workers from Unite, UCU, NUM, Unison and BFAWU bakers' union. The main discussion on "next steps towards a one-day general strike" affirmed widespread support for the demand that the TUC name the date now for a well-prepared 24-hour strike. For more details see: www.shopstewards.netCleaners strikeRail union RMT members working in four different areas will be on a 48-hour strike over 2 and 3 November. This affects cleaners working for London Midland, East Coast mainline, Transpennine Express and the Tyne and Wear Metro. These are all long-running disputes with private contractors over poverty pay and poor working conditions. RMT general secretary Bob Crow said: "RMT is committed to a national fight to both expose the reality of the profiteering on our transport services that bullies and exploits the cleaners and also to securing living wages that keep pace with the true cost of living. "All of these individual companies know that RMT members are determined to push on with the fight for pay and workplace justice and that they have shown rock-solid solidarity on previous strike days. "The train operators and Metro authorities who give a green light to exploitation by these parasites should be using their clout to force them back to the negotiating table." British MuseumCleaners and maintenance workers at the British Museum were on strike on 29 October against privatisation plans. Around 50 members of PCS and Unite had voted overwhelmingly for industrial action against plans to outsource cleaning and facilities management to a private contractor for next April. Workers fear their already low wages will be attacked in the name of profit and their working conditions worsened. BlacklistingThe scandal of the blacklisting of workers seems to grow every day. It is now clear that workers in the rail industry have also been blacklisted by employers. Now the rail union RMT is demanding full disclosure of these files and action against all those involved in this conspiracy. In this issue
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