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Manchester
31 August 2011
31st August - further day of protest by construction workers
Campaigning against the 'Big 8' construction employers' attempts to impose a 35% cut in wages, electricians and other workers protested outside the Westfield centre in East London
24 August 2011
Construction workers fight to defend national agreements in London and Manchester
Hundreds of electricians protested outside the Balfour Beatty site at Blackfriars train station today (24 August). Workers also protested in Manchester.
Scaffolders and electricians support the locked out Saltend Redhall workers, photo by Socialist Party
2 May 2011
Solidarity action builds for BP/Vivergo Saltend workers
Addition appended 3.5.11 The 400 Redhall construction workers, locked out for two months by BP/Vivergo from the bioethanol plant at Saltend, Hull, received two big boosts to their campaign for reinstatement last week. (An edited version of this article appeared in The Socialist issue 669.)
21 October 2009
Giant energy company hounds unemployed electrician
Blacklisted electrician and Unite member Steve Acheson has been protesting outside Fiddlers Ferry power station, Warrington, since his unfair dismissal by contractors in December 2008, writes A Merseyside Socialist Party member.
8 July 2009
Venture vultures: THE SERIOUS Fraud Office is investigating the circumstances behind the collapse of the MG Rover car plant at Longbridge, Birmingham in 2005...
26 November 2008
Strike saves jobs at Fiddlers Ferry
Two days of solid 'unofficial' strike action won back 65 jobs for electricians on the Fiddlers' Ferry power station site, Merseyside, writes Hugh Caffrey.
19 March 2008
Electricians Steve Acheson, Graham Bowker and Tony Jones were "unfairly selected for redundancy due to trade union activities" on the Manchester Royal Infirmary site, according to an industrial tribunal...
1 February 2007
SINCE LAST April, three sacked electricians have protested against the employers on the major Manchester Royal Infirmary (MRI) construction site...
24 April 2004
Eleven Months On Strike - Sacked Electricians Fight On
ELECTRICIANS SACKED by DAF Electrical remain on strike, nearly a year after they walked out in defence of their union reps. DAF attempted to break the union but has dismally failed...
28 February 2004
Fighting The Bosses And The BNP
Manchester electricians: FOR NEARLY 40 weeks, electricians (members of EPIU-TGWU) in Manchester, illegally sacked by cowboy construction company DAF Electrical, have been on strike demanding reinstatement...
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