3 December 2008
Stop the repossessions
More homeowners fall behind on mortgage payments: At least 5,000 homes a week are being put up for sale as the owners can no longer afford their mortgage...
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3 December 2008
New Labour's housing crisis
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19 November 2008
Lewisham housing: Arguments against privatisation win
LAST WEEK saw another victory by Lewisham tenants in the battle against privatisation of council homes, writes Clive Heemskerk.
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19 November 2008
Drop the witch-hunt in Unison fight to Defend trade union democracy
The Socialist has reported extensively on the witch-hunt in Unison. In June 2007, the Unison bureaucracy launched a disciplinary investigation into five union officers. They were attacked for daring to...
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5 November 2008
Liverpool City Council: Housing maintenance workers fight for jobs
Since being privatised in 2000, Liverpool's housing maintenance workforce has been transferred to three different employers and has been reduced from 800 to just 300, writes Dave Walsh, TGWU/Unite branch secretary and Liverpool city council worker, personal capacity.
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22 October 2008
Fight for jobs at JCB
JCB has just announced a further reduction of 19% in direct labour costs. This equates to 500 redundancies across its UK group. This comes on top of several hundred redundancies already made since August...
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15 October 2008
Successful outcome for Suzanne Muna
The Socialist recently reported that Unison member Suzanne Muna was facing serious disciplinary action from the Housing Corporation...
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15 October 2008
Repossessions grow as banking crisis hits
THE FINANCIAL crisis is adding greatly to people's problems in getting decent housing. Despite prices of houses and flats falling at present, the previous huge price rises coupled with less disposable...
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8 October 2008
House building hits new low
ACCORDING TO the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (Rics), the rate at which new homes are being built by the private sector has fallen to a new record low...
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23 September 2008
Make the super-rich pay!
British capitalism in crisis: This was the week that the world changed. For over two decades all we have heard from the UK government is that the market must decide. Schools, hospitals and public services have been cut and privatised...
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