4 August 2010
Asda profiting from low pay
A DAMNING report was issued recently by the charity ActionAid on the "deplorable" pay and working conditions of Bangladeshi factory workers employed by British supermarket Asda - a subsidiary of US conglomerate Wal-Mart which makes £45 million a day in profit...
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9 March 2010
Solid two-day civil service strike shows anger of PCS members
PCS members have demonstrated their anger at the attack on their Civil Service Compensation Scheme by staging a solid two-day strike that has affected courts, passport offices, jobcentres, tax offices and many other government services, writes John McInally, National Vice-President PCS, personal capacity.
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23 June 2009
Come to Socialism 2009
Are you sick of low pay and long hours?
Angry at cuts, closures and privatisation? Had enough of poverty across the globe? Want an end to war and occupation? Then come to Socialism 2009.
Socialism 2009 is a weekend of political discussion and debate hosted by the Socialist Party. It offers an important opportunity for socialists, trade unionists, workers and young people to come together and share experiences of fighting back.
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5 November 2008
Canary Wharf: Low paid workers welcome socialist campaigners
In the build up to Socialism 2008 we have leafleted workplaces, colleges, shopping centres and stations all over London, writes Paula Mitchell, London Socialist Party secretary.
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4 November 2008
Striking against low pay
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PCS workers on strike, photo Paul Mattsson |
On 10 November, tens of thousands of government workers will be on strike.
This is the next stage of the campaign by civil service union PCS members to defend their jobs, their standard of living and the vital services that they provide, writes Marion Lloyd, PCS national executive, personal capacity
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8 July 2008
Striking back against low pay
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Teachers, lecturers and civil servants on strike on the same day, photo Paul Mattsson |
LAST WEEK, MPs kept their noses in the trough by voting to maintain their massive expenses and furnishing their second homes, writes Josie Nichols, secretary, Leicestershire county Unison, (personal capacity).
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28 May 2008
Tax the rich not the poor!
Over four million low-paid workers felt some relief when Gordon Brown was forced into his tax u-turn, writes Judy Beishon.
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21 May 2008
Step Up Fight Against Low Pay!
After Brown's tax u-turn... The abolition of the 10p tax rate (the hiking of income tax for those earning less than £18,500 a year) has become a powerful symbol of the contempt this government has for working people...
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7 May 2008
TUC attacks Labour on working poverty
A TIMELY report by the TUC, Hard Work, Hidden Lives, shows that New Labour politicians have much to learn about the lives of the working-class people who pushed them into power and could shove them out again...
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16 April 2008
'We're striking against low pay'
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Birmingham council workers strike on 5 February 2008. PCS and teachers will join them on 24 April. Photo S O'Neill |
On 24 April almost half a million public-sector workers will strike a blow against the government's policy of public-sector pay restraint, writes Jane Aitchison, civil service union PCS, Department for Work and Pensions group president, personal capacity.
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