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6 February 2008
 MPs' insult to low-paid workers
 | TGWU cleaners demonstrating against low pay, photo Molly Cooper |
LOW-PAID public sector workers are facing three years of below-inflation pay rises. Low paid workers earn a fraction of their MP's salary, writes Adrian O'Malley, Unison branch chair, Wakefield and Pontefract Hospitals, Pinderfields Hospital.
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17 January 2008
Editorial: Fight three year low pay tie-ins
German train drivers have just won an 11% wage increase. German Telecom workers on the other hand have suffered accumulated wage cuts amounting to 25%...
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4 October 2007
Classroom assistants on strike
 | Brown dashed from the TUC to meet the hated Margaret Thatcher |
Northern Ireland: OVER 2,000 classroom assistants took part in a solid one-day strike across Northern Ireland on 26 September against a pay cut and attacks on working conditions... By Gary Mulcahy Socialist Party Belfast
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20 September 2007
TUC conference: Workers defy Brown
 | Brown dashed from the TUC to meet the hated Margaret Thatcher |
TUC conference - public-sector pay: At last week's TUC conference, Gordon Brown used his speech to kick public-sector trade unionists in the teeth by repeating his demands for pay "discipline"...
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19 July 2007
Postal workers - fighting low pay, against privatisation and job cuts
 | Postal workers on strike, photo Socialist Party |
Royal Mail postal workers held a second successful 24-hour strike, that started at 7pm on Thursday 12 July. Delivery and sorting offices throughout the country were brought to a halt, as the workers' anger against low pay, job losses and other cuts made itself felt.
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12 July 2007
Fighting low pay, defending jobs and services
 | Postal workers on strike, photo Socialist Party |
POST WORKERS in the Communication Workers Union (CWU) are holding a second 24-hour national strike from the evening of Thursday 12 July to Friday 13 July...
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21 June 2007
Why you should join ISR
War, low pay, top-up fees, climate change, racism; this is why you should join International Socialist Resistance (ISR). ...
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7 June 2007
Ritzy - low-paid workers strike again
AFTER A one-day strike on 26 May, staff at Ritzy cinema in Brixton struck again on 1 June. Shop steward Jackie Brethold of the union BECTU spoke to Neil Cafferky.
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7 June 2007
Young people: a bright future... or different shades of grey
What's facing young people today?: YOUNG PEOPLE today are more likely to be regarded by the government and the bosses' press as a threat and a nuisance, rather than the next generation that needs encouragement and development...
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7 June 2007
The fat cat and the 'cleaning lady'
NICHOLAS FERGUSON is chairman of SVC Capital, the firm that built Europe's biggest private equity fund, "almost from scratch"...
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