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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
 | 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
 | 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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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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16 April 2008
'We're striking against low pay'
 | 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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16 April 2008
Tax attack hits low paid workers
GORDON BROWN and New Labour are carrying out daylight robbery against the lowest paid workers, writes Tom Penman, CWU member and call centre worker, Dundee.
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4 March 2008
Angry civil servants strike over pay
Over 8,000 PCS members in the Department for Transport (DfT) took strike action across Wales, England and Scotland on 29 February to campaign for the same pay rates across the department and to defend jobs...
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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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