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Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition
25 January 2012
Stop the Salford day centre closures
Over 100 people - service users, carers, staff, pensioners - filled the room at a Salford Unison protest meeting to stop the closure of two day centres for the elderly and disabled, writes Salford Socialist Party.
National Pensioners Convention on a 2007 TUC lobby of Parliament, photo Paul Mattsson
14 December 2011
Pensioners and workers - united fight needed
When I addressed 2,000 striking public sector workers on 30 November in Reading, I brought greetings of solidarity and unity from the Thames Valley National Pensioners Convention (NPC), writes Terry Pearce, Thames Valley National Pensioners Convention (personal capacity).
30 November 2011
The Con-Dems don't: Two recent reports highlight the plight of the elderly in England and Wales. Firstly, the Office for National Statistics reported 25,700 deaths due to cold weather in 2010/11
30 November 2011
The Tory solution to pensioner poverty?
The winter fuel allowance scandal: You will have heard of Good King Wenceslas. You may not have heard of his evil twin Bad King Wenceslas, writes Derek McMillan.
31 October 2011
BBC discriminates against pensioners
Last week Salford Pensioners' Association, along with members of Salford against Cuts, lobbied the BBC at Salford's Media City, against ageism.
12 October 2011
Pensions: The National Pensioners Convention is launching a Rights in Retirement campaign week from 24 to 29 October 2011, writes Terry Pearce
24 June 2011
National Pensioners Convention parliament
Support for workers on 30 June: 1,500 pensioners from all over Britain attended the National Pensioners Convention parliament in Blackpool on 14-16 June
200 Visteon pensioners demonstrated outside parliament on Tuesday 29 March as Ford executives met MPs , photo by Mike Gard
6 April 2011
Call for strikes to stop Ford attack on pensions
Strike action is looming in Ford as the patience of both workers and pensioners runs out, writes Rob Williams, NSSN anti-cuts convenor and former Swansea Visteon (ex-Ford) Unite convenor.
2 February 2011
Ford challenged in legal bid: Pay the Visteon pensioners now!
On the very day that Ford Motor Company announced huge profits of $6.6 billion after tax, Unite has launched legal action against the car giant in a bid to win back lost pensions for over 3,000 pensioners, writes Rob Williams, Former Unite convenor at Swansea Visteon/Linamar Plant.
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