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3 June 2008 Time to fight back, time to organise: Millions of public-sector workers have had their pay frozen when real inflation is rocketing, writes Rob Williams, Unite convenor, Swansea Visteon plant, personal capacity. 21 May 2008 Postman Pat joins the CWU picket line in East London during a CWU strike, photo Naomi Byron 29 April 2008
At 6am on 27 April the night shift at Grangemouth oil refinery walked out on strike, writes Ian Leech. 23 April 2008
Grangemouth refinery: FUEL STRIKE 'will bleed pumps dry' and 'Panic at the pumps,' were some of the sensation-seeking headlines in Scotland's newspapers on 20 April, writes Philip Stott, Dundee. 25 March 2008
ON WEDNESDAY 19 March Greece experienced one of the greatest general strikes in its history, writes Andros Payiatsos, Xekinima (CWI Greece), Athens. 19 March 2008 In 2006 the railway trade unions, Aslef, RMT and TSSA, threatened industrial action to defend our pensions... 11 March 2008
New Labour's co-ordinated attack on the public sector has not, to date, been met by co-ordinated action by the public sector unions, despite the best efforts of the left-led PCS civil servants union. PCS national executive committee member JOHN MCINALLY replies in a personal capacity to allegations published by the Socialist Workers Party (SWP) that the PCS leadership blocked the possibility of public sector unity in the recent CWU postal workers' dispute. This article was first published in Socialism Today March 2008. 4 March 2008
20 February 2008
ON 13 February, tens of thousands of workers, pensioners and youth from all over Greece came out for the second time in less than two months in a general strike to defend their pension rights.... By Kyriakos Halaris, 20 February 2008 178 train drivers working for London Midland and based at Bletchley are to strike on 28 and 29 February in a dispute about pension payments... By Aslef member 1 - 10 of 36 | Next > |