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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 Postal workers' picket line in East London, photo Naomi Byron 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 22 November 2007
EX-PRIME Minister Tony Blair recently shored up his personal retirement plans by £250,000 or more, while the government he used to lead was undermining the future prospects of a secure retirement for millions.... By Ray Murphy 6 September 2007 The Super-Rich, the owners of Britain's industrial and financial giants, are getting enormously richer while workers are more and more forced to take industrial action merely to defend their pay, pensions and conditions... 19 July 2007
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