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12 November 2008 AROUND FOUR and a half million pensioners in Britain are forced to stay in just one heated room to save on fuel costs, a new report reveals, writes Roger Shrives. 15 October 2008 On 10 October, over 80 technicians, porters and IT services staff, members of Unite, went out on the first of four strike days as Sussex university launched another attack on staff, writes Lee Vernon, Sussex university students union. 10 September 2008 The pensions workshop at this summer's National Shop Stewards Network conference was very informative and an issue of key importance to all workers, writes Alec Thraves, Swansea trades council. 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. 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, 1 - 10 of 44 | Next > | |||||||||||||||
