1 September 2010
Anti-cuts movement builds momentum in Plymouth
THE POET Shelley helped inspire a 50-strong meeting launching Plymouth's fight against the cuts. 90-year-old pensioners' campaigner, Paddy Ryan, quoted Shelley: "Rise like lions after slumber in unvanquishable...
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1 September 2010
General strike movement sweeps South Africa
THE COSATU trade union federation in South Africa has warned the African National Congress (ANC) government to meet 1.3 million public sector workers' demands for an 8.6% pay increase and a housing allowance of R1,000 a month, writes Weizmann Hamilton of the Democratic Socialist Movement in South Africa.
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1 September 2010
Battles ahead on London Underground
On 24 August, reps from transport unions TSSA and RMT met to discuss the first ever joint strike between the two unions on London Underground, writes Reg Johnstone, RMT.
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25 August 2010
London tube unions announce strike action
On 24 August, reps from transport unions TSSA and RMT met to discuss the first ever joint strike between the two unions on London Underground, writes Reg Johnstone.
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24 August 2010
Plymouth anti-cuts meeting
The immortal words of Percy Bysshe Shelley helped inspire a 50-strong meeting to launch Plymouth's fight against the cuts...
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18 August 2010
Tube staff vote for action against cuts
"RMT members have sent a clear message in this ballot that they will not sit by while the tracks are turned into a death trap and our tube stations and platforms are left unstaffed." Transport union RMT general secretary Bob Crow declared after 43% of RMT members had voted by a 76% margin to take, writes Reg Johnstone.
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18 August 2010
Airport workers win improved offer from BAA
Proposed strike action by airport workers at BAA has been called off according to Unite the Union. This follows on from what the union called "constructive talks" with BAA at ACAS...
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10 August 2010
Kirklees strike action looms closer
Kirklees Unison has launched a formal industrial action ballot, to begin strike action in September to challenge the council's headlong rush into some of the most swingeing cuts in living memory...
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4 August 2010
Angry workers strike over pay freeze and bosses' bonuses
On 27 July, for the second time in less than a week, workers at Meggitt Aircraft Braking Systems based in Coventry went out on a 24-hour strike as well as imposing a continuous ban on overtime, writes Lenny Shail.
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4 August 2010
Talks resume at British Airways
Negotiations between BA management and Unite cabin crew representatives resumed on 2 August and are continuing at the time of writing...
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