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23 May 2012
AEI Cables: "Thrown out in disgraceful circumstances"
A worker and trade unionist who was sacked at AEI Cables in Birtley, Tyne and Wear in 2011 sent us this report on what happened last year...
22 February 2012
No choice but more action: Transport union RMT member Richie Veitch recently wrote a letter to his local paper about the cleaners on the Tyne and Wear Metro, whose pay and conditions have been severely undermined since the Metro was privatised...
14 February 2012
Health workers gagged in Gateshead
Note: update added on 18.2.12. When health workers are gagged from speaking out at public consultation meetings, being told they can only intervene as residents, alarm bells begin to sound
27 January 2012
Low-paid Tyne and Wear Metro cleaners fight for free travel
"If Bernard gets up your nose - picket!", was the slogan on the leaflet handed out by cleaners from Churchill Contract Services who work on Tyne and Wear Metro.
23 August 2011
Tyne and Wear: Churchill Metro workers begin fightback
From the onset Churchill has reneged on the TUPE transfer agreement, which should have guaranteed working conditions...
AEI Cables, sacked workers protesting, June 2011, photo Elaine Brunskill
24 June 2011
'AEI - You owe us' chanted sacked workers on a demonstration outside the factory gates of AEI cables in Birtley, in Tyne and Wear
The Keep Metro Public campaign in Newcastle, photo Elaine Brunskill
9 December 2009
New Labour gift wraps Tyne and Wear Metro
On 4 December it was announced that DB Regio is the preferred bidder, over the in-house bid, to operate the Tyne and Wear Metro from April next year, writes Norman Hall, Keep Metro Public (KMP) steering committee and Socialist Party member and Stan Herschel, RMT regional organiser and Socialist Party Member.
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