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18 June 2008

Workplace news in brief

PCS member Eddie Fleming's Employment Tribunal is taking place on 25 June, and the union is organising a lobby in his support. Eddie, the chair of the PCS union branch at the Child Support Agency (CSA), was sacked for his union activities on trumped up charges...

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30 April 2008

"Why I am standing against Labour"

PHIL JORDAN, South West Regional chair of the FBU (Fire Brigades Union) and Gloucester trades council president, is standing in Tuffley for the Gloucester city elections on 1 May as an independent...

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1 March 2008

New mass workers' party

The struggle to create a mass independent political voice for the working class is the most important task we face in this period...

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27 February 2008

Fight Devon and Somerset fire cuts

DEVON AND Somerset Fire Authority are putting pennies before public safety by adopting plans to cut 24 firefighters' jobs from Barnstaple, Exeter and Torquay, writes Jim Lowe, Devon Socialist Party

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13 February 2008

Campaign Against Climate Change trade union conference

Around 500 trade unionists gathered on 9 February for a conference called by the Campaign Against Climate Change... By Tracy Edwards, PCS

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6 February 2008

How can an alternative to the main political parties be developed?

Socialism 2007 Mark Serwotka, PCS general secretary, photo Paul Mattsson

Socialism 2007 Mark Serwotka, PCS general secretary, photo Paul Mattsson

General secretary of the Public and Commercial Services union (PCS), Mark Serwotka, has sent the contribution printed below to The Socialist, describing the attacks being made on public-sector workers by the government...

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30 January 2008

National Shop Stewards Network meetings

Yorkshire: "It took just six mobile phones and two hours to get 21,000 prison officers on strike!" National executive member Joe Simpson's account of how the Prison Officers Association (POA) organised their 'illegal' strike had an...

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17 January 2008

Fire cuts threat to our public safety

Matt Wrack, FBU General secretary, photo Paul Mattsson

Matt Wrack, FBU General secretary, photo Paul Mattsson

DEVON AND Somerset's Chief Fire Officer (CFO), Paul Young, was stopped recently from removing dedicated fire crews from aerial platforms (which are needed in larger fires)...By Jim Lowe, Devon Socialist Party

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17 May 2007

FBU conference: Preparing for future battles

"THE LAST three years have been very hard for all of us. It's time to put our heads up. We're not going backwards, we ain't running anymore, come July...

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22 March 2007

TUC try to cut conference childcare provision

Women's TUC: OVER 250 women attended the Women's TUC this year. But most of the motions contrasted sharply with the interviews with trade unionists from Ford and others...

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