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19 November 2008
 JCB: Pay cuts haven't saved our jobs!
A further 400 redundancies have been announced at JCB. This brings the total jobs lost since August this year to over 1,000 at its UK factories, a JCB worker writes.
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29 October 2008
JCB - Why should we accept redundancies and pay cuts?
Workers at JCB's UK factories have voted by a two thirds majority to move to short time working, from 39 to 34 hours a week. This will mean a pay cut of over £50 a week, writes A JCB worker.
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22 October 2008
Fight for jobs at JCB
JCB has just announced a further reduction of 19% in direct labour costs. This equates to 500 redundancies across its UK group. This comes on top of several hundred redundancies already made since August...
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4 June 2008
Union members reject pay insult
THOUSANDS OF NHS workers have rejected the government's below-inflation three-year pay offer...
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19 February 2008
No wage cuts! Fund equal pay
 | Birmingham council workers strike on 5 February 2008. Photo S O'Neill |
"No pay cuts!" "Equal pay for women, now!" That's what Birmingham council workers will be saying as they strike for the second time on 26 February. Tens of thousands of members of GMB, Amicus, TGWU, UCATT and Unison struck on 5 February...
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20 September 2007
Remploy workers fight for jobs
 | Remploy workers rally against closure threat, photo Chris Moore |
"If need be, we will take this attitude to the battlefield and with this attitude, we will win"
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13 September 2007
Fighting Unions Need a New party
 | RMT protest against Tube privatisation, photo Paul Mattsson |
Smash the pay freeze: Insisting that public sector workers must accept below inflation pay rises - in reality, pay cuts - Gordon Brown showed how little difference there is between the Blair and Brown governments... By Councillor Dave Nellist Chair, Campaign for a New Workers' Party.
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9 August 2007
Save our NHS: Stop fat cat robbery
 | Health workers demonstrate in Hackney, photo Paul Mattsson |
Save our NHS: Thousands of nurses and doctors are unable to find jobs in our health service after millions of pounds have been spent on training them.
Jon Smith, GMB branch secretary, Sheffield Children's Hospital, writes (in a personal capacity)
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12 July 2007
Fighting low pay, defending jobs and services
 | Postal workers on strike, photo Socialist Party |
POST WORKERS in the Communication Workers Union (CWU) are holding a second 24-hour national strike from the evening of Thursday 12 July to Friday 13 July...
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14 June 2007
Merger with GMB?
Eyebrows were raised at the NEC when General Secretary Dave Prentis announced that he had agreed a policy of close and joint working between UNISON and GMB....
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