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22 July 2008

Argos workers strike against insulting pay offer

Argos workers in the Unite union on a 24-hour strike, photo Leicester Socialist Party

Argos workers in the Unite union on a 24-hour strike, photo Leicester Socialist Party


Reports: Basildon distribution plant: On 17 April Argos workers in the Unite union started a 24-hour strike against an insulting pay offer of 3.8%, and the employer's attempt to move them from weekly to monthly pay without any compensation...

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21 July 2008

Vote 'no' to Unite's new rule book

Members of Unite, the union formed through the merger of Amicus and the Transport and General Workers' Union (TGWU), are currently being balloted on the proposed rules accepted by its joint executive council in April, writes Kevin Parslow, secretary, Unite branch 1/1228, personal capacity.

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11 June 2008

Brighton bus drivers strike

Drivers at Brighton and Hove Buses which is run by Go Ahead, have voted to take six days of strike action on consecutive Mondays beginning on 20 June. This is after the drivers, organised in the Unite union, rejected pay offers by management, writes Phil Clarke, Brighton Socialist Party.

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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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3 June 2008

Belfast Airport workers: The long battle for justice

The Socialist has carried regular articles about the battle being waged by three shop stewards, sacked from their security jobs at Belfast Airport...

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3 June 2008

Come to the national shop stewards network conference

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.

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29 May 2008

Unite the union call for police to take action against their own members

Gordon McNeill's health deteriorates - ambulance called...

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29 May 2008

Sacked airport shop steward, Gordon McNeill, calls off hunger strike

Doctors threaten court action to have him force fed

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28 May 2008

I told my union: "We need a new workers' party"

THE TRADE union, Unite, recently wrote to its members "to determine your thoughts on how you think the country is being run". Campaign for a New Workers' Party supporter Colin Trousdale returned this response...

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20 May 2008

Belfast airport workers: Union leaders' broken promises

Three sacked Belfast Airport shop stewards, members of Unite (T&G), have resumed their protest to achieve payment of legal costs and hardship money from their union, writes Kevin Parslow.

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