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8 February 2012
Stagecoach South Yorkshire - management getting desperate
It was -15C. Bus drivers started picketing in Rotherham at 4.30am, on their 11th strike day
25 January 2012
Pontefract hospital: Army withdrawn - now kick out PFI!
At Pontefract hospital in West Yorkshire NHS bosses had been in discussion about using army medics to help run the accident and emergency unit, writes Adrian O'Malley, Unison Mid Yorkshire Health branch secretary (personal capacity).
16 January 2012
South Yorkshire Stagecoach bus drivers take eighth day of strike action
Stagecoach bus drivers in Barnsley and Rotherham, members of the Unite trade union, took their eight day of strike action on Monday 16th January in pursuit of their pay claim for £9.50 an hour...
8 December 2011
South Yorkshire Stagecoach bus drivers' strike
Stagecoach South Yorkshire bus drivers, members of the Unite trade union, took two more days of strike action on 2 and 3 December in pursuit of their claim for £9/hour pay parity with their Sheffield colleagues...
23 November 2011
South Yorkshire Fire Authority is planning to close four fire stations, take three engines out of service and cut 140 firefighters' jobs (20% of the workforce) by introducing four consecutive 24 hour shifts...
23 November 2011
South Yorkshire bus drivers, members of Unite the union, took strike action on 18 and 21 November. Many pickets were out all day on both days at the Barnsley and Rawmarsh (Rotherham) depots, writes Alistair Tice.
8 October 2011
1,000 march in Yorkshire in support of Jarrow march
Flying in the face of some misleading newspaper reports, 1,000 people have marched in Yorkshire in support of the Jarrow march
8 September 2011
Striking journalists suspend action for talks
NUJ members at South Yorkshire Newspapers have returned to work after 55 days on strike
30 August 2011
South Yorkshire Newspapers strike now in seventh week
Striking journalists travelled to London on 25 August to present a 3,000 signature petition to the CEO of parent company Johnston Press
10 August 2011
Demonstration in support of four-week south Yorkshire NUJ strike
Chants of "No more Murdochs, support the strike" rang through Doncaster as protesters demonstrated their support for striking journalists
1 August 2011
National Union of Journalists members in Doncaster, Selby and Mexborough are now in the third week of indefinite strike action
20 July 2011
South Yorkshire journalists start all-out strike
Twenty NUJ journalists at South Yorkshire Newspapers have marched out on a unanimous, indefinite strike over greedy owners Johnston Press's latest efforts to hack their jobs
13 July 2011
South Yorkshire journalists on indefinite strike from Friday
The South Yorkshire National Union of Journalists (NUJ) newspapers chapel voted unanimously for an all-out indefinite strike from Friday 15 July...
15 June 2011
Arriving in Dewsbury on the day of an English Defence League (EDL) march, I was immediately met with an incredibly tense atmosphere
27 April 2011
NHS cuts Leeds: Save Yorkshire's children's heart surgery unit
Over the past few weeks, dozens of volunteers and activists have taken to the streets of Leeds in an effort to stop the planned closure of the Children's Heart Surgery Unit at Leeds General Infirmary, writes Michael Johnson, Leeds City Socialist Party.
27 April 2011
A successful campaign has been launched to oppose the racist British National Party in South Elmsall, West Yorkshire, writes Steve Faulkner, Yorkshire Socialist Party.
30 March 2011
Vote for a fighting democratic Unison leadership
Unison members, along with all other workers in both public and private sectors, are facing unprecedented attacks from the Con-Dem government, local councils and employers...
9 February 2011
Yorkshire: organising the student movement
Calderdale and Kirklees: The launch meeting of the Calderdale and Kirklees Student Assembly (CKSA) took place on Sunday 30 January in Halifax, writes Katie Bates, Secretary CKSA.
20 December 2010
Students in Bradford call an all-Yorkshire assembly
At their final meeting of the term, Bradford Student Solidarity (BSS, the anti-cuts campaign at Bradford university) agreed to host an all-Yorkshire Student Assembly on Sunday 6 February...
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