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30 September 2009
Mass rally in support of South Yorkshire firefighters
Around 2,000 fire-fighters from all around the UK marched in Barnsley on Monday 28 September in solidarity with their Fire Brigade Union (FBU) comrades in South Yorkshire who are on the verge of taking strike action...
26 August 2009
South Yorks firefighters plan industrial action
South Yorkshire firefighters could soon be taking strike action for the first time since the national dispute in 2002, writes Alistair Tice.
22 July 2009
South Yorkshire First Buses strike over pay
It was a bad week for First Bus bosses in South Yorkshire. They lost a last ditch bid to get an injunction to stop a one-day strike going ahead and then were forced to suspend planned cuts to 28 services...
7 July 2009
EARLIER THIS year Unite, the union which represents thousands of bus drivers across the country, was told by First Bus that they were imposing a pay freeze on all its bus subsidiaries. A bus worker writes.
15 April 2009
Preparing to fight probation meltdown
PROBATION AREAS in England and Wales face budget cuts of between 13% and 25% over the next three years, writes Andy Ducker, Napo convenor, South Yorkshire branch.
4 March 2009
Industrial action at the Yorkshire Post and Yorkshire Evening Post (YP/YEP) has continued into a third week as management continue to threaten staff with the loss of 18 journalists - 10% of the editorial staff, writes Ian Slattery.
14 September 2006
Opposition forces Trusts to retreat
Wiltshire: "PEOPLE POW-ER stalls closure plans" ran the headline in the Western Daily Press. They were announcing the news that West Wiltshire and Kennet & North Wiltshire PCTs were deferring decisions to close hospitals...
27 July 2006
SOUTH YORKSHIRE First bus drivers have voted overwhelmingly in a postal ballot, by 4:1, in favour of taking strike action to secure a decent pay rise...
27 April 2006
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The Socialist Party is also standing as part of the Socialist Green Unity Coalition, who are fielding up to 50 candidates in the local elections.
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Lewisham Telegraph Hill: Councillor Ian Page, Councillor Chris Flood, Jes Leech3 November 2005
Don't let Blair wreck hospitals and schools
BLAIR'S GOVERNMENT is destroying our public services. As our reports from Yorkshire and London show our NHS and our schools are more and more...
22 September 2005
Socialists fight for workers' unity
West Yorkshire: SINCE THE London bombings on 7 and 21 July, Socialist Party branches have been fighting for class unity, against the war and terrorism and against racism, sometimes in situations where a racist backlash could have developed...
25 August 2005
First bus company raises fares and cuts services
South Yorkshire: This time last year, Sheffield Socialist Party members were on picket lines supporting South Yorkshire First bus drivers striking for better pay...
21 August 2004
Yorkshire bus drivers: Determination pays off
AFTER THREE weeks of indefinite strike action, South Yorkshire First bus drivers have won a significant victory in their pay dispute. This was one of the longest continuous strike actions in the UK bus industry for 30 years...
7 August 2004
South Yorkshire First Bus Drivers On The Road To Victory
THE INDEFINITE strike by 1,500 South Yorkshire First bus drivers, members of the transport union TGWU, is now into its third week. In a postal ballot, drivers rejected the last company offer by 723-502 votes...
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