Wednesday 14 September, 11.30am Senate House carpark (Russell Square side) Bloomsbury Fightback Labour MPs Frank Dobson and John McDonnell are supporting the cleaners’ fight against the University of London. Workers at the University of London will be holding a mass [...]
Some names have been left out deliberately to guard against any employer retribution. 5OO Electricians and pipefitters sent out a clear message to JIB/HVCA employers and Unite the union that they will not accept the de-skilling of their trade or [...]
A review of ‘Turbulent Times in the Car Industry – Memories of a Trade Union Official at Cowley Oxford’ by David Buckle. Paperback, 110 pages, £4.99. Published by David Buckle MBE April 2011. ISBN: 978-0-9568632-0-1. Alan Thornett Former Oxford TGWU [...]
This is the text of a letter to their members from the general secretaries of the three teaching unions which took strike action in June. The industrial action our members took on 30 June was a success and made clear [...]
This article has been sent to us by an activist in the PCS. It was not a surprise that the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) was one of the four unions involved in 30th June. It has a far [...]
Details of the timings and the route of the Derby protest are still being agreed with the police and the council and further details will be available shortly. Meanwhile, rail union RMT demanded a halt to the tendering process after [...]
Roy Wilkes For teachers and civil servants, as well as for many other public sector workers, the opening salvo in the war against cuts is turning out to be a momentous battle to defend pensions. NUT, ATL and PCS have [...]
Roy Wilkes looks forward to the debate on pensions at the National Union of Teachers’ (NUT) conference. There is a strong possibility that NUT members will be balloted for national discontinuous strike action in defence of our pension soon after [...]
Resistance Books has just published Alan Thornett’s new book Militant Years on the struggles of car workers in the Cowley plants and beyond in the militant period of the 1960s and 1970s. You can order it here. There was an [...]
At a meeting immediately following Saturday 22nd January’s NSSN anti-cuts conference, the majority of NSSN (National Shop Stewards Network) national officers-all of those not in the Socialist Party- have resigned. This is the statement of four of these officers: Dave Chapple, [...]
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