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Home » Index » Britain » Trade unions (Page 2)

  • Demonstrate to support London Living Wage

    Demonstrate to support London Living Wage

    • September 13, 2011
    • By Administrator
    • Britain, Trade unions
    • 1 comment

    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 [...]

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  • ‘Rank & File’ construction workers’ meeting

    ‘Rank & File’ construction workers’ meeting

    • August 15, 2011
    • By Administrator
    • Britain, Trade unions
    • 2 comments

    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 [...]

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  • A rant against militant trade unionism

    A rant against militant trade unionism

    • July 27, 2011
    • By Alan Thornett
    • Britain, Online exclusive, Reviews, Trade unions
    • no comments

    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 [...]

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  • Education unions pledge more action in Autumn

    Education unions pledge more action in Autumn

    • July 21, 2011
    • By Administrator
    • Britain, Trade unions
    • no comments

    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 [...]

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  • What can we learn from the PCS?

    What can we learn from the PCS?

    • July 20, 2011
    • By Administrator
    • Britain, Trade unions
    • no comments

    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 [...]

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  • RMT announce demonstration in Derby over Bombardier job cuts

    • July 7, 2011
    • By Administrator
    • Britain, Trade unions
    • no comments

    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 [...]

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  • Defend public sector pensions

    Defend public sector pensions

    • June 21, 2011
    • By Terry
    • Anti-cuts, Featured, Online exclusive, Trade unions
    • 3 comments

    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 [...]

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  • Defend Teacher Pensions! Defend Public Sector Pensions!

    Defend Teacher Pensions! Defend Public Sector Pensions!

    • April 15, 2011
    • By Administrator
    • Britain, Education, Trade unions
    • 1 comment

    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 [...]

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  • Militant years in the car industry

    Militant years in the car industry

    • March 24, 2011
    • By Administrator
    • Our books, Trade unions
    • 2 comments

    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 [...]

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  • Majority of NSSN Officers resign en-bloc

    Majority of NSSN Officers resign en-bloc

    • January 29, 2011
    • By Admin.
    • Trade unions
    • no comments

    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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