Liverpool Social Struggles Newswire Archive

03-02-2007 22:43 | 4 comments

Lancaster UAF move house

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02-02-2007 18:15

Defend Public Health March in Liverpool

Merseyside TUC at its meeting on Saturday 20th January agreed to support the NHS Together NW TUC regional demonstration on 3rd March and also to organise a pre-demonstration to be held on: Read more >>

22-01-2007 19:18 | 2 comments

Fack Corporate Killers

Families Against Corporate Killers (FACK) is a group of families who have been bereaved by work. In Liverpool on 8th February, Three founder members of FACK will speak of their own experiences of their loss, their further victimisation by the criminal justice system, and of possible ways forward for appropriate legal responses to corporate killers. Read more >>

21-01-2007 18:00 | 1 comment

Fire Authority Sticks the Knife In (Symbolically At Least)

The following facts are all we know for certain. A non-union firefighter - who sided with the Fire Authority's cuts agenda last year by crossing the Fire Brigades Union picket line - was badly injured when he tried to put one of his boots on. His foot was sliced open when he brought it down on a Stanley knife blade. Read more >>

19-01-2007 00:03 | 4 comments

Another Horrific Workplace Death on Merseyside

Just two days after the horrible death of a construction worker in Liverpool, another Merseyside worker was killed on the job, in equally unpleasant circumstances. Read more >>

18-01-2007 23:22

Do Merseyside Fire Authority Want A Rematch?

Since the partial defeat of their cuts agenda last summer, Merseyside Fire Authority have been steadily stepping up provocations against the Fire Brigades Union. In November, letters were served to fourteen emergency crew members, calling them to hearings over incidents during the September walkout, including one for 'smiling aggressively'. Then a firefighter got in trouble for drinking a cup of tea. Now management have locked FBU members out of their own meeting at West Derby fire station, forcing them to hold the meeting in the rain! Read more >>

16-01-2007 01:08 | 5 comments

Construction Worker Killed in Liverpool City Centre

It had only been a matter of time before Liverpool City Centre saw a construction worker die on the job. Yesterday, the inevitable happened, and a 120 foot crane collapsed, killing one man and seriously injuring another at Duke Terrace, near Seel Street. Read more >>

13-01-2007 18:03 | 1 comment

Vigil: Styal Prison, Cheshire - 18 January 2007

A vigil will be held outside HMP & YOI Styal, Cheshire
Thursday 18 January 2007, 1.30 pm - 4.00 pm
to mark the 4th anniversary of the death of Sarah Elizabeth Campbell, 18
who died in the so-called care of HMP & YOI Styal on 18.01.03
Reporters & photographers are welcome to attend Read more >>

09-01-2007 18:46

Advertising Cancer Infects NHS

Yes, you read it right. Now that we have 'choice' in what hospitals we consume (sorry, 'use'), Merseyside NHS hospitals are going to start flaunting their wares in public spaces, in a bid to make you choose Southport General over the Royal Liverpool or whatever. Of course, as with any business, the money spent on advertising will not be available for wages or the actual services. And in hospitals, the services are quite important. Read more >>

09-01-2007 16:16 | 6 comments

Conspiracy Their Arses! Ricky Tomlinson (and Non-Celebrities) Fight Injustice

Of course you know Ricky Tomlinson from his roles in the Royle Family and Brookside. But you may not know he was one of the Shrewsbury pickets imprisoned in the 1970s for 'conspiracy to intimidate' during a building workers dispute. Well now Ricky has donated £1,000 to a campaign for a public inquiry into the blatantly dodgy arrests, trial, and imprisonments. He will also be presenting a TV documentary later this year in a bid to raise awareness. Read more >>

05-01-2007 23:03

Construction Safety Slammed In Liverpool

Outside McDonald’s on Lord Street, the Amicus union launched a campaign against poor safety standards in the construction industry this afternoon. As if to prove their point, Morgan Utilities Ltd were fined £11,000 for a 2005 incident just down the road. Read more >>

02-01-2007 18:11 | 1 comment

Against the repression in Oaxaca, Anti-capitalist class struggle!

For several months the town of Oaxaca, capital of the Mexican State of the same name, has been the center of important struggles which have or suffered repeated attacks by the forces of repression (police, army and paramilitary) with many victims: at the end of November the toll was 22 dead and 34 disappeared.
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01-01-2007 01:12

Lancaster UAF's review of the year - 2006 in a nutshell

We're off for a couple of days (again) so thought we'd leave you with a bit of reading material. :-) Read more >>

18-12-2006 11:33 | 2 comments

T&GWU Negotiates Defeat For Liverpool Cabbies

In another setback for workers on Merseyside, the Transport and General Workers Union has negotiated a defeat for its taxi driving members and taxi users at Liverpool John Lennon Airport. Read more >>

14-12-2006 16:17 | 1 comment

Outrage in Granby

Blog post on the struggle of Toxteth residents to keep hold of their homes - in the Granby Triangle renewal zone. I'm a freelance journalist and spent an evening with people from Cairns Street, who fear a private developer will profit by buying all homes in the area - whether they are down for demolition or a facelift - and selling them back at inflated prices. To my surprise and disappointment, no media outlet was interested.
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13-12-2006 12:13

ASDA - beyond the smiles

Leak reveals Asda’s strategic assault on UK working conditions

Bosses at supermarket giant Asda are planning a series of anti - union and cost cutting schemes at the expense of working conditions and workers’ rights, according to leaked documents obtained by campaign group War on Want. Read more >>

11-12-2006 14:30 | 1 addition

Imagine Cabbies on 'Drive-Slow' at John Lennon Airport

Liverpool cab drivers are taking part in a 'drive-slow' in Speke on Friday, in protest against £7 per day fees demanded by John Lennon Airport. Read more >>

03-12-2006 18:22 | 1 comment

Tug Workers To Block The Docks?

The port of Liverpool could be shut down by a series of tug strikes, bringing back memories of the dockers’ dispute in the 1990s. Workers are angry that they are currently registered in the Channel Islands, and therefore lose their 12.5% National Insurance payments. Read more >>

30-11-2006 19:32 | 1 addition | 1 comment

Merseyside Fire Authority Stirs Up More Trouble

Following the partial defeat of their cuts agenda this summer, Merseyside Fire Authority is trying to get its own back, and weaken the morale of victorious firefighters. Three weeks ago, letters were served to fourteen emergency crew members, calling them to hearings over incidents during the walkout, including one for 'smiling aggressively'. Now a firefighter is in trouble for drinking a cup of tea! Read more >>

30-11-2006 15:54

Report back from Defy-ID gathering in Nottingham

Two members of Liverpool Defy-ID attended the gathering in Nottingham last Saturday,
there were over 50 people there at the SUMAC centre. There were workshops where
the people were broken up into three different groups: Read more >>