Liverpool Workers' Movements Newswire Archive

07-11-2007 20:07

Examining the 2007 Royal Mail dispute

Rob Ray explains the introduction of competition to the postal service, and why it will be the government, not postal workers, who the public have to thank for the loss of cheap post and the universal service. Read more >>

07-11-2007 01:55

Reel News video: Postal Workers Dispute - Reject the Deal!

21 minute video showing the recent official and unofficial strike action in the postal workers dispute. Read more >>

26-10-2007 14:56 | 1 comment

NHS whistleblower Stands Up for Journalism

A nurse victimised for her trade union activity joins journalists for a day of protest. Read more >>

23-10-2007 16:15 | 2 comments

SWP collaborates in union’s betrayal of postal strikes

On October 17, the web site of Britain’s Socialist Workers Party published the first detailed depiction of what was then only a proposed management offer to settle the ongoing post dispute. It was published as the response “from Socialist Worker supporters in the Royal Mail” and was only available online, as it came out after the party’s newspaper had gone to press. Read more >>

23-10-2007 16:14

Oppose efforts by Communication Workers Union to end postal strike

The Communication Workers Union executive has endorsed a rotten deal with the Royal mail to bring an end to the postal workers’ dispute. Read more >>

22-10-2007 07:14

Sussex students pass motion in support of posties

The University of Sussex Students' Union just passed a motion of support for the strike, with reference to scab student labour in Liverpool, and with the intention of increasing student awareness about union organising. A letter is also being written to be sent to the Liverpool students' unions informing them about this and asking them to take some sort of action. Read more >>

20-10-2007 15:52

Rolls Royce to close Merseyside plant

Workers at the Rolls Royce plant in Netherton today claimed the company had given them notice to close the factory with the loss of 220 jobs. Read more >>

18-10-2007 15:43 | 2 comments

Reject the deal - restart the strikes

Sell out deal is a stab in the back for striking postal workers and threatens to derail the strike - for a rank and file conference of postal workers to campaign for a no vote and fight to restart the strikes! Read more >>

17-10-2007 11:56 | 1 comment

Standing up for the right to know

A protest in the North West against greedy media bosses who don't care about journalism. Read more >>

17-10-2007 08:38 | 6 comments

Students in Liverpool cross Royal Mail Picket Lines

A temp agency in Liverpool has been employing 300 students to sort the

mail after workers walked out in wildcat strikes. The students have been

picked up in the town centre and driven through picket lines in Royal

Mail vans. Read more >>

15-10-2007 16:46 | 1 comment

Postal union agrees to sell-out deal with Royal Mail

By means of legal threats and with the connivance of the trade union bureaucracy, Royal Mail hopes to end the postal dispute and achieve its aim of overturning working conditions and pension rights, and eliminate tens of thousands of jobs. Read more >>

14-10-2007 19:09

Colombia (and Latin America) Solidarity

MONDAY 22 OCT, 7PM. MCR. UNIVERSITY SU, room MR1
HEAR: ANDY HIGGINBOTTOM secretary Colombia Solidarity Campaign
WATCH: MEMORIA DE SAQUEO, extacts from the Argentinian film
DISCUSS: developing a local Latin America solidarity network Read more >>

12-10-2007 20:04

Demands for government intervention aimed at strangling post dispute

As we go to press, talks are under way between Royal Mail and the Communication Workers Union (CWU), as unofficial action that began at postal sorting depots in London, Glasgow and Liverpool Wednesday spread to several other offices by Thursday morning. Read more >>

11-10-2007 15:57 | 1 comment

Post workers face political struggle against Royal Mail/Labour government

Unofficial strike action broke out at several postal sorting offices across the UK early Wednesday morning in response to deliberate provocations by Royal Mail. Read more >>

10-10-2007 16:45

Merseyside Posties Wildcat

Though the latest round of official strikes sanctioned by the Communication Workers Union came to an end at 03:00 this morning, many postal workers are defying their leaders, and are staying out. Read more >>

05-10-2007 20:47

Good to talk: lets debate Britannia

The future of the United Kingdom needs to be debated, beyond the parliamentary talk of a possible “snap general election” this autumn, with national issues including the direction of British foreign policy, Read more >>

30-09-2007 22:58 | 2 comments

Public meeting on Che Guevara

Film showing and discussion Read more >>

21-09-2007 16:35

Introduction to Anarchism in Liverpool

Yet another fantastic night at Next To Nowhere on Thursday, as twenty-five people attended an 'Introduction to Anarchism' discussion. Read more >>

20-09-2007 15:47

Another Construction Collapse in Capital of Culture City

As the city of Liverpool is frantically prepared for the Capital of Culture celebrations, workplace safety is bound to come a poor second to profit margins. This year has already seen a three fatalities on Merseyside construction sites, and though no-one has been killed in this latest incident, it looks very likely there will be more deaths before 1st January. Read more >>

20-09-2007 09:55

C.U.T.S ( Communal Use Textile Studio), Liverpool.

A Newly-opened community resource for creative textile recycling in Central Liverpool, with sewing studio and screen-printing facilities. Details of up-coming workshops for October and November 2007. Read more >>