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SY Bus Strike Photos

26-07-2004 11:05

Unity is Strength
The South Yorkshire bus strike is solid in their fight for better pay, here are some photos from the picket line on Monday (26th July 2004) at Olive Grove depot in Sheffield.

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Sheffield Bus Strike, to all drivers, stop and think...

23-07-2004 19:23

Current sheffield first bus strike, the reality for customers.

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Union Officers Strike!

03-07-2004 22:23

Elected Part time officers of Thames Valley University Students' Union have gon on strike after a yearlong battle for pay

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Dublin Council of Trade Unions scrap their May Day March

14-04-2004 19:43

Repost of my original article on IMC Ireland. Some brief notes re article below. The ATGWU is the Irish Regional Section of the TGWU in Britain. The DCTU are a very similar grouping to say the likes of say the London Trades Council. The IWU are a new Anti-partnership Trade Union in Ireland who had their 1ST Conference a couple of weeks ago.

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1984/5 Miners Strike - Burning Issues, play by Banner Theatre on Merseyside

22-03-2004 14:58

Early morning picket, Celynen South Colliery - 6 November 1984.
Burning Issues
A new touring production to mark the twentieth anniversary
of the 1984/5 Miners Strike.

Thursday, March 25: Citadel Arts Centre, St Helens: 8.00pm
For more details ring 01744 735436

Friday, March 26: The Picket, Hardman Street, Liverpool: 8.00pm
(for the National Union of Journalists annual conference)

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"We are women, we are strong" - Miners Strike 20th Anniversary Events

09-03-2004 10:33

The strike took place between March 1984 and March 1985, when Margaret Thatcher was Prime Minister and the Tories were in power.

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AUT strike on Wednesday

23-02-2004 10:20

The association of university teachers (the union of accademic or non academic university staff) is going to strike this week. The dispute relates to pay cuts and the breakdown of the national salary negotiations.

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Civil Servants Strike for Fair Pay for All

30-01-2004 09:55

Fair Pay For All
Government offices across the country were picketed for a second day today in a dispute over low pay.

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Basra Electricity Workers Announce Strike Action - Iraq report

09-01-2004 18:28

Electricity plant and station workers in Occupied Basra fight back against Bremer's slave-wage scale order. Social resistance to the Occupation mounting as workers realise and reclaim their power...

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strike spotting in the nw

02-12-2003 19:27

summary of strikes in the nw of the last weeks... starting point for an autonomous circulation of class struggles reports...

Strike Watch UK 18/11/03 – 28/11/03

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TOTAL GENERAL STRIKE IN LA PAZ AND EL ALTO, EVERYONE CONDEMN THE MASSACRE.

14-10-2003 22:57

Tens truce on midday, Tuesday, October 14 after fifty four dead and hundreds of wounded in last three days of confrontations in Bolivia.

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Trade Union delegation to Iraq. Visit to Oil refinary.

14-10-2003 15:38

American guard
Final stop on our journey around Baghdad was to the Oil refinary to meet the recently unionised workers.
Pics:Guy Smallman

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Trade Union delegation to Iraq. Visit to rail workers

14-10-2003 15:00

Train maintanance
Alex Gordon is a national executive member of the RMT
Pics:Guy Smallman

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Oxford Postal Workers On Strike

25-09-2003 10:21

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Oxford postal workers voted for continued strike action in the face of management's attempts to break their union, the CWU.

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Postie strike off - What does this mean?

19-09-2003 00:28

Last week postal workers, members of the CWU, voted by the narrowest majority against national action against Royal Mail’s plan to slash 30,000 jobs in the next nine months. The result took everyone by surprise. Union officials had been confident of a substantial yes vote. It didn’t materialise...

This result is a set back for the left. Anarchists had welcomed the recent upsurge in industrial militancy detecting willingness amongst workers to stand up to bosses. Postal workers have a good record of industrial militancy so it is worth considering what went wrong.

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350 strike at Hinkley Point Nuclear Power Station

09-09-2003 18:20

350 workers walked out on strike at Hinkley 'B' last week after a serious accident to a contractor.

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Support the Firemen

03-11-2002 20:03

Defeat Thatcher's Union busting legislation that Blair relies on.

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Milano-Glasgow Mc Strike!!!

04-10-2002 14:36

McDonalds workers, across the UK, Continental Europe,Russia, North America and Australasia, will take direct action against our employers on October 16th.

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General Strike in Spain

20-06-2002 14:24

A very successful general strike has taken place in the Spanish State on Thursday, June 20th. One day before, a general strike brought the Basque country to a standstill. Watch this space for updates.

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Hackney Council Workers Strike on MayDay

01-05-2001 09:18

Thousends of Council workers on strike in Hackney as part of Dispute over cuts in wages and services