UK Workers' Movements Newswire Archive
Pittsburgh IWW Strikes again at Starbucks’ Anti-Union Practices
20-12-2006 14:21
Smash the royal wedding
19-12-2006 11:58
Movement Against the Monarch (MAM) is preparing their glad rags for the street party of the centuary, a right royal knees up on the event of the wedding of Prince William and his college shag Kate Middleton. With the eyes media turning on this grand royal distraction it is the perfect time to agitate people on the iisue of abolishing these parasites once and for all.T&GWU Negotiates Defeat For Liverpool Cabbies
18-12-2006 11:33
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.Fear not God, Fear the X-tians who take away the young people's house.
14-12-2006 01:07
Mobilisation video:
http://video.indymedia.org/en/2006/12/633.shtml Help save the house which for more than a hundred years has been instrumental in political organising on the left. From the Youth House to the Father's House - need we say more?
Camden council gets ready to cut a record number of jobs and services
13-12-2006 20:53
Camden Council is about to launch the most sweeping cuts to services and jobs since the early Thatcher days - even though it received one of the biggest grants from govt for a London Council this year. Thousands of the borough's most vulnerable people will lose access to the services that they need, as money is paid to consultants and privatisers.ASDA - beyond the smiles
13-12-2006 12:13
Leak reveals Asda’s strategic assault on UK working conditionsBosses 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.
Philippines: Charter Change is Arroyo's Cover-up
12-12-2006 23:57
How New Labour is creating slave labour
11-12-2006 16:57
Whatever the merits of Tony Blair's recent retrospective apology for Britain's leading role in the slave trade it would be less hypocritical if his government was not developing a modern system of slavery and the reintroduction of sweated labour through the reshaping of immigration controls.Imagine Cabbies on 'Drive-Slow' at John Lennon Airport
11-12-2006 14:30
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.Police promise pow-wows
10-12-2006 22:41
Following increasingly outrageous treatment by police, the National Union Of Journalists have been raising their concerns. The following article was published in the Freelance....Vision of future is boot stamping on face
09-12-2006 14:52
From the film 1984 - humans are the expendable means to maintaining control. War is the means of controlling the economy. Resistance is real.Justice for Cleaners: Stop Press. Victory number 2, events cancelled.
08-12-2006 18:22
The Fast for Justice by cleaners planned for next week has been cancelled due to a premature victory. Sounds like a pretty good reason!Full article | 1 addition | 1 comment
Leeds bus strikes over pensions to go ahead
08-12-2006 13:05
Bus drivers at First Leeds will strike in protest at attempts to devalue their hard earned pensions. One thousand drivers, all members of the Transport and General Workers Union, will walk out on 11th, 23rd and 24th December when no buses are expected to run so hitting the lucrative Christmas shopping and leisure period.Full article | 1 addition | 6 comments
Cleaners Fast for Justice outside Royal Bank of Scotland. Call for Support
07-12-2006 13:33
Whistleblower Tortured by New South Wales Government Medical Office
07-12-2006 09:38
Protest against sacking of JJB Sports rep!
06-12-2006 19:03
Following a successful strike by workers at JJB Sport's warehouse in Wigan, the company is trying to sack GMB rep Chris Riley. The No Sweat campaign is organising a protest against this and in solidarity with Chris this Sunday in Shepherd's Bush.The APPO Lives
05-12-2006 10:45
Communiqué from Somewhere in the State of Oaxaca, from the State Council of the Popular Peoples’ Assembly of OaxacaStarbucks CEO in London Wed 6th Dec!
04-12-2006 10:30
Bob Crow, UK RMT Gen Sec. Speaks in SF At International Transport Workers Conf
04-12-2006 07:22
UK RMT Gen Secretary recently visited San Francisco and spoke at a conference on international labor solidarity for transportation workers.