Liverpool Workers' Movements Newswire Archive

27-03-2007 21:29 | 5 comments

Justice for the Shrewsbury Pickets Campaign Update

Here is the March 2007 update from Justice For Shrewsbury Pickets, campaigning for an inquiry into the 1972 imprisonment of Ricky Tomlinson and Des Warren, as described on tonight's BBC documentary with Tomlinson. Read more >>

06-03-2007 11:28

International Women's Day in Liverpool

We are going to have a protest outside George (Asda's clothing line) in Liverpool City Centre on Thursday for International Women's Day - since its mainly women workers who produce the cheap clothes for ASDA, Tesco & Primark. We'll meet at 4.30 outside George (or 4pm at the basement) and stay until around 6.30 (or closing time, if that is sooner). Read more >>

04-03-2007 10:29

Demo against the privatization of the NHS, in Preston

Against profiteering in the health service. Read more >>

26-02-2007 20:09 | 2 comments

NHS Under Attack

On the Keep Our NHS Public demo in Liverpool on Thursday, 22nd February, anarchists handed out a bulletin showing an anarchist perspective on the NHS attacks. The text is below, or you can print-up the prettier version with graphics and photos and stuff. Get the word out, and come to the founding meeting of the Merseyside Anarchist Group on Thursday 1st March, in the basement by News From Nowhere, from 7.30pm. Read more >>

24-02-2007 22:32

Save the NHS! Organise for Resistance!

About 200 people marched from the Royal Liverpool Hospital in Prescot Street to the William Brown Street fountain on Thursday 22nd February, showing their anger at government plans for the National Health Service. Read more >>

15-02-2007 16:24 | 3 comments

prince charles visiting toxteth town hall

Royalty/Charlie boy visiting Toxteth Town Hall in April 2007
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11-02-2007 08:22

Families Against Corporate Killers in Liverpool

A group of about twenty people attended a meeting about the Families Against Corporate Killers (FACK) campaign on Thursday, 8th February, at the Liverpool John Moores University building on Clarence Street.
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11-02-2007 00:54 | 2 comments

Torchlit March for NHS 22 February Liverpool

Help us fight for our Health Service
Thursday 22nd February
Assemble 5:30 pm Royal Liverpool University Hospital
Torchlit march to St. George's Plateau

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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 >>

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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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 >>

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 >>