Liverpool Workers' Movements Newswire Archive

19-09-2007 22:32

Return Beatrice to Liverpool

Beatrice who was living in Liverpool was 'removed' to Cameroon on 28th August after being held in Yarls Wood detention camp for many weeks. Beatrice resisted being forced onto the plane but she has told us that she was very badly beaten and kicked by her two 'escorts'. Her condition was so bad that the Cameroonian authorities refused to acccept someone who was in such a bad state into their country and put her on a plane the same night on a flight back to the UK. She remains in Yarls Wood and has had her mobile taken from her and she is very unhappy with her legal representatives.

Leafleting at St Lukes at the top of Bold Street on Saturday 22nd September 1.30 - 2.30 for Beatrice and others, as sadly Beatrice's case is not exceptional, many others suffer from these racist immigration controls. Read more >>

01-09-2007 15:05 | 4 comments

Prison officers in mass unlawful strike

Some 20,000 prison officers in England and Wales took illegal unofficial action on Wednesday 29 August against Gordon Brown’s public sector wage cuts and the disastrous overcrowding in prisons. Read more >>

29-08-2007 20:02 | 7 comments

Screw The Law!

For obvious reasons to do with their chosen occupation, prison officers aren't exactly popular amongst radical activists. Many of us have been on the receiving end of their 'justice', or know people who have, or perhaps fear that we will in the future. All this is understandable and to be expected. Read more >>

14-08-2007 15:33

Liverpool NHS Meeting

Merseyside Keep Our NHS Public Campaign meets this Wednesday (15 August)
at 7pm at The Peoples Centre, Mount Pleasant, Liverpool. Read more >>

05-08-2007 15:39

Royal Mail wildcats spread to north of England

The wildcat strikes at Royal Mail which began in Glasgow, spread across Scotland, and ended today also reached Newcastle, Liverpool and Chester on Thursday. And Hartlepool on Friday. Read more >>

04-08-2007 18:12

Solidarity On Birkenhead Posties Picket Line

On Thursday, 02.08.07 along with other posties throughout the country Birkenhead sorting office mounted a picket some 20 strong from 05.30 to 09.00. At approx 07.30 a lorry full of mail from the Chester hub came to deliver.(this would mean that mail would be waiting to be sorted from 5.30 the next day) After consultation with the picket and to the furious dismay of a manager the driver turned his truck around, unloaded back to the hub at Chester. Read more >>

04-08-2007 17:22 | 2 comments

Polish Posties Show Solidarity In Liverpool

For some weeks we have had Polish casual workers in Liverpool m/c, the mail centre manager has been trying to beat us over the head with them, threatening to train them to operate the machines and such, if we go on strike.
Read more >>

30-07-2007 20:39 | 3 comments

What's happened to Liverpool?

The fear is palpable. Read more >>

22-07-2007 17:07

Liverpool C.W.U. March and Rally.

Around 1,000 people turned up for a march and rally in central Liverpool this afternoon. The constant rain did not dampen the enthusiasm of the demonstrators and there was a good deal of support from the general public as the march passed close to the main shopping area. Read more >>

17-07-2007 16:25

Postal Workers To Rally In Liverpool

North West Regional March & Rally
Liverpool
Saturday 21st July 2007 Read more >>

15-06-2007 17:29 | 1 comment

Liverpool Council Makes 150 Care Workers Redundant

LIVERPOOL City Council is to make 150 care workers redundant to help pay for Capital of Culture. Read more >>

09-06-2007 18:27

'Liverpool Care Slaves' To Strike?

Liverpool home care workers are considering strike action over a new 'zero hour' contract drawn up by the city council, which will cut their wages by up to 30%! Read more >>

28-05-2007 16:17 | 1 comment

Belfast 1907 General Strike Commemoration in Liverpool

100th Anniversary Commemoration
Saturday June 2nd 2007, Liverpool

Assemble 12.30pm Combermere Street, off Park Road, Liverpool 8.
March to City Centre. March led by James Larkin RFB.
Afternoon function in the Casa Bar, Hope Street Read more >>

04-05-2007 16:46

Mayday 08

A small subversion of the Liverpool 08 trademark Read more >>

02-05-2007 19:43 | 3 comments

Time to plan for Mayday 2008 in Liverpool, UK.

This is a call out to anarchists, and fellow travellers, nationwide and internationally.

2008 is the year Liverpool welcomes people worldwide to our city for The European City Of Culture 'celebrations'. That means you! Read more >>

02-05-2007 14:52 | 5 comments

'Liverpool Care Slaves' Face Pay Cut

I am a care worker in Liverpool.
I work hard looking after the elderly people I care for. We all do.
The council are going to cut my wages by almost 30% in July for me to do the same job as I am doing now. Read more >>

01-05-2007 19:22 | 1 comment

May Day Picket of Liverpool Army Recruitment

After turning away from the lure of warm beer and a cover of John Lennon's Imagine at the official Merseyside TUC rally, ten activists from the Liverpool Social Forum picketed the Army recruitment office on James Street, to try and stop young scousers fighting and possibly dying for oil in the Middle East. Read more >>

01-05-2007 17:35 | 1 addition | 5 comments

Low-Key May Day March and Rally in Liverpool

About eight hundred people - including many from the striking Public and Commercial Services union - marched through Liverpool city centre this afternoon, in an event organised by Merseyside TUC. Read more >>

21-04-2007 18:59 | 1 comment

Merseyside May Day March and Rally

Save our public services!

Say no to racism! Read more >>

13-04-2007 12:27

Support Blood Service workers! - IWW leaflet

Here's the link for a leaflet from the IWW in support of NBS staff in dispute with management over service cuts + 600 looming job losses. Read more >>