UK Indymedia - UK Workers' Movements Newswire Archive

Supporting Postal Strikes

06-11-2009 14:04

Demonstrations outside agencies that were hiring scab workers to break the postal workers strikes.

GMB BRIGHTON REFUSE STRIKE IS ON

06-11-2009 13:50

THE GMB HAS CONFIRMED THAT THE BRIGHTON REFUSE STRIKE WILL START FROM 6AM ON MONDAY AT UPPER HOLLINGDEAN ROAD, BRIGHTON, BN1 7GA.

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The Red Bristolian

05-11-2009 16:39

New Bristol Leftist Blog

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8 UK universities boycott Fruit of the Loom in solidarity with workers

04-11-2009 19:41

8 UK Universities have boycotted Fruit of the Loom in solidarity with Honduran workers whose factory was closed to bust the union.

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Three dead in garment workers' clashes - unions promised new role

04-11-2009 12:00

The latest clashes in the highly charged arena of the Bangladeshi garment industry...

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First Buses – The Other Strike

03-11-2009 10:41

While all of the media attention was focused on the ongoing postal dispute, another group of workers were taking on their bosses in Greater Manchester this Monday. Over 800 Drivers for the First Bus Group based at depots in Bury, Bolton and Wigan joined thousands across the country who took strike action over an imposed pay freeze.

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Workers' Fightback: posties update, Ford workers reject deal, migrants fight

02-11-2009 18:25

We support... rank and file workers' struggles against the chaotic profit system!

We believe... workers know how to run our workplaces far better than business people, the government, or trade union leaders!

We aim for... workers' control over our own jobs and our own lives!

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4000+ Migrant workers strike and occupy in Paris

02-11-2009 00:59

The strike by migrant workers in Paris demanding regularisation has now spread to over forty workplaces, and as it heads into its fourth week it now involves some 4,200 strikers. The latest headline-catching turn in the dispute has been the occupation of part of the French capital’s Pompidou arts centre by restaurant staff.

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Support the posties strike!

01-11-2009 18:18

As you will probably know the postal workers have been taking industrial action to save their jobs, pensions and the postal service itself. Cambridge anarchists have been lucky enough to have the opportunity to support our fellow workers in their struggle.

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Notts IWW members leaflet local Job Centre in solidarity with postal workers

31-10-2009 00:25

On Wednesday morning, 28th October 2009, members of the Nottingham & Notts General Membership Branch of the Industrial Workers of the World (Notts IWW) took to the streets with a leaflet written to ask Job Centre users/benefits claimants and workers at Station Street Job Centre Plus not to cooperate with the Royal Mail's attempt to recruit 30,000 temporary posties to try and break the ongoing postal workers strike. Although Royal Mail often starts to recruit for Christmas around this time of year, the target of 30,000 is many more than the usual.

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Another night on the Royal Mail picketline...

30-10-2009 15:51

Another night on the picketline...

Another week of broken promises and recriminations over the negotiating table for the UK postal service and it's workers on the frontline.

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Bath Bomb #26 Special Edition Out Now

30-10-2009 00:44

Bumper edition out now, hot on the heels of the postal strike, local council proposed job cuts, threatened local wildlife, and more

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Occupations in Austria for Free Education are going strong and spreading.

28-10-2009 16:22

Austrian Occupations Spreading

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Altcross Foot Path - Keep It Open!

27-10-2009 03:03

In Croxteth there is a decades old and well used path linking Altcross road to Oak Lane North, linking residential areas to Croxteth park, and enjoyed by walkers, cyclists, dog walkers and even a significant number of people flying birds in the woods.

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Workers' Fightback: Posties Vs Govt, No To Rubbish Deals, Greece Burns Again

25-10-2009 19:31

We support... rank and file workers' struggles against the chaotic profit system!

We believe... workers know how to run our workplaces far better than business people, the government, or trade union leaders!

We aim for... workers' control over our own jobs and our own lives!

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Pictures of Pedal Powered Picketline (22-10-2009)

24-10-2009 01:02

On a cold Thursday night in the twenty first century, I found myself a part of a situation that my parents would have remembered from their own youthful years back in the 1970s - on a picket line, with the guts of an old Washing Machine providing the heat, in the absence of Brazier as was used back in the day.

This time it was because postal workers, in disgust at the way their management and the government has been treating them decided to walk out en masse from the depot on the Clifton Road Industrial Estate for two days.

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New Mayday magazine with Postal Worker theme

24-10-2009 00:28

Here is the latest front cover of Mayday magazine, its fab:) Launched at the Anarchist bookfair later today.

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Posties on Strike!

23-10-2009 23:04

The first coverage of the postal workers strike from Manchester.

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New Deal is bad for your health

23-10-2009 15:12

Bastards at CDG and Job centre destroyed my health!

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Do anarchists exist in the class struggle?

23-10-2009 12:39

Article published in the last edition of Freedom newspaper. Originally titled 'The Struggle is one and the same' it asks the question is the return of workplace militancy a cue for anarchists to engage more fruitfully with the working class?