UK Workers' Movements Newswire Archive
Electricians return their new contracts Glasgow Friday 6th 10am
03-01-2012 22:16
From Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/groups/264935423529258/ Sparks Against de-skilling and 35% Pay Cuts
Jeremy Clarkson insults Asians
02-01-2012 16:18
Which way forward for the 99%? General Strike 1st May 2012!
01-01-2012 12:30
To show our power, on May 1st, 2012, we will be organizing for such a mass participatory and bold collective action: a national general strike, mass boycott, student strike/ walk-out and mass day of action. We will be organizing within our unions- or informal workplace organizations where there’s no union or the union isn’t supportive- to hold a one-day general strike. Where a strike is not possible, we will be organizing people to call in sick, or take a personal day, as part of a coordinated “sick-out”. Those who are students will be walking-out of their schools (or not showing up in the first place). In the community, we will be holding a mass boycott and refusing to make any purchase on that day.
We, the 99%, will build our power and show our power until we've occupied our workplaces, our communities, our schools, our lives, our world... until we've occupied everything!
The managed decline of Liverpool
31-12-2011 20:34
Workplace death survey results published
30-12-2011 13:50
KENT HAS ONE OF THE WORST WORKPLACE DEATHS RECORDS SAYS UNION-UCATT- AS UK SURVEY PUBLISHEDLongshore Workers, Truckers: Shut the Ports, Coast to Coast!
30-12-2011 01:23
Ports up and down the West Coast were blockaded, from Seattle to San Diego. Despite a barrage of hostile propaganda in the media, opposition from union bureaucrats and heavy police repression in some places, overall the blockade was successful – this time. The blockade was called in solidarity with longshore workers fighting a union-busting assault in Longview, Washington and with port truckers seeking union recognition in the ports of Los Angeles/Long Beach. This support should have been greeted. Instead, the union bureaucracy attacked the port blockade, although longshore workers respected the picket lines. But now the class war on the West Coast docks is coming to a head, and it can’t be waged from the outside. Bay Area labor has called for a caravan to Longview. The goal should be a real occupation of the terminal by the workers to prevent the loading of the scab cargo. Longshore militants have called on the longshore unions to shut down every port on the West Coast, and the East and Gulf Coasts, to smash EGT’s union-busting. Can it be done? Yes, but only though sharp struggle against the pro-capitalist labor bureaucracy.Leicestershire Rank and File Meeting - further details
24-12-2011 10:56
Planning meeting to organise a Leicestershire rank and file conferenceNo sell outs - link the strikes!
23-12-2011 12:06
January rank and file planning meeting in LeicesterAll UK Anti-Austerity Campaigns Proven RIght!!
20-12-2011 23:21
An investigation by the Public Accounts Committee has calculated there is £25 BILLION in outstanding corporate tax, which is bigger than the UK budget deficit for 2002. This report vindicates UK Uncut, Occupy groups and anti-austerity protests, and in terms of the movement breaking-out of its cultural ghetto and linking with mass culture, the most important lesson for radicals is that there is outrage about this "from across the political spectrum", with even the right-wing Daily Telegraph admitting that "Conservatives should support left-wing campaign groups when they’re in the right".....Open Letter To Occupy London from 2 Working Class Old Buggers
20-12-2011 19:14
A Working Class Alternative to Public Service Pension Cuts
20-12-2011 18:00
University of Birmingham threatens BUCU right to strike
20-12-2011 12:48
Following the November 30 strike, BUCU were sent a confidential document by UoB HR which threatens BUCU through claims that members behaved unlawfully and/or unreasonably during the picketing on 30th November.Swindon Anarchists target tax dodgers
19-12-2011 09:05
Will Prentis try and snatch defeat from the jaws of victory?
17-12-2011 02:00
In all probability, yes...50 Dead & 500 wounded by riot police in Kazakhstan
16-12-2011 10:50
Today, at Kazakhstan’s independence day, more than 3000 people assembled peacefully in Zhanaozen, to promote the demands of the oil workers who have been on strike since May. Police and special forces attacked the meeting and opened fire on the strikers and their families.Support the Sparks – Glasgow, Sat. Dec.17th 10am
15-12-2011 20:04
Support the Sparks – protest against the lack of media coverage – BBC Scotland, Pacific Quay, Glasgow, Saturday 17th December, 10am-1pmThe Public Sector workers’ Strike on November 30
14-12-2011 21:29
On November 30th an estimated 2 million public sector workers went on strike in Great Britain, making it the biggest protest since the General Strike in 1926. Several of the big public sector unions called out its members currently in receipt of a public sector pension scheme to strike against the hugeSicko Tory MP in Nazi stunt
12-12-2011 00:00
The Unilever Strike and the Case for Classwide Solidarity
09-12-2011 17:41
A Rolling Festive Phone-in to Atos 'Healthcare'
09-12-2011 15:22
