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UK Workers' Movements Newswire Archive

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Pittsburgh IWW Strikes again at Starbucks’ Anti-Union Practices

20-12-2006 14:21

"We workers can continue to grovel for these low-wage jobs, or we can just wring our hands in despair, or we can stand up and demand better treatment from these moneymaking corporations. We all know what Starbucks wants its so-called “partners” to do. It’s no mystery why Starbucks is firing workers for organizing, trying to get them to think that a union is unnecessary, and keeping a close eye on those of us who want an independent voice at work.” -- IWW Starbucks Union member

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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.

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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.

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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?

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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.

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ASDA - beyond the smiles

13-12-2006 12:13

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.

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Philippines: Charter Change is Arroyo's Cover-up

12-12-2006 23:57

AKBAYAN (Citizens Action Party) today stepped up efforts to derail attempts at the House of Representatives to initiate Charter Change (Cha Cha), calling the move as nothing more than an attempt to cover up the seething political crisis hounding Gloria Macapagal Arroyo (GMA).

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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.

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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.

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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....

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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.

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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!

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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.

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Cleaners Fast for Justice outside Royal Bank of Scotland. Call for Support

07-12-2006 13:33

Starting Monday 11th Dec, a group of cleaners from the TGWU Justice for Cleaners campaign will be spending several days without food, sitting outside the headquarters of one of UK's richest banks, demanding a fair deal.

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Whistleblower Tortured by New South Wales Government Medical Office

07-12-2006 09:38

Sydney public service dissidents have been fighting human rights abuses perpetrated at the government medical office for years. HealthQuest was allegedly cleaned up. but this year a worker who has made protected disclosures about HealthQuest in the past suffered reprisals when he was forced to attend HealthQuest for a fitness for part time work assessment. I copied this before the Medical Defence Association and government solicitors forced its removal from Sydney Indy.

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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.

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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 Oaxaca

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Starbucks CEO in London Wed 6th Dec!

04-12-2006 10:30

Starbucks is responsible for various attacks on people and the planet. in its most recent guise, it is picking on its workers who are fighting against the giant to unionise their workplaces with the IWW. the CEO of Starbucks is talking at the NASDAQ conference on Wednesday, and London IWW is calling for a demo against his union-busting ways!

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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.