UK Workers' Movements Newswire Archive
Felicia Sakwe
17-09-2007 12:06
She is currently detained in Yarl's Wood IRC, with removal directions for next Monday 24th September, this will be the second attempt to remove Felicia.
Two fatal accidents at construction sites this weekend
16-09-2007 08:32
A 20-year-old man has been killed on a construction site on Plymouth, just one day after a similar accident took the life of an 18-year-old in Scotland.Cradley Heath's Women Chainmakers Strike: We all still have nothing to lose
14-09-2007 15:28
Yesterday, Fellow Workers of the West Midlands Branch of the Industrial Workers of the World (I.W.W.) erected a series of twenty placards along Cradley Heath's High Street commemorating Cradley's proud history of working class resistance. Nearly a century ago the Women Chainmakers of Cradley Heath in the Black Country agitated and went on strike to gain better pay and working conditions. With the advent of a new Tescos superstore being built the placards also questioned the interests of big business versus those of the community.
Below is the text of a leaflet which is being distributed at the Women Chainmaker's Festival on Saturday, which amongst other things asks what lessons have we learnt in the 21st Century and whether things really have changed for the better.
High street retailers shamed on sweatshops
14-09-2007 13:29
War on Want's new report with Labour Behind the Label, Let’s Clean Up Fashion 2007, highlights the appalling conditions and stark injustices within the high street fashion industry. UK high street retailers do not pay developing country garment workers a living wage, whilst reaping vast profits and paying spokesmodels and CEOs millions of pounds.Postal workers wildcat in Burslem
13-09-2007 22:49
Anti-City Academy Teachers Take To The Trees
12-09-2007 19:36
Sex work, gender and immigration controls: Moving Gender Workshop
12-09-2007 13:53
Organised by the International Union of Sex Workers, Education Not for Sale Women and others as part of the No Borders camp (19-24 September - see www.noborders.org.uk)Brown gets smooth ride at Trades Union Congress
12-09-2007 07:08
Prior to Gordon Brown’s first appearance as prime minister at the annual conference of the Trades Union Congress, the media was warning that he would face a mauling over the government’s decision to impose below-inflation pay rises on millions of public sector workers.Benefit concert for the Industrial Workers of the World
11-09-2007 22:29
£4 entrance £2 Union concessions. Doors open at 7:30pm
Freedom for the Cuban Five!
11-09-2007 14:39
Durham Working Class bookfair November 3rd 10-5pm
11-09-2007 11:49
North East Working Class BookfairSt Nicholas Church, Market Place, Durham City.
Saturday November 3rd 2007, 10-5pm
Manchester mental health staff strike again
10-09-2007 17:46
Local government unions break ranks over latest offer
10-09-2007 17:43
Socialist Presidential Candidates at America’s Crossroads
10-09-2007 14:08
Today Americans are faced with a broad range of complex issues not seen since the American Civil War; a war that divided America and created a clash of ideologies. Now, more than 140 years since the end of Civil War, Americans are faced with greater challenges and 11 socialist presidential candidates with Socialist Party USA and Peace and Freedom Party believe a new direction for the nation is critical.J. A and N - Removal directions set for Thursday
10-09-2007 13:30
[This article has been amended to remove identifying details]J, a young woman from Uganda, is a torture and rape victim who was accepted by the Immigration Appellate Authority as a 'believable witness'. Her appeal was refused in 2005. Even though it was accepted that she was suspected of being an LRA (Lord's Resistance Army) member and was a torture and rape victim, it was claimed by the Home Office that she would not be in danger of persecution if she was returned to another part of Uganda, such as Kampala.
Fargate Speaker - KICK TESCO OUT OF CROOKES!!
09-09-2007 09:50
fargatespeaker@googlemail.com
Solidarity Campaign Hosts Revolutionary Speakers from Africa
08-09-2007 20:16
Britain: Government and media rail against “selfish” strikes
08-09-2007 20:07
A number of industrial disputes in recent weeks have provided an invaluable insight into the tense state of class relations in Britain.Glasgow Employers Getting Away With Murder?
08-09-2007 12:55
Protest at Selly Oak Campus of the University of Birmingham
07-09-2007 16:25
Trade-union members in Birmingham, at 1 p.m. on Monday, September 10th, will protest in support of strikers at the University of Minnesota in the U.S. This will be a gesture of global solidarity in a difficult strike!