UK Workers' Movements Newswire Archive
Protest this Tuesday - Tell Iraqi Oil Minister 'Stop Attacking Trade Unionists'
12-06-2008 21:41
Oil Minister Hussein Shahristani is in the UK to speak at nuclear disarmament conference at LSE. Shahristani was one of the key backers of the Iraq invasion, insisting Iraq had WMD and working closely and publically with then foreign secretary Jack Straw on developing the case for war. Come and have a go at him this tuesday!!NHS Unite members reject pay offer
12-06-2008 21:25
Report from the London Social Forum
12-06-2008 17:47
A discussion about the neoiberal transformations of London and New York and campaigns to defend local markets in London which took place on Monday 9th June in Central LondonUS,Russian or Chinese military EMF kills dolphins
12-06-2008 13:53
Many smaller fish etc just die & float to the bottom, we are probably only seeing just the surface of this "hitech" assault on nature."In a paper published in Nature magazine, scientists from a British Government-funded research programme show the first evidence of gas bubbles and associated tissue trauma in six dolphins, a porpoise and a beaked whale recovered from British waters."
Sanctuary for Jonathan Kazembe
12-06-2008 09:32
65 hours a week ?!? not likely..
11-06-2008 18:15
Britain has secured a permanent right to opt out from the EU’s mandatory 48-hour working weekFull article | 1 addition | 1 comment
Fujitsu Strike Birmingham: You can have your Logo but hands off our jobs!
10-06-2008 12:16
Whats Ken Clarke MP&"democratic representative doing at private Bilderberg 2008?
07-06-2008 16:42
What is Kenneth Clarke MP for Rushcliffe borough doing currently at the Bilderberg AGM in Virginia? ex British Ameritcan Tobacco executive.More powerful than G8& Held in private & until recently top secrecy Bilderberg& Trilateral meetings are steered by David Rockefeller, Henry Kissinger& Brezezinski.He is accomponied from UK by Lord John Kerr. Member, House of Lords; Deputy Chairman Royal Dutch Shell plc. Bilderberger's arent nazis, most need psychiatric monitoring& are dangerous psychopath'sIts time to stop the war& Reclaim our Planet from them crazy bilderballs,
nows the time, virginians take to the streets & protest!
Sierra Leone Movement Under Attack!
06-06-2008 19:20
Dick Cheney Made Millions with Saddam Hussein
05-06-2008 16:10
This story was never printed in the USAStatement from Iraqi Oil Workers support committee on Union repression
05-06-2008 10:18
Iraqi Federation of Oil Unions President Hassan Jumaa Awad called for support in response to the transfer of eight union activists by the Iraqi Oil Minister.The eight executive committee members have been told they must leave their homes and community networks in Basra and move to Al-Dora, one of the most violence ridden with neighbourhoods of Baghdad. The leadership of the IFOU has branded the move a 'human rights crime' Senior managers from the Southern Oil Company have also been transferred.
Labour prepares ground for privatisation of postal service
04-06-2008 21:02
A supposedly independent inquiry set up by the Labour government, under the chairmanship of Richard Hooper, is preparing the privatisation of the Royal Mail postal service."Burn the Bosses, Not the Planet" - Workshop, Newcastle, 7 June 08
03-06-2008 20:00
Ecology and ClassSheffield Anarchist Federation, a collective of class struggle anarchists affiliated to the national Anarchist Federation, facilitate a free and open debate on climate change, class and capitalism, 7 June at Newcastle Community Green Festival, Newcastle upon Tyne.
What to do about corporate globalization?
03-06-2008 15:11
We have protested. We have marched. We have surrounded international elitist meetings with our numbers.Urgent: from Iraqi oil union - Govt transfer of 8 workers 'a human rights crime'
02-06-2008 21:10
Iraqi Federation of Oil Unions leader Hassan Jumaa Awad has sent the following urgent email to supporters. He urges action in response to the oil minister transfering union activists from Basra to Baghdad - a 'human rights crime' and an escalation of repression against the union at a time when the controversial oil law is still being pushed in order to privatise Iraq's oil. The IFOU are on the forefront of resistance to this and the non-armed resistance to the occupation. Please email the Iraqi embassy in the UK in protest....North West Aerosols Ltd On Trial For Killing Worker
02-06-2008 20:19
The Aintree-based company North West Aerosols Ltd was put on trial today at Liverpool Crown Court. The company is charged with two breaches of the Health and Safety At Work Act, after an accident at the factory on 13th December 2005, when one of their workers, Chris Knoop, was burned to death. His co-workers Kevin Armstrong, Gary Ryan and Graham Ryder, spent 10 days in hospital.Fuel price protests spread across Europe
02-06-2008 14:05
Growing anger over soaring fuel prices has prompted a wave of strikes and demonstrations across Europe that is fast becoming a major political crisis for the European bourgeoisie. After fishermen in France went on strike, their counterparts in Portugal, Spain, and Italy began indefinite nationwide work stoppages on May 30 to protest against soaring oil prices. Truck drivers, farmers, taxi drivers and ambulance workers across the continent also staged protests.It is OUR square and it is OUR right to protest in it whenever we want
01-06-2008 10:52
NHS strike looms as GMB reject pay deal
31-05-2008 14:17
A threat of industrial action across the NHS intensified yesterday when health workers in the GMB union voted by an overwhelming majority to reject the three-year pay deal offered by the government.