Britain
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By Andy Fenwick
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Friday, 09 December 2011 |
The constant excuse of Cameron and the government for
attacking public sector pensions is that workers in the private sector do not
have access to final salary pensions but have to rely instead on the
fluctuations of the money markets to provide the pension funds with enough
income to give to its members a miserly pension. But it was not so long ago
that the majority of private sector workers had the opportunity to enrol in
final salary schemes. It was only after 1998 that schemes started to close to
new members so that today only 15% of private sector workers are covered by
final salary schemes.
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By Matthew Rawlings
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Wednesday, 07 December 2011 |
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Well if ever there is a place in England that isn’t
revolutionary or willing for workers action you might think it would be Bury St
Edmunds – or so you might think. Bury is a town that is typically seen as
bourgeoisie and reactionary with quaint villages surrounding it which keep to
themselves. The 30th however saw something that has not
entered the consciousness of the people of Bury (after discussion with locals)
ever. By this of course I’m talking about the mass strike action. As the UNISON rep for West Suffolk College I was able to
draw upon my own reflections of the day and discuss with others why this was
necessary.
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By a Birmingham City Council Adults and Communities Unison Steward
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Tuesday, 06 December 2011 |
There were unprecedented scenes in Birmingham on N30 after the
Tory-Lib-Dem coalition that runs Birmingham City Council tried to ban
the planned TUC protest march.
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By James Kilby (QM Marxists)
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Monday, 05 December 2011 |
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A solid number of
students including the QM Marxists joined staff from the UCU
and Unison in solidarity with their struggle against pension
reforms. From as early as 7am, students gathered at the main
gate to help set up picket lines. All entrances to campus
were covered. Students played a significant role in boosting
the strength of the pickets, and helped effectively close
off several of the main entrances.
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By Darrall Cozens, UCU, Coventry TUC and Coventry NW Labour Party
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Friday, 02 December 2011 |
On
the day it turned out to be the biggest trade union demonstration in
Coventry since the 1970s. They came in their hundreds from all parts of
the city and from all public sector trade unions as well as from trade
unions that were not on strike that day - the FBU was well represented.
By the time of the rally at the end of the march through Coventry city
centre some 2,500 trade unionists and their families were crammed into
the area known as Speakers Corner opposite the Council building.
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By Michael Allan
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Friday, 02 December 2011 |
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At least 20,000 - perhaps as many as 30,000 – marched through Glasgow in support of the strikes.
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By Dr. Andy Thompson, UNITE (MPU) in a personal capacity
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Friday, 02 December 2011 |
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Here are some impressions of the Nov 30 protest from Birmingham.
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By Tam Burke (Prospect member, in a personal capacity)
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Friday, 02 December 2011 |
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Tourists
looking down from the Castle saw history being
made
below them as Johnston Terrace was jammed with
clerks, cooks and cleaners,
teachers, librarians, radiographers, nurses,
lectures, bin men and women,
jannies, curators, students, thousands more of
good humoured but determined
public sector workers and their bairns
determined not to be “robbed of their
pension”, as I was told by a First Davison
Association (top management
union) picket at the court.
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By Rob Sewell
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Thursday, 01 December 2011 |
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More than two million public sector
workers took strike action yesterday. That amounted to a virtual general
strike of the public sector. In terms of numbers, the action was bigger
than the “Winter of Discontent” in 1979 - bigger even than the 1926 General Strike. Even The Financial Times, the organ of Big Business, surprisingly described Wednesday’s strike as “undoubtedly historic”.
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By Maggie Fenwick Unison Worcestershire Acute Hospitals, Personal Capacity
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Thursday, 01 December 2011 |
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On the eve of the 30th November I, like many other public sector
workers in Worcester, was making sandwiches, filling flasks full of
coffee and digging out themal T shirts ready for cold picket lines.The
pickets were set up before sunrise at the hospitals in Worcestershire.
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By Images: George Diakogeorgiou
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Thursday, 01 December 2011 |
One of the biggest protest marches held on Nov 30 was in London with thousands of workers and students joining feeder demonstrations from various parts of the capital. These merged with the main protest through Central London from Midday - official estimates put the number on the march at over 20,000.
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By Harry
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Thursday, 01 December 2011 |
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Here is a brief report from a London picket line - one of many which were held yesterday as part of the Nov 30 strike and protest.
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By Richard Vivian
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Thursday, 01 December 2011 |
800 public sector workers marched through Barnsley yesterday - and an estimated 4,000 did the same in Sheffield.
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By Socialist Appeal
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Thursday, 01 December 2011 |
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Nov 30: Report from Newcastle!
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By Steve Jones
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Wednesday, 30 November 2011 |
Around a thousand trade unionists marched thru the centre of Chelmsford in Essex in what must have been the largest such protest since the days of the Peasant Revolt!
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