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This Saturday July 4th trade unionists and labour movement activists
will be converging in Shrewsbury to march for justice for the
Shrewsbury 24. Speakers at the lunchtime rally outside the Shrewsbury
Council Offices will include Ricky Tomlinson, speakers from the PCS and
the campaign itself.
On Monday 29th June the workers at Lindsey agreed to return to work
with heads held high.It was a magnificent result and all those involved
deserve a great round of applause.
FRIDAY LATEST:If the reports being posted in the national press websites are to be
believed, it looks like the striking Lindsey workers have won a great
victory.
An attempt by Unite members to present the case of Justice for Cleaners
activists who were sacked by the company Mitie after successfully
campaigning for the living wage was ruled “out of order” at a meeting
of 80 plus trade unionists in London on Thursday 18 June.
Here are some photos from Tuesday's solidarity action at Lindsey where workers are protesting at the sacking of nearly 650. Pictures show both sacked workers marching and burning their dismisal letters and the show of solidarity from other workers.
MONDAY UPDATE: Workers have been coming out today in support of the sacked Lindsey
workers - 900 of who received their cards last week after continuing to
stand up to the management.
For the past week contract workers have been on unofficial
strike at the Lindsey Total oil refinery in Lincolnshire. The workers are working on the
desulphurisation plant there. Solidarity action had been building up all over the
country with more than 2,000 workers staging stoppages at 10 other sites.
Unison General Secretary Dave Prentis suprised a few people at this year's conference in Brighton with his remarks on the funding of the Labour Party. With a majority of public sector workers now saying (according to a union poll) that they will not vote Labour as things stand, Prentis has had to react to the pressure from below. What's does this mean and where should Unison go from here?
Sacked convenor Rob Williams has been reinstated in his job at the Linamar factory in Wales. This represents a great victory for organised trade unionism.
It seems highly likely that tomorrow, June 10th 2009, there will be severe disruption on the London Underground system as a result of industrial action by the Rail, Maritime and Transport workers’ union (RMT). It is important that all Londoners understand the issues and get behind the RMT.
The
Annual Delegate Conference of the public sector union PCS took place
on 20-22 May in Brighton against the background of the worst global
recession for a generation and an unprecedented political crisis at
Westminster.Matt Wells reports on the issues discussed at one of the most important union conferences of the year,
The issue behind the ballot was cuts. The last time our union took
industrial action was in 2007. When we went back there were 4 phases to
the agreement that was signed. Phases 1 and 2 have gone through. Phase
3 is currently being implemented and is being met with stiff
resistance. If a worker doesn’t turn up for work unforeseen, the others
have to cover their duty – and we don’t get paid for it!
“How much more do they want from us? We will end up working for nothing.” This is the feeling amongst shopfloor works at Superform Aluminium in Worcester. Andy Fenwick of Socialist Appeal talked to workers who are not prepared to take any more cuts.
