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Olympics dream turns to nightmare

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By Blacklist Support Group
Wednesday, 23 February 2011
Enfield based electrician Frank Morris has been sacked from working on the prestigious Media Centre at the Olympics after blowing the whistle on the use of an illegal blacklist on the construction project.

Wapping Dispute: 25 Years On

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By Jim Brookshaw
Wednesday, 26 January 2011
Last night (Tuesday 24th Jan) several hundred people assembled inside the St. Brides Institute just off Fleet Street in London to mark the 25th anniversary of the start of the Wapping Dispute. Jim Brookshaw, who was FoC for the AUEW engineers at Times Newspapers atthe time, looks back at this historic struggle.

Jim Lafferty - a tribute

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By Steve Kelly
Tuesday, 28 December 2010
Steve Kelly from the London Construction branch of unite, writes this tribute to Jim Lafferty who died on the 23rd December - a class fighter who will be missed by all who knew him.

Big Society? Big Cuts, Big Protest!

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By Socialist Appeal
Wednesday, 01 December 2010
On Wednesday 15th December at 10.00am a delegation from the RMT will present hundreds of signed postcards from passengers across London to the Mayor, Boris Johnson, calling for an end to the threatened jobs massacre.

Unite election: Message from Jerry Hicks

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By Jerry Hicks
Tuesday, 23 November 2010
"Please can I take this opportunity to convey a massive thank you to all those who contributed in our campaign and produced a result that the media and political parties said was not possible. To our great credit we always believed and knew otherwise"

Right wing trounced in UNITE election

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By our industrial correspondent
Monday, 22 November 2010
The right wing suffered a big set back in the election for the new General Secretary election of Unite, Britain’s biggest trade union with 1.4 million members. After an excellent campaign rank and file candidate Jerry Hicks came second beating the main establishment candidates of the right wing.

Landmark legal victory for blacklisted workers

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By Blacklist Support Group
Tuesday, 16 November 2010
Trade union member Phil Willis has won a landmark legal judgement (Wed 10th Nov), that massively boosts the chances for other blacklisted workers seeking justice in UK courts and may open up construction employers to millions in damages.

BA Cabin Crew: Jerry speaks out!

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By http://www.jerryhicks4gs.com/
Tuesday, 09 November 2010
Running simultaneously and arguably as crucial as the election for Unite’s General Secretary itself is the BA dispute and a proposal to ‘settle’ it. 12 months ago British Airways cabin crew on an 80% turn out, voted by a brilliant 92% to take strike action to defend their hard won terms and conditions. The dispute started as a result of the imposition and erosion of ‘Terms and Conditions’ but has been diverted by British Airways and is now being defined by staff travel and the disciplinary process. But with scores of cabin crew suspended and a dozen sacked, the proposed ‘deal’ is already unravelling.

Jerry Hicks Campaign: 8 posting days left

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By http://www.jerryhicks4gs.com/
Tuesday, 09 November 2010
Here is the latest from the Jerry Hicks campaign with just 8 posting days left to get those ballots in to elect Jerry as the new GS of Unite.

Made In Dagenham: History Revised

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By Andy Fenwick
Wednesday, 03 November 2010
The release of the movie “Made in Dagenham” was eagerly anticipated by many trade unionists only to disappoint. The light hearted interpretation of this major piece of working class history has the same style and approach as adopted for the “Billy Elliott” interpretation of the Miners Strike or “The Full Monty” to the hardships of unemployment under Thatcher.

Coalition's "Winter Of Discontent"

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By Steve Jones
Wednesday, 03 November 2010
Whenever any serious strike action took place during the tenure of the last Labour government, not least if it involved public sector workers, the bosses’ press and the TV news channels would start going on about a new “winter of discontent.” Almost invariably the same 1978/9 footage of rubbish pilling up in Leicester Square would be shown and assorted Tory MPs would rattle on about how Labour couldn’t control the unions and how different things would be if they were in power. Well they are in power now and what are we seeing?

Support NUJ members fighting for fair pensions at BBC

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By Socialist Appeal NUJ chapel
Friday, 29 October 2010
NUJ members at the BBC have voted by 70% to reject the latest offer from the management on pension changes and are intending to take action by striking for 48 hours on 5 and 6 November and again on 15 and 16 November with further dates to be named in the coming days. Here is the text of an appeal now being circulated.

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By www.jerryhicks4gs.com
Thursday, 28 October 2010
PRESS RELEASE FROM THE JERRY HICKS CAMPAIGN. Up and down the country, hundreds of workplaces have already been leafleted, but the next two weeks are crucial even though we will be doing stuff until the final day of balloting [19th November] Unite member or not, everyone will be affected by the result and who becomes the General Secretary of Unite.

Leadership candidate of UK's largest union visits Northampton.

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By http://www.jerryhicks4gs.com/
Thursday, 14 October 2010
PRESS RELEASE: Jerry Hicks, the candidate standing on a platform of greater democracy in the 'UNITE' union and for a more militant policy in defense of jobs and conditions, spoke at the Amicus section of 'UNITE The Union' in Northampton on Saturday.

We must fight to defend every job

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By www.jerryhicks4gs.com
Tuesday, 12 October 2010
PRESS RELEASE: Jerry Hicks, grassroots candidate for the position of Unite General Secretary, says Unite must reject the Con Dem Government’s plans to slash Civil Servant redundancy payments.

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