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By Andy Fenwick (Unite member)
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Thursday, 30 September 2010 |
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Sacked Polish workers gathered yesterday at the gates at Siemens new power
station at
Uskmouth near Newport to meet with representative of the GMB union. The
workers
were sacked by management of Durmar Ltd, the lowest link in a chain of
contractors and sub contractors. It is rumoured that the workers have
been replaced with other workers by Isocore, an Austrian contractor
that sub-contracted the
work to Durmar, who employed workers to lag pipe work on this project.
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By Yorkshire Unite activist
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Thursday, 23 September 2010 |
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The following letter from a Unite member in Yorkshire shows the
increasing understanding of many union activists and stewards about the
need to have a leadership which both understands what the bosses are
really up to and knows what the movement must do in response.
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By Rob Sewell
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Thursday, 23 September 2010 |
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As soon as Mervyn King, Governor of the
Bank of England, was introduced at the TUC in Manchester, Bob Crow and the rest
of the RMT delegation walked out in protest. “It is like a gathering of
Christians inviting the Devil round for Christmas dinner”, commented Brother
Crow. “The bankers are obviously on hard times these days, so he must have come
along to pass around the hat.”
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By Socialist Appeal
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Monday, 13 September 2010 |
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As the TUC meets in Manchester and calls are made for united concerted
action to fight the coalition cuts, Jerry Hicks, the Left candidate for the General
Secretary position in Unite, has issued a press statement on fighting
the cuts
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By Jeremy Dear, NUJ
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Friday, 10 September 2010 |
This year's meeting of the TUC in Manchester could be the most
important for years. In the face of a vicious attack on the living
standards of the working class by the new coalition government, workers
will be looking to the trade union movement for a way of fighting back.
Jeremy Dear, General secretary of the NUJ and TUC General Council
member, looks at the issues to be dealt with on next week's conference
agenda.
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By Darrall Cozens
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Tuesday, 31 August 2010 |
 Martin Hartnett, a union convenor at Peugeot in Coventry, spoke to Darrall Cozens from Coventry TUC on the upcoming election in Unite for the General Secretary position.
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By Socialist Appeal
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Tuesday, 24 August 2010 |
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It has now been confirmed that Jerry Hicks is on the ballot paper for
the UNITE general secretary election. With over a quarter of the nominating period to go,
he has already secured more than the required nominations to be able to
declare that he will be a candidate in the coming election, gaining
support from every region and sector of the union.
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By Northern Region UNISON Socialist Appeal Supporters
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Friday, 06 August 2010 |
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Connexions
staff in Northumberland are facing a meltdown situation after Northumberland
County Council cut their funding at a stroke by 24% . Management at Igen which
runs the contract have approached UNISON with a proposal for all staff to move
to a 3 day week up until the end of March.
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By Socialist Appeal
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Tuesday, 03 August 2010 |
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Campaign Press Release: Yunus Bakhsh, a highly respected trade unionist from
Newcastle, has won a four-year battle to clear his name after a landmark
Employment Tribunal victory. Bosses at Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS
Trust
sacked the mental health nurse in 2008, claiming he had bullied and
intimidated
other workers. But in a scathing judgement the tribunal last week found
that
the Trust had unfairly dismissed Yunus for his trade union activities.
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By Gavin, DWP worker. Shared Services. PCS Union Member.
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Thursday, 22 July 2010 |
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Once again, though, the new Tory/ Lib Dem government has
turned its eyes towards the redundancy payments of civil servants. The
Tories reckon on saving more than the £500 million envisaged last year by the Hoonites when the time comes to destroy over half a million jobs across the
public sector, a good portion of which is to come from the civil
service.
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By Socialist Appeal
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Tuesday, 20 July 2010 |
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The following motion was passed by Southwark unison at a special members
meeting to discuss how to fight the cuts in local government. We are
publishing it here as it represents a good template that can be used by
trade unionists elsewhere in drafting similiar resolutions.
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By LRC Press Release
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Monday, 05 July 2010 |
 John McDonnell, supported by the Trade Union Co-ordinating Group,
presented his Private Members’ Bill to parliament on June 30th. If
adopted, the
Bill would significantly improve unions’ ability to defend their
members and would be the first step towards the full restoration of
trade union rights.
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By Unison Socialist Appeal Supporters
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Thursday, 24 June 2010 |
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The long awaited UNISON General Secretary Ballot Result has
been announced, resulting in a victory for the incumbent, Dave Prentis,
with
Roger Bannister in second place and Paul Holmes, the candidate favoured
by the
Unison United Left and Unison Socialist Appeal Supporters, in third
place.
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By Paul Holmes NEC Member and Kirklees UNISON Branch Secretary (Personal Capacity)
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Monday, 21 June 2010 |
 With the results of the Unison General Secretary election due on
Tuesday 22nd June, we reproduce here an article by Left candidate Paul
Holmes which was published on the front page of the United Left paper, issued during last week's Unison conference:
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By Socialist Appeal
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Friday, 11 June 2010 |
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Alan Docherty, a long standing Unison activist has been banned from holding office for two years by union officials in what is a clear attack on democracy in the union.
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