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By Steve Jones
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Thursday, 23 April 2009 |
Jack Jones, former General Secretary of the TGWU (now part
of Unite) from 1969 to 1978 has died at the age of 96. Although he moved away
from the Left towards the end of his union career he was without a doubt one of
the best-known and most militant trade union leader of his day.
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By Alberto Einstein from Cleaners for Justice
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Wednesday, 22 April 2009 |
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Today, underground workers (RMT train operators working out of the
Seven Sisters depot covering the Victoria Line) are holding a 24 hour
strike that started at 9pm last night and goes until 9pm tonight closing the entire line.
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By Mel MacDonald
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Tuesday, 21 April 2009 |
Despite their small numbers, the Mitie cleaners are punching
well above their weight. Every Friday at 1pm they gather in front of the
offices of Willis insurance brokers in the heart of London’s business district,
and with the help of a megaphone kindly donated by the Clerkenwell and St
Pancras branch of Unite, they begin their protest. The cleaners and their
supporters don flourescent vests, blow whistles and shout slogans demanding the
reinstatement of the unfairly sacked cleaners.
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By Steve Kelly (London Construction Unite)
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Tuesday, 14 April 2009 |
I have been an active trade union member of Unite the union in its various forms since 1986 when I first joined EEPTU. I was first properly involved in rank and file activity in 1988 on a site in London where I was an elected safety rep. A few weeks ago, I managed to obtain my file from the Information Commissioner’s Office, which clearly proved that a blacklist was in operation for many years. It was an 18 page document containing allegations that I was a “trouble maker” and much more besides.
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By Socialist Appeal
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Tuesday, 14 April 2009 |
Over the past decade, Latin America has been in the forefront of the struggle against capitalism and its evil effects upon the lives of working class people. Nowhere has been the case more than in Venezuela, where Chavez, President for the past ten years, proudly proclaims himself a socialist. Latin America of course has long been a victim of capitalism and imperialism. In Venezuela the capitalist class have often simply abandoned their factories as unprofitable, leaving the workers to rot. These workers have indignantly stood up for their rights. For years past they have struggled to occupy these factories as a way of maintaining their livelihoods. They are ahead of us in Britain and the rest of Europe. We should learn the lessons.
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By Des Heemskerk
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Thursday, 09 April 2009 |
The leader of the attempted occupation of the Visteon plant at Basildon (component supplier to Ford) speaks to Socialist Appeal. After the ending of the occupation, the workers have maintained a twenty-four hour picket on the factory. Belfast and Enfield remain occupied. These are the first factory occupations in Britain for more than 30 years. It is an inspiring new stage in working class struggle.
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By UNISON Socialist Appeal Supporters
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Thursday, 09 April 2009 |
It’s a shame that halfpennies were abolished twenty or so years ago, because that’s all that the Local Government employers think we are worth. That’s right 0.5% or a halfpenny in the pound, that’s what hundreds of thousands of UNISON members are to be offered in this year’s pay round. But as though that wasn’t enough, we are reliably informed that they intend to withdraw the offer if we don’t agree to it by June 1st.
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By Socialist Appeal
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Wednesday, 08 April 2009 |
WORKERS DUE TO BE EVICTED
YOUR SUPPORT IS URGENTLY NEEDED
RALLY AT ENFIELD FACTORY
Tomorrow Thursday 9th April at 11am sharp!
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By Socialist Appeal
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Wednesday, 01 April 2009 |
Visteon workers in Enfield and Basildon have joined with Belfast workers in occupying their plants.Management has put the firm into administration. Belfast workers have been defending their occupation by staying in overnight. The workers are taking action because they have to. They were just brutally kicked off the premises without any notice. If management get away with this, 600 workers at the three plants will be sacked and left on the minimum statutory redundancy pay.
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By A Unite member
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Wednesday, 25 March 2009 |
The result of the election for General Secretary in the Amicus section of Unite the union vindicates the challenge that was mounted by Jerry Hicks against the attempt of Simpson to cling onto office without election. Although Simpson won with a vote of 60,048 Jerry Hicks was well placed in second position, polling 39,307 and easily beating the right wingers Kevin Coyne, who only gained 30,603 votes and Paul Reuter who came fourth with 28,283.
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By Socialist Appeal
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Wednesday, 18 March 2009 |
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This Friday 20 March at 13.00 hours, cleaners employed by Mitie at
global insurance brokers the Willis Group will be demonstrating again
outside the Willis Building, 51 Lime Street EC3 7DQ (tube: Liverpool
Street or Bank)
Please come and support, and bring anything visible (banners etc) and anything noisy!
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By Rachel Gibbs
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Tuesday, 17 March 2009 |
As has already
been reported on marxist.com and socialist.net, the workers at the PRISME packaging
plant in Dundee have been in occupation since the 4th of March. The workers
decided to occupy the factory after they were each given a letter informing
them of their immediate dismissal without any of the pay they were owed from
the first of March. They demanded a letter outlining the payments they were
due, which when the received outlined all they payments they were entitled to,
however it scandalously concluded with the sentence “Unfortunately, we do not
have enough money to make these payments to you.”
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By Iranian Workers' Solidarity Network
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Monday, 16 March 2009 |
An enthusiastic group of British trade unionists, Socialist Appeal
members and IWSN activists, gathered outside the Iranian regime's
embassy in London at 12:30 on March 14. After assembling on the other
side of the road, where pickets are normally held, the protesters moved
to the pavement outside the embassy to chant slogans like "Free all
political prisoners in Iran!", "Independent workers' unions now!" and
"Iranian workers are not alone!". The pickets even tried, with some
success, to chant "Kargaran-e iran tanha nistand" ("Iranian workers are
not alone!").
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By Darrall Cozens, Coventry Labour Party and UCU (personal capacity)
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Monday, 16 March 2009 |
With repeated cries of “Royal Mail, Not for
Sale” and echoes of the 1980s with “Mandy, Mandy, Mandy, Out, Out, Out!” more
than 1,000 CWU members and their supporters settled down in a meeting hall in
Bilston near Wolverhampton on Saturday afternoon March 14th to
listen to a range of speakers opposing the threat to privatise up to 49% of the
postal services.
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By Socialist Appeal
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Friday, 13 March 2009 |
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• D Simpson: 60,048
• Jerry Hicks: 39,307
• K Coyne: 30,603
• P Reuter: 28,283
Thank you all those who nominated, those who campaigned and
those who voted for me in the election for General Secretary of Unite / Amicus.It was due to your efforts and generosity that our campaign
was able to reach out and touch and win the hearts and minds of tens thousands
of our members who returned this magnificent vote.Our message was clearly and proudly taken into workplaces
and homes, across every industry and in every part of the country and inspired,
motivated and gave hope to the many thousands who heard it and responded to it.
The result is a clear vindication of the relevance of the election and appeal
of our policies.
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