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Italian worker’s message of solidarity with British workers Print E-mail
By Socialist Appeal   
Monday, 09 February 2009

lindsey.jpgSocialist Appeal interviewed Antonio Recano, an engineering shop steward, who works in the construction and maintenance of industrial plants, and works for one of the companies operating within the Syracuse oil refinery. He sends a message. " To the British workers who, not because of any xenophobic or protectionist logic, continue their battle in the whole country for wages and jobs, I wish to express my full solidarity and explain that I agree with the aims that flow from our common condition. I salute them, bringing greetings from all the Italian workers who are presently struggling like them for jobs and wages."

 
Construction workers demonstrate for the right to work Print E-mail
By A Socialist Appeal Industrial Reporter   
Friday, 06 February 2009
Yesterday, some 80 or so construction workers, many of them unemployed, gathered outside the head office of the TGWU (Unite) in central London, demanding action from the union. Many had been refused work at a Nottinghamshire power station. The crowd was later addressed by Tony Woodley, the joint general secretary of Unite, who recognised the just cause of those demonstrating. “Casualisation is the curse of the construction industry as it has been on the docks and elsewhere”, he said.

 

 
Unite-Amicus elections: Jerry Hicks for general Secretary! Print E-mail
By Socialist Appeal   
Friday, 06 February 2009

jh.jpgNominations have closed for the Unite-Amicus General Secretary election and the four candidates are Derek Simpson, Jerry Hicks, Kevin Coyne and Paul Reuter. The fifth candidate who was nominated, Laurence Faircloth, has withdrawn from the contest and is now recommending support for Derek Simpson! Faircloth was selected last November at a meeting of the Amicus Unity Gazette to be the official Broad Left candidate.

 
New Leaflet: The Bosses are Panicking! Time to step up the action! Print E-mail
By Socialist Appeal   
Thursday, 05 February 2009
bosses-panicksmall.jpgSocialist Appeal has produced a leaflet for today's lobby of construction workers outside the T&G (Unite) HQ in London. The leaflet calls for Unite to call for an immediate national strike in construction, to protect jobs, to extend and improve the NAECI agreement to all construction projects. This leaflet should be downloaded and used at all construction protests.
 
Wildcat strikes sweep Britain Print E-mail
By Socialist Appeal   
Tuesday, 03 February 2009

stay.jpgIn the last week of January 2009, industrial action began at the Lindsey refinery in Lincolnshire. Swiftly the strikes spread to Grangemouth in Scotland, Wilton in Cleveland and all over the country. By Friday January 30th 3,000 skilled workers were out from 11 plants. On Monday February 2nd thousands more joined the action. Sellafield workers at the nuclear reprocessing plant in Cumbria, Didcot power station, Longannet, Staythorpe, Milford Haven, Selby, Warrington and Aberthaw have all walked out. The Times headlined it as the “Dawn of new age of industrial unrest.” This is a well-organised, co-ordinated movement, which is unofficial and completely illegal under UK anti trade union laws.

 
URGENT: Two workers killed in Venezuela, while defending the occupied Mitsubitshi factory Print E-mail
By In Defence of Marxism   
Friday, 30 January 2009
venworkerkilled.jpgIn the afternoon of Wednesday, January 29 (Venezuelan time), two workers were killed by police in the state of Anzoategui, Venezuela. The workers killed are Pedro Suarez from the Mitsubishi factory and José Marcano from nearby auto parts factory Macusa. They were killed when regional police of Anzoategui was attempting evict hundreds of workers who had been occupying the Mitsubitshi (MMC) factory.
 
500 jobs to go at London Met? Print E-mail
By Mel MacDonald   
Friday, 30 January 2009
londonmet.jpgThe newest University in London, London Metropolitan, is in trouble. Earlier this week, a crowd of over 100 disgruntled teachers, students and staff gathered outside the Holloway campus to protest against cuts of up to 500 jobs. It seems the cuts are the result of bad book keeping by management that led to years of over-reporting of student completion rates to the Met's funding body HEFCE (Higher Education Funding Council for England). Now HEFCE is demanding a repayment of £38 billion and, as usual, the tops intend to produce the bulk of it in the form of staff cuts.
 
DLR workers to take action Print E-mail
By Rick Grogan (RMT)   
Friday, 30 January 2009
dlr.jpgMembers of the RMT rail union working in the control room of Docklands Light Railway will strike for 24 hours from 13:05 on Monday, February 2, in a dispute over the imposition of new weekend rosters. The union suspended an earlier threat of a work-to-rule held after the company withdrew the disputed roster, but talks held since have failed to break the deadlock.
 
Tube cleaners keep fighting Print E-mail
By Socialist Appeal   
Tuesday, 27 January 2009
tc2.jpgTube cleaners who led the strike last July for a decent wage are under attack. Mary Oboakye was sacked at a disciplinary earlier in January.

We don’t accept that management can just push these people around and treat them like dirt. Calls for Mary Oboakye to be reinstated will be backed up with an action at Metronet offices at lunchtime on Wednesday January 28th.

 
Defend Jobs and Education at London Met Print E-mail
By Socialist Appeal   
Tuesday, 27 January 2009

ucu.jpgUCU (the University and College Union – the main union for lecturers) and UNISON are battling to save London Metropolitan University from management plans to cut at least 330 jobs. ‘Times Higher Education’ puts it higher, estimating it “could mean up to 500 individuals (between one in seven and one in five of the current staff)" losing their jobs(22.01.09)

 
Jobs Threat at South West Trains Print E-mail
By Rick Grogan (RMT)   
Monday, 26 January 2009

swt.jpgSouth West Trains has declared its intention to slash 480 jobs on its operations. SWT’s parent company is Stagecoach, which is owned by the fabulously wealthy Brian Souter.For years winning a franchise to run one of the train operating companies has been a license to print money. Profit really comes from the fares paid by passengers and the government subsidies, handouts from taxpayers. Now that recession is here, passenger numbers are set to fall. The railway companies are feeling the pinch. They have decided to make their staff take the burden of the fall in revenues

 
Jerry Hicks: from no chance to every chance Print E-mail
By Socialist Appeal   
Tuesday, 20 January 2009

Unite Amicus General Secretary Election.

jh.jpgOn Friday January  16th Jerry Hicks learned that he had enough nominations to stand as candidate in the election . Jerry spoke of his great pleasure and pride at having received official notification.

 

 

 
Balance sheet of the 2008 struggle Print E-mail
By Socialist Appeal PCS Activists   
Tuesday, 20 January 2009
pcs_may_day_strike.jpgFor the past 4 years PCS members in the civil service have been in dispute over threats to their pensions, attacks on their sick leave, massive programmes of job cuts, privatisations and endemic low pay. Through united campaigning and strike action a number of concessions have been won. This is testament to members' willingness to fight back.
 
Barnet Council calls in the cowboys Print E-mail
By UNISON Socialist Appeal Supporters   
Tuesday, 13 January 2009

barn.jpgThe Tories on the Council of the London Borough of Barnet intend to set up a “joint venture company” with the private sector, transfer 4,000 workers out of local authority employment and leave a skeleton staff of commissioners and auditors. They are proposing to privatise the Council!

 
Unite-Amicus elections: Support Jerry Hicks! Print E-mail
By Socialist Appeal   
Thursday, 08 January 2009

 jh.jpg Jerry Hicks is standing for general secretary of the Amicus section of Unite. Jerry speaks to 'Socialist Appeal: "Workers rights, trade union freedoms, decent state pensions, pay and conditions, public ownership of utilities is the way forward especially now during the chaos that the free market has created. Our arguments have never made more sense. The last thing I’d like to say on this is I’m not afraid of the ‘S’ word – socialism."

 

 
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