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UK Workers' Movements Newswire Archive

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GMB MEMBERS IN ASDA WAL-MART TO STRIKE FOR 5 DAYS

23-06-2006 15:07

GMB Shop Stewards National Council agree programme of industrial action including an initial period of 5 consecutive days strike to be followed by comprehensive further industrial action

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Five-day strike by Asda workers

22-06-2006 17:20

Asda says it will try to maintain a normal service in stores as
thousands of Asda distribution workers will stage a five-day strike from 30 June, in a protest over pay and bargaining rights.

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GMB Members In ASDA Wal-Mart 20 Distribution Depots Deliver An Overwhelming Vote

22-06-2006 07:16

GMB members working in Asda Wal-Mart's 20 distribution depots across the country have voted by 3 to 1 (74.1% in favour) to take strike action in support of their outstanding claims with the company. They also voted by an even bigger margin of more than 4 to 1 for industrial action short of a strike to secure their objectives.

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The Scottish Socialist Party United Left

21-06-2006 17:03

The Scottish Socialist Party United Left (or SSP United Left for short) is a new grouping in the Scottish Socialist Party. An appeal to launch this grouping took place on 13 June 2006.

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Defend NHS Demo - Victoria Station 11:30 June 24th

21-06-2006 13:52

Demonstrations against 800 job cuts and service cuts at Pennine PCT, gather at Victoria Station 1130, Saturday 24th June

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Berkely Cinema Workers Vote IWW

20-06-2006 19:38

Union Wins Landslide Victory
Cinema Workers Pull
Through with Vote for The IWW

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Remember Des Warren - Justice for the Shrewsbury Pickets

20-06-2006 18:14

3pm, Saturday 5 August 2006 at the Casa, Hope Street, Liverpool

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Smithdown Against Demolition formed in Liverpool

20-06-2006 17:33

On July 11, 2006 the issue of the unnecessary Compulsory Purchase Orders for our homes and businesses went to Public Inquiry. For those of you who have been to public meetings and been told by the council and their partners that these houses are definitely coming down - this is a lie. This is their preferred option, which will be decided by Public Inquiry, and then by Ruth Kelly MP, for the Government.

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London Bridge Contact Improvisation Friday23 june 4-6pm

20-06-2006 12:37

A group of approximately eight dancers will perform Contact Improvisation dressed in office suits, while slowly moving through the bridge, in silence. This will involve passing through the crowd of people that is, in its most part, coming from the City centre on their way home to the suburbs, after a busy office day job.

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Oil Union Accounts Frozen - Iraqi Gov Attacks Opponents of Oil Privatisation

20-06-2006 11:37

We have just confirmed reports that the Iraqi regime has frozen all the bank accounts of the Iraqi oil workers' union, both abroad and within Iraq.

Wave of anti-union activity by government The Iraqi regime's decision comes in the wake of a series of anti-union measures, including the disbanding of the council of the lawyers' union, freezing the writers' union accounts and the September 2005 decree making all trade union activity illegal. For that anti-union act the regime used the pretext of promising the promulgation of a future law to 'regulate' trade union organisations and their activities.

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Norris Green Workers Protest Sayers Job Cuts

20-06-2006 01:47

Nearly a hundred workers and their families took to the streets of Norris Green, Liverpool on Saturday 17th June, in a protest against almost 200 redundancies at Liverpool bakers Sayers. They called on the company to invest in the site to help improve efficiency, rather than make the redundancies.

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Birkenhead families to lose housing benefits

19-06-2006 18:42

So-called 'neighbours from hell' in Birkenhead are going to be among the first to be stripped of housing benefits, plunging them even further into the poverty that causes their 'antisocial behaviour'.

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Show solidarity with migrant ! workers in Spain !

19-06-2006 12:47

A fight for public money ! .....

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Mega protest march in Oaxaca

17-06-2006 12:35

Oaxaca teachers greet release of imprisoned comrades
Hundreds of thousands marched yesterday (16 June) in the Mexican state of Oaxaca, in protest against the brutal police attack on striking teachers last Wednesday. They were joined by people from San Salvador Atenco, the town brutalised by paramilitary police last month.

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Group Work: arts-related groups, collectives and movements

17-06-2006 10:55

Dear enthusiasts of group work and collaboration:
Please help us build a database of people working in arts and arts-related groups, collectives and movements.

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Patients Must Travel Further To See GPs

16-06-2006 21:33

In the ‘Our Health, Our Care, Our Say’ White Paper, the government has published details of how you must travel further to see your doctors and dentists, spending more time and money whilst damaging the environment with increased exhaust emissions that poison us all.

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The Class of the New

14-06-2006 08:14

Book Launch:
The Class of the New by Richard Barbrook
Friday, 16 June 2006, 6-9pm
Ground floor, The Whitechapel Centre, 85 Myrdle Street London E1 1HQ
Map:  http://linkme2.net/84

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Northern Class War organising - meeting in Newcastle

14-06-2006 08:03

Class War have organised a discussion about changing class composition in the north east, with relevant participants in major class struggles. Come and join the debate and get the class war moving in the north east.

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Rail Workers Strike Against 'Effective Pay Freeze'

13-06-2006 14:26

Thousands of signal workers and operations staff at Network Rail will walk out for 24 hours from 1pm on June 20, and again from 9pm on June 25.

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Keep Our NHS Public Demo & Meeting

13-06-2006 11:03

Cuts and job losses will devastate health services. The NHS debt of £800m is less than 1% of its total budget. The government could easily afford to cancel the debt and cancel job cuts. Join together to make them give us the money to run the NHS.
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