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UK Workers' Movements Newswire Archive

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Day 9 of Mersey Fire Strike: FBU publish alternative cuts plan

12-09-2006 19:19

FBU General Secretary Matt Wrack with Croxteth Strikers
As Merseyside firefighters began a second eight day strike against the cuts proposed by the Fire Authority, the FBU published details of their own money-saving scheme.

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Rail Against Ken Livingston the Scab and Privatisation!

12-09-2006 13:22

Rail Against Privatisation - keep the East London Line public!

RMT is campaigning against moves by London Mayor Ken Livingstone and Transport for London to privatise the East London Line.

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Haringey , the Child Snatchers

12-09-2006 12:26

Social services abuse of power

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Bury St Edmonds strikers in frontline battle against Privatisation of NHS

11-09-2006 23:16


Bury St Edmonds workers are on the frontline of one of the countries most important battles to protect the NHS against privatisation. Blair’s government wants to sell off part of the NHS called NHS Logistics to DHS, the private haulage firm based in Germany on 1st October.

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Classroom assistant suspended for anti-Blair protest

11-09-2006 22:19

A London classroom assistant has been suspended for helping to organise a protest against Blair when he spoke at his school last week. Please support the campaign to defend his job and workers' right to protest.

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Failure to support Strike Action at Hunterston Nuclear Power Station.

11-09-2006 17:09

British Energy staff at Hunterston B Nuclear Power Station threatened with dismissal if they show support (refuse to cross picket lines) for official strike action by Balfour Kilpatrick electricians.
Sept 12th / 13th 2006

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Merseyside FBU March Announced

10-09-2006 19:25

Solidarity with Merseyside members of FBU
MARCH AND RALLY
FRIDAY 15TH SEPTEMBER

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Local Exchange & Trading Schemes (LETS) Across the UK

10-09-2006 12:38

The local exchange and trading systems or schemes operate all over the UK, generating goodwill and revitalizing communities while offering services to those in need regardless of circumstance.

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Losses in Gaza strip estimated at $46 million

10-09-2006 11:56

The following article has been published on the website Welcome to Baqa'a Refugee Camp.

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Sheffield Protest Against NHS Cuts and Privatisation

09-09-2006 14:31

Hundreds of protestors took to the streets of Sheffield on Saturday 9th September 2006 to oppose the closure of a ward at the Childrens Hospital and against NHS cuts and privatisation in general.

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The Law is an Ass, by Philip Ruddock

09-09-2006 10:18

Philip Ruddock, Australian Attorney General, announced today that a broader range of people in the Australian community (non-Muslims) are to be targeted as “terrorists!” Ruddock also stated that persons who are not ‘terrorists’ need not be alarmed as his new wider classification should not concern ‘them’(?)

Australian citizens are left to conclude that the determination of who exactly is a terrorist has become an arbitrary prerogative of the Attorney General and his gang of enforcers! Whatever happened to due process, innocent until PROVEN guilty? {God help that journalist who stepped on Ruddock’s toe, he will be the first to go!) It is not coincidental that the Bush regime also found due process to be an inconvenience. Ruddock’s logic and methods reek of neo-con methods, Guantanamo (Torture) Bay and Bush regime criminal methodologies have found expression in Oz.

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Day 8 of Mersey Fire Strike: Scale of Cuts Confirmed

08-09-2006 20:33

FBU General Secretary Matt Wrack with Croxteth Strikers
As the first round of strikes ended, Merseyside Fire Authority revealed how they intended to cut £3.5 million from their budget. Meanwhile, the General Secretary of the Fire Brigades' Union has called a national demonstration in Liverpool next Friday.

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Demonstrate against Cuts to Sheffield Children's Hospital

08-09-2006 08:13

Saturday 9th September

Assemble: Weston Park (opposite Children's Hospital) at 10am
(51or 52 bus from High Street, City Centre)
March to City Hall steps for rally at around noon

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Slow reconstruction blamed on corruption

07-09-2006 20:09

It has been three years since the fall of the former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein’s government and Iraqis are still lacking basic facilities such as power, clean potable water and sanitation, problems some experts blame on corruption.

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Day 7 of Mersey Fire Strike: More Delaying Tactics By Authority

07-09-2006 16:49

FBU picket in Croxteth
With just forty hours to go in this round of strikes, the Fire Authority finally agreed to come back to the table....on Monday! Meanwhile, the Authority has planned an away day at Aintree racecourse, to paid for by the taxpayer!

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Workplace Stress endemic

07-09-2006 14:42

There are according to the Health and Safety Executive 5 million sufferers of workplace stress.
A recent court case has closed a loophole for employers when being sued for negligence and failing in their duty of care.
For a more in depth analysis of the case see:
 http://www.workrep.co.uk/news/psychiatricinjury.html

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In Lebanon a battle within the Middle East great war

06-09-2006 18:30

There are only two possible solutions for the “Palestinian problem”, classic solutions, historically already defined by the communist movement: or the proletarian revolution (in that particular area the bourgeois revolution is done, as we said above, and it had the mark of Israel) that allows the unification of the nationalities in a transition phase (obviously to eliminate the national problem to the root); or a total war that redraws the whole map of the Middle East and reaches the same aim by a top-imposition.

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Day 6 of Mersey Fire Strike: "We are not getting anywhere."

06-09-2006 13:59

Firefighter Mark Rowe - Speaking up for Merseysiders
Even as he was announcing another eight dates of strike action against the Fire Authority's cuts agenda, Merseyside FBU secretary Les Skarratts admitted "We are not getting anywhere."

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Feminist Fightback conference - more details

06-09-2006 13:58

Feminist Fightback is a conference for feminist activists, which will be
held on Saturday 21 October at the School of Oriental and African Studies,
London. Please see below for our launch statement.

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Keep Our NHS Public meeting in Merseyside

06-09-2006 10:30

7:30 pm Wednesday 13th September
Lydiate Parish Hall
286 Southport Road, Lydiate
(near the 'Scotch Piper')
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