UK Workers' Movements Newswire Archive
Dispatch - new workers' bulletin on the public pay dispute - distro help request
06-08-2007 21:06
Help needed to distribute public sector workers pay struggles bulletin
06-08-2007 18:43
We are a group of workers mostly in the public sector, who met via the libcom.org website who are putting together a bulletin called Dispatch - Public sector pay dispute—information for action. An ad hoc newsletter for the ongoing struggles, mainly in the post office at present, against sub-inflation pay offers. We need your help getting it out to postal workers.Protest in support of Starbucks workers, 18 August
06-08-2007 13:38
Starbucks in an anti-union company that exploits its coffee shop workers as well as the people who grow the coffee beans it uses. That's why on Saturday 18 August, No Sweat and the Industrial Workers of the World union will be holding a national day of action to expose Starbucks' abuses and support Starbucks workers fight to get organised.Royal Mail wildcats spread to north of England
05-08-2007 15:39
Iraqi boy found near 5 slain brothers
04-08-2007 20:15
Iraqi police found a young boy, crying but unharmed, next to the bodies of his five brothers on Thursday after they were kidnapped by gunmen.Solidarity On Birkenhead Posties Picket Line
04-08-2007 18:12
On Thursday, 02.08.07 along with other posties throughout the country Birkenhead sorting office mounted a picket some 20 strong from 05.30 to 09.00. At approx 07.30 a lorry full of mail from the Chester hub came to deliver.(this would mean that mail would be waiting to be sorted from 5.30 the next day) After consultation with the picket and to the furious dismay of a manager the driver turned his truck around, unloaded back to the hub at Chester.Polish Posties Show Solidarity In Liverpool
04-08-2007 17:22
For some weeks we have had Polish casual workers in Liverpool m/c, the mail centre manager has been trying to beat us over the head with them, threatening to train them to operate the machines and such, if we go on strike.Demonstrate in support of Iranian workers, women, students - 9 August, London
03-08-2007 10:24
Left-wing activists will be protesting outside the Iranian embassy on Thursday 9 August in solidarity with the workers', women's and student movements in Iran.The expression of the subversive love of the Cuban revolution
02-08-2007 21:01
Starbucks Organizing Hits Europe Along w/ Union-Busting
02-08-2007 19:13
by Diane Krauthamer and Adam Lincoln
Africanist Movement establishes program for 2007 Sierra Leone elections
02-08-2007 15:29
The Africanist Movement, an organization based in several territories in West Africa, launches its revolutionary national democratic program that will provide solutions for the desperate problems facing African people and expose the neocolonial petty bourgeoisie contending for power through the electoral process. This general campaign is occurring during the election season in Sierra Leone, where in early August members of parliament and a new president will be elected.Wildcat Posties in West of Scotland
01-08-2007 22:45
In amongst the planned strikes in Royal Mail this week, posties in & around Glasgow have been taking spontaneous (“wildcat”) action over the last few days. Things are apparently hotting up, with one source saying that management are “stirring things up a bit to divide the workforce”.Wildcat Strikes Spread Through Royal Mail
01-08-2007 15:48
As a result of drivers refusing to cross pickets set up by their striking colleagues as part of the CWU rolling strikes, suspensions are leading to solidarity walkouts.Asbestos campaigners support call for investigation into PPG Group
01-08-2007 12:45
'Keep Your Blood Service Local' Birmingham Banner Drop
31-07-2007 11:04
Early this morning a banner was hoisted between two trees opposite the entrance to Birmingham's National Blood Service on Vincent Drive, Edgbaston. The banner proclaims 'Keep Your Blood Centre Local' and was positioned in full view of staff working at the Blood Service. This is in response to the National Blood Service (NBS) Directors plans to centralise our blood service by closing blood processing and testing labs at 10 local centres in favour of just 3 supercentres in Bristol, Manchester and London. 100s of technical staff, about half the lab workforce, face redundancy. If these plans are implemented then they will effectively rip the heart out of our National Blood Service. The proposed cuts will seriously undermine the services provided and emergencies, such as rushing washed blood platelets to patients, will be compromised.
On the 50th Anniversary of the SI
28-07-2007 15:25
Happy birthday, Situationist InternationalSheffield IWW - Starbucks skanked to death
27-07-2007 19:52
One rule for her maj, one rule for the miners
26-07-2007 07:16
The chattering classes have expressed outrage about footage of the Queen being reversed on the BBC. They were strangely silent when it happened to striking miners in 1984. It's time to find out the truth about that disgraceful distortionFresh wave of postal strikes begins
25-07-2007 22:42
Today saw the first of a fresh round of industrial actions by postal workers as the CWU dispute with Royal Mail escalated on both industrial and political fronts. The now-familiar picket lines at Birmingham's main mail centre in Newtown were again mounted as workers walked out at 7pm. The CWU said today's 24-hour strike at mail centres and cash handling sites was "even more solid" than previous ones.
