UK Workers' Movements Newswire Archive
Second strike by Parliament cleaners.
09-11-2005 23:01
To add insult to injury they are paid shit wages without any holiday or sick pay or pension provision. The chief executive of the agency that employs them is on six figure salary. The cleaners went on strike for the second time on Wednesday.
Zimbabwe - Behind Bars For Fighting Poverty - Call for Solidarity
09-11-2005 19:38
Yesterday was a day of action against poverty, a day the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions declared a day to march against the poverty killing workers. Activists demonstrated at High Glen Shopping Centre, toyi toying and distributing revolutionary pamphlets against poverty while hundreds gathered in town to march. Over 24 hours after the arrest of about 120 demonstrators in the city centre and the lawyers are still told that arresting officers have not finished preparing papers for the arrested. Last night most of them were transferred from Harare Central to Chitungwiza and Dema holding cells 25 & 30 km outside Harare.Iraqi oil union leader to tour UK, November 2005
04-11-2005 17:20
Hassan Jumaa Awad, President of the Iraqi Federation of Oil Unions (IFOU) formerly known as the General Union of Oil Employees, Basra (GUOE) will be touring the UK next month.Hassan has been invited to the UK for Iraq Occupation Focus’ ‘Voices from Occupied Iraq’ Teach-In on November 26th and the Stop The War Coalition’s International Peace Conference on December 10th
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03-11-2005 15:41
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IWW Centenary Celebration – Ramparts, London – this Saturday
02-11-2005 22:24
THE WOBBLIES ARE BACK!Justice for Cleaners rally at Deutsche Bank, London
01-11-2005 12:43
There is a "Justice For Cleaners" Rally at the Deutsche Bank headquarters in London tomorrow, November 2nd. Especially interesting for precaria@s...Anti Americas Summit: Social movements in Argentina: the other face of the denie
01-11-2005 08:03
George Bush manages the state of the militarily more powerful nation. Inversely proportional to its endebles fiscal and commercial. The war is a sign of weakness of Capitalism, not of its strength.United States economy is mortally employee of the flows of plusvalor of the living work that sails in the financial transactions like dead work. This is the profane reason of IV the Summit of the Américas in Sea of the Silver: to advance with the Area of Free Commerce of Américas (ALCA).
PLEASE TAKE ACTION: Iraqi trade unionists denied entry to Germany
27-10-2005 14:44
A major tour of Germany, supported by hundreds of peace groups, is under threat, as the German authorities have refused visas for the speakers from the General Union of Oil Employees, Basra, an anti-occupation, anti-privatisation union. Please fax, email or otherwise contact your local German embassy in order to protest. Info about local embassies is at the bottom of this article.Shareholder Value
26-10-2005 22:30
Since unemployment has reached an unparalleled dimension under the combination of enormously increased productivity, global wage dumping, weakened unions and non-existent system competition, I prefer unparalleled solutions: a radical redistribution of work and income.Ewa Jasiewicz talk in Glasgow’s Caledonian University on Iraq.
26-10-2005 01:41
Karahnjukar: Beat the dam, not the workers
25-10-2005 09:52
The Iceland Review website reports that 2 B, the employment agency that supplies Polish workers for Iceland's Kárahnjúkar dam project, told the Icelandic foremen that if the Poles showed any resistance he should beat them.Gate Gourmet Demo - Downing Street - Tuesday!
24-10-2005 13:13
STATEMENT FROM GATEGOURMET WOMEN WORKERS
WE DEMAND JUSTICE AND RESPECT AS WOMEN AND AS
WORKERS!
Political Prisoner Harold Thompson Attacked in Prison by nazis
22-10-2005 00:45
.Fight for a living wage
20-10-2005 10:32
After battles upon battles, Queen Mary's College still hasn't got the message! Demo planned for Thursday 27th October, 4pm, Bancroft Road E1NO GODS! NO MASTERS! Support Iraqi Feminist Secular Resistance!
19-10-2005 01:22
HURRICANE STAN SEVERLY AFFECTS THE INDIGENOUS COMMUNITIES OF CIPO-RFM
17-10-2005 13:27
HURRICANE STAN SEVERLY AFFECTS THE INDIGENOUS COMMUNITIES OF CIPO-RFMWE ARE PUTTING OUT AN URGENT CALL FOR HELP TO THE NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY IN SOLIDARITY WITH THE INDIGENOUS COMMUNITIES IN STRUGGLE, HARMED BY HURRICANE STAN. WAYS TO HELP ARE THE FOLLOWING:
Shayler: 'Blair worked for MI5'
17-10-2005 13:10
There has been much speculation as to how the most right wing and opowerful elements in the Labour Party used to be such left wing radicals. Did they have a change of heart? Apparently not, according to Ex MI5 Counter-Terrorism Officer David Shayler.It would also explain why the spooks have been so busy trying to blacken Shayler's name.
Mass solidarity with Gate Gourmet strikers - this Sunday!
14-10-2005 20:59
Gate Gourmet workers: 'It's not over yet!'Nestlé trade union leader murdered - Another reason to boycott Nestles
14-10-2005 10:18
Nestle trade union leader Diosdado Fortuna has been murdered and Nestlé had the motive. Nestle baby killers (baby milk) - human rights abuses.The workers has been on strike since Jan. 14, 2002 after talks with management failed. Meliton Roxas who led the union before Fortuna was also murdered, in front of the Nestlé factory.
"Day of Indigenous Resistance" picket of Colombian embassy in London (report)
14-10-2005 03:50
report from yesterday's demo, pix & vid coming soon...
