Workers' Liberty

Unions have slowed London Underground’s drive to casualise its workforce -but by avoiding mistakes, they could have stopped it.

Birmingham City Council workers will strike again on 23 and 24 April over the council’s plans to use “single status” negotiations to cut pay and jobs.

In a shocking example of its free-market savagery, the Government is closing 28 of the 83 Remploy factories, which employ disabled workers to make work-wear products in a unionised workplace with unio

Hundreds of Rolls-Royce workers and their supporters marched through Liverpool on 8 February to protest against the company’s plans to close its plant in Bootle and transfer the work to the US, with

On Thursday the 21st of February, we will find out if some 450 members of the TGWU/Unite have voted in favour of national strike action, an event which would be a first in Shelter's 41-year history.

TGWU/Unite members in the homelessness charity Shelter have voted by an overwhelming 87% to reject a raft of proposed cuts to pay and conditions, in favour of a strike ballot.

Last month, for the first time in 37 years the US United Auto Workers (UAW) union launched a two-day nationwide strike against General Motors. The strike involved 73,000 production workers.

On Monday November 5 the National Union of Journalists are to hold a day of action — Stand Up for Journalism day — across the UK and Ireland, to highlight cuts in the media.

200 careworkers at the Fremantle Trust, which holds the contracts for care homes in Barnet, North London, took their fourth day of strike action on Thursday 20 September as part of an ongoing fight against drastic cuts in their pay and conditions.

Manchester mental health workers have held a second three day strike to protest against the victimisation of their UNISON steward, Karen Reissmann.

At TUC conference motions were passed calling for coordinated action, and use was even found for the old slogan that “unity is strength”.

GREG Charles is branch secretary of South West London Postal Communication Workers’ Union.

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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Jul 24 (IPS) - Late last month, President René Préval announced that Haiti's public telephone company, Téléco, would be privatised. Meeting recently with the Haitian Chamber of Commerce and Senator Jean Hector Anacacis of Preval's Lespwa political party, the president finalised plans to sell off the aging enterprise.

Port – au – Prince ; le 11 Juillet 2007

Communiqué de Presse

Inquiétudes de la CTH face à la gestion du pays.

Après la bataille démocratique qu’ont menée les travailleurs et le peuple haïtien avec leurs bulletins de vote aux élections du 7 février 2007 ; où ils ont accouché un gouvernement dans l’idée d’éradiquer le chômage, la misère et l’insécurité.

Port-Au-Prince; July 11, 2007 Press Release Concerns of the CTH, regarding the management of the Country.

After the democratic battle, led by the Workers and the Haitian People through their voting ballots during the elections of February 7, 2007; where they gave birth to a government conceptually eradicating unemployment, poverty and insecurity.

By Faryal Velmi

Despite the biggest demonstration seen in Lambeth for a decade, savage cuts to Adult Social Services in Lambeth were voted through on Wednesday 28 February.

The Labour run Lambeth Council voted to cut £736,000 from the ASS budget and the results will be felt harshly by local frail and isolated older and disabled people, adults with learning difficulties, people with mental ill-health and carers.

By Heather Shaw

February 14 is synonymous with slushy cards and expensive gifts but this year it has been declared as an International Day Against Burberry.

The prestigious clothing and accessories company have come under fire because of their plan to move their South Wales factory to China, axing 310 jobs. The film awards people BAFTA severed ties with its high profile sponsor under the threat of a black-tie protest outside its annual reception event. Mervyn Burnett, GMB Officer dealing with Burberry in South Wales said;

Demonstrators demand return of Aristide, the exit of MINUSTAH, rehabilitation of all civil employees illegally dismissed, and freedom for all political prisoners.

Article and Photos by Wadner Pierre for Freehaiti.net

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Cap-Haïtien, August 2, 2006 (AHP); The government workers in Cap-Haitian who were terminated declared Wednesday that they are setting a deadline of August 14 for the Haitian authorities to return them to their previous positions and pay them all back wages due since the day they were dismissed.

by Mike Southerden

ROYAL Mail's latest drive to slash jobs is continuing apace, but is meeting with rank and file resistance in some areas.

Charlie McDonald, Public and Commercial Services union DWP Group Executive (personal capacity)

TENS of thousands of Public and Commercial Services union members in the government’s biggest department, Work and Pensions, struck on 2 and 3 May against Gordon Brown’s job cuts.

The TGWU and Amicus have responded to Peugeot’s announcement of the closure of its Ryton factory in Coventry by demanding “stronger” laws making it difficult to cut jobs, laws like those that exist in France.

There was no talk of direct workers’ action — action like the French workers’ strike which have put limits to the destruction of job security in France.

“The student movement did not start with a single blow. At first it was just the students of Rennes who dared to bet that their strike would snowball, and who shut down their university, on their own for a week.

“It will be the same among the workers...”

by Charlie McDonald, local PCS branch secretary

Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) members working in dole offices and jobcentres in London have voted for a series of strikes. The first may take place on 16 November.

Charlie McDonald, PCSU DWP East London branch secretary

Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) members working in jobcentres and dole offices in London have voted for a series of strikes. The first strike is due to take place on 16th November.

TGWU and GMB members are also taking on exploitation by supermarket bosses at Morrisons in the UK. On 10 August over 8,000 of the chain’s distribution staff received ballot slips on whether to take strike action over Morrisons’ refusal to engage in meaningful negotiations.

Ansa Logistics, a firm which delivers Ford cars to showrooms, has been hit by a strike by 350 staff over pay and reduncancies.

Staff on Wessex Trains are preparing to fight against compulsory redundancies.

About three years ago, the company reclassified some supervisory and clerical grades as 'managers' - and then had the cheek to say that RMT could no longer represent them as they had a single-union deal for managers with TSSA!