Workers' organisation key to safety at sea
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The causes of the tragic capsizing of the cruise liner Costa Concordia will hopefully soon be found.
Health & safety
Protest against the government’s plan to scrap Section 12 fire safety laws
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Date:
26 November, 2005 - 11:00
Location:
Kings Cross station, London
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Called by RMT
Called by RMT
The greed for profit
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The four workers killed at Gleison Colliery in the Swansea Valley worked at a small “drift” mine, one of very few left in Wales.
Briefing: Refusal to Work on the Grounds of Safety
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A briefing from 'Off The Rails' about our legal right to refuse to work on safety grounds and some examples of where rail workers have exercised this right.
France: bosses bully workers to death
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It sounds so fantastically morbid you would be forgiven for thinking we have made it up. But the statistics show that job insecurity and bullying at work are leading increasing numbers of French workers to take their own lives.
Snowed in and frozen out
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The heavy snowfall at the beginning of February prevented many people from attending work.
Tube bosses’ attacks slowed but not stopped
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Unions have slowed London Underground’s drive to casualise its workforce -but by avoiding mistakes, they could have stopped it.
Defend Gyles Henry
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London Underground has sacked a worker at London Bridge over an alleged incident with a customer. But the company’s only “evidence” against Gyles is the say-so of a different customer who admitted there was no violence involved, but speculated that there might have been! RMT is balloting members for industrial action. Vote Yes! More: www.workersliberty.org/tube.
Refusing To Work On Safety Grounds
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Rail workers know that our employers will risk life and limb (ours, not theirs!) to keep the trains running and the cash coming in. We can not trust them to protect us at work - we have to rely on ourselves.
Smoking ban: New Labour doesn’t care about workers' health!
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By Sofie Buckland
Sunday 1 July saw the introduction of the controversial “smoking ban”, outlawing smoking in “enclosed public spaces” (train station platforms as well as buildings, for example) and workplaces. As a smoker it’s a little irritating to no longer be able to enjoy a smoke with a pint, but there’s little justification socialists can give for not supporting a ban — passive smoking is really quite obviously harmful, whatever the tobacco company sponsored research might say, and workers shouldn’t be subject to it on the job.