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Remploy employees in the company’s factories in Glasgow and Chesterfield struck for 24 hours last Thursday (26 January) in protest at moves to introduce a two-tier workforce and privatise the company.
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Workers at food and cleaning products manufacturer Unilever have begun an 11-day programme of rolling strike action at sites across the UK in an attempt to defeat bosses’ plans to scrap their final-salary pension schemes. It is the joint strategy of the three unions involved: Unite, USDAW and the GMB.
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Workers at two Remploy sites will strike on 26 January against the semi-privatisation of their factories.
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Outside the American Dry Cleaners branch, 38 Upper St Upper Street, Islington
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Cock Tavern, Phoenix Road, near Kings X, London
Meeting called by the workers in dispute with contractors Laing O'Rourke over its plan to cut wages.
Meeting called by the workers in dispute with contractors Laing O'Rourke over its plan to cut wages.
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The headline media reports - that is, the story as received by the big majority of public sector workers - are that most unions have accepted the 19 December Government terms on public sector pensions, quit the campaign, and settled down to negotiate fine detail. A closer look at union statements [below] indicates that many unions have not quite accepted the Government terms. That means the sell-out can be stopped. It also means something else, though.
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Public sector union committees, branches, and workplace groups should call emergency meetings to reject the sell-out on pensions outlined at the TUC public sector group meeting on 19 December.
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Unilever workers struck for a day on Friday 9 December as part of their battle to defend their pensions.
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A strike by thousands of workers at Unilever (which manufactures well-known food products including Marmite and other household goods) could be the first major set-piece pensions battle in the private sector, after Unite, GMB and USDAW all returned massive majorities for strike action.
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Aviation workers at Liverpool John Lennon Airport will strike on Wednesday 23 November as part of a rolling programme of action which will continue into December.
