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Gate Gourmet

The dispute at Heathrow airport in 2005, over the sacking of catering workers by BA contractor Gate Gourmet


Why won’t the unions fight for a workers’ party?

Labour Party
Author: 
Sean Matgamna

Dear Brother Woodley,


Grangemouth Pension Dispute Continues

Amicus

A fortnight after the Grangemouth oil refinery was shut down by strike action, talks continue between refinery owners (INEOS) and UNITE.

The strike by the 1,200 union members was in defence of the refinery’s final salary pension scheme, inherited by INEOS from the refinery’s previous owners (BP).


Shelter strikes again on 24-25 April

Public sector pay battle 2007-8

Workers in the housing charity Shelter are on strike again on 24-25 April against enforced cuts in pay and conditions. Previous strikes on 5 and 10 March forced Shelter bosses, who at first insisted that they would never negotiate, to put the cuts on hold and talk at ACAS. But their ACAS offer was only a one-off “compensation” payment.


Birmingham to strike 23-24 April

Amicus

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.


Workers' Liberty bulletin on Shelter ballot

TGWU

A call for Shelter workers to vote on in the ballot on the Shelter bosses' offer of a (small) lump-sum payment in return for substantial cuts in pay and increases in hours.


Shelter union reps recommend rejection of bosses' offer

Housing
Author: 
Gerry Bates

TGWU-Unite reps in the housing organisation Shelter are recommending rejection in a ballot of workers, due to start on Wednesday 26 March, of the offer made in ACAS talks by Shelter bosses on a pay-and-hours dispute.


Shelter bosses back down (partly)

Housing
Author: 
Gerry Bates

After two days of strike action, bosses at Shelter, an organisation providing services to the homeless, have agreed to put "on hold" their plans to cut workers' pay and conditions.


From charity to capitalist contractor?

Pay, hours, conditions

On Wednesday 5 March 450 members of Unite union who work at Shelter struck for the first time in the housing charity’s 41 year history. A Shelter worker explains the background.


RMT, TGWU-Unite mobilise to back Iranian trade unionists

Ossanloo
Author: 
Colin Foster

In an effort unusual for British unions, the rail union RMT and the TGWU mobilised members on Thursday 6 March to leaflet at several rail stations in support of the jailed Iranian trade unionists Mansour Ossanloo and Mahmoud Salehi.


Motion for a special conference of Unite

Amicus

[Activists in the Amicus bit of Unite may wish to omit the reference to the TGWU Biennial Delegate Conference]

We note the statement from the General Executive Committee put to the Biennial Delegate Conference of the TGWU section of Unite in July 2007.


Shelter workers vote on national strike

TGWU

On Thursday 21 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.


Stop Rolls-Royce closure on Merseyside!

Defending jobs

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


Shelter Staff Await Strike Ballot Result

Housing
Author: 
A TGWU Member

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.


Remploy workers to strike 6-7 February

Amicus

The Remploy factories in Aintree and Birkenhead (CCU) are taking strike action on 6th and 7th February.


UNITE to ballot workers at Shelter

Unions & politics
Author: 
A TGWU member

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.


Organising Tube Cleaners

Sweatshops

London Underground cleaners in the RMT continue to organise. About three weeks ago, cleaning staff at Morden Underground depot succeeded in fighting their management's imposition of a new 7-day a week roster, which would have allowed them no days off!


If it were made up, you'd dismiss it as too far-fetched....

Unions & politics
Author: 
Martin Thomas

The front page of the new issue of the TGWU paper Record looks like an improbably heavy-handed attempt to satirise the new relationship between the unions and the Labour Party leadership after Bournemouth.


Unite union demonstration at Labour Party conference

Amicus
23 Sep 2007 - 1:00pm
description:

Demanding: * an end to off-shoring - quality, secure jobs for all
* to ensure equal rights for agency workers - and trade unionfreedom for all
* to close the yawning wealth gap
* to deliver fair pay to public sector workers and quality, publicly provided health and education for all
* to free councils to build decent housing for all
http://www.amicustheunion.org/labourPartySite/whats%20happening.aspx

Location:
Assemble Meyrick Park, Bournemouth

Mick Cashman, 1959-2007

Obituaries

By John Bloxam

On 18 July Mick Cashman died, aged just 48.

For over a decade until the early 1990s, he was a member of the AWL’s predecessor organisations and supporter of Workers’ Action and Socialist Organiser.


Industrial reports: Sodexho, Metronet, Bakerloo line, Salford council

Rail unions

Solidarity wins against Sodexho

Catering staff at Haggerston School in Hackney, with the support of NUT and UNISON members, have forced a pay increase from their multi-national bosses Sodexho, taking their below minimum wage £4.51 per hour to £9. On their first day of strike action 35 teachers and two technicians refused to cross their picket line, forcing the school to send students home; in fact, many students joined the picket. Sodexho backed down with a second strike day planned.


TGWU meets for the last time

TGWU

By a conference delegate

Members of the TGWU gathered in Brighton at the beginning of July for the last ever T&G Biennial Delegates’ Conference.

The first day of the conference started with an opening address from newly elected chair Brenda Sanders. This is the first time in the history of the T&G that there has been a woman chair.


Dockland Buses/Go-ahead London busworkers fight back

TGWU

London Bus Workers DEMO unite

join bus workers in a major demo to demand
PROPER TOILET FACILITIES

Thurday 23 August 2007

Assemble at Victoria Coach Station 11.30 am.

This is start of the union organised (by activists) London bus campian. Drivers are fed up with bad conditions, long hours and crap pay, this is the start to arganise the 28,000 london bus drivers for victory


Defend Victimised Teachers

Against victimisation

35 teachers at Haggerston School in Hackney face disciplinary action for refusing to cross a Unite!/T&G picket line of striking school meals workers. You can read all about it on Hackney TUC's website. Below is an email I have just sent to the head teacher.


TGWU backs boycott of Israel

Boycott Israel?

The Biennial Delegate Conference of the TGWU section of Unite voted on Wednesday 4 July to support a "boycott of Israeli products and goods".


TGWU fires warning shot in battle over the rights of Labour conference

Labour Party

A statement from the General Executive Committee to be put to the Biennial Delegate Conference of the TGWU section of Unite on Thursday 5 July calls for "an end to the manipulation of [Labour Party] conference by the party leadership and the ignoring of conference decisions by ministers". It also says that "the right of party conference to make party policy needs to be upheld and respected."


Solidarity yes, boycott no: fringe meeting at TGWU conference

TGWU
4 Jul 2007 - 5:30pm
4 Jul 2007 - 7:00pm
description:

Yes to solidarity with the Palestinians, no to boycott of Israel

Location:
Room 3, Friends Meeting House, Ship Street, Brighton

Refuse workers in Salford strike over casual labour

Amicus

On 27 June refuse workers in Salford mounted a 24-hour strike action in protest at the council's exploitation of agency staff.


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