NHS workers under pressure, but fighting
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Workfare schemes are being “piloted” at a number of hospitals including West Birmingham hospital, Frinnage Hospital in South Tees and Stockport NHS foundation trust.
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Industrial news in brief
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Forty-five workers at the Enterprise Distribution Centre, which unloads paper reels from incoming vessels at the Tilbury docks in Essex, struck on Monday 7 May, the first walkout at the docks since 1989.
Industrial news in brief
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550 workers could lose their jobs as British Gas plans to close its Southampton centre.
Industrial news in brief
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Workers at BMW’s Oxford plant have voted by 97% to oppose management’s latest pay offer.
My life at work: How dare they call us “unskilled”?
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Catherine Miller works in refuse collection for a major local authority in southern England.
Carillion workers fight strike breaking
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150 GMB members at Great Western Hospital in Swindon began a further week’s strike action on Saturday 17 March, as their union pursues a legal case against employment agency SkyBlue Solutions, who it
Industrial news in brief
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Members of the Public and Commercial Services union (PCS) in Merseyside struck for three hours on Monday 5 March.
Student Worker Solidarity 2012
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Date:
12 May, 2012 - 11:00 - 17:30
Location:
Goldsmiths College, London
Description:
As students, increasing numbers of us are having to work to fund ourselves through study. Often, the only jobs available to us are low-paid, semi-casual jobs with long hours and poor conditions.
On campus, more and more students are active on workers’ rights issues, whether uniting with lecturers and other campus workers to fight cuts and course closures or building international solidarity.
How can we organise to fight for workers’ rights – in our own workplaces,on our campuses, and internationally?
Student Worker Solidarity 2012 brings together student and other young workers, student activists campaigning on workers’ rights and trade union activists to discuss organising on campus and in the workplace.
The conference is an activist gathering aimed at networking and skills-sharing;
anyone interested in workers’ rights is welcome, regardless of prior campaigning experience and knowledge and whether or not you’re currently a member of a trade union.
Student Worker Solidarity 2012 is organised by the GMB Southern Region Young Members’ Network and hosted by the GMB Goldsmiths Student Workers branch with input, speakers and stalls from other related organisations, including People & Planet.
More details, including a list of workshops, stalls and other info, will be posted soon.
Tube union could join Carillion fight
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GMB members working for contractor Carillion at Swindon’s Great Western Hospital began a further three days of strike action on Monday 27 February as their dispute over bullying bosses continues.
Thousands of jobs on the line as councils prepare new cuts
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As local councils begin setting their 2012-2013 budgets, working-class people face another round of attacks as councils across the country put jobs and services back on the chopping block.