Factory occupation wins
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Irish workers who occupied their factory after being laid off have won the redundancy payments their millionaire boss initially refused to give them.
Strikes and lock-outs
Deeside picket next in Bootle lock-out fight
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Four of the 149 workers locked out of the Mayr Melnhof Packaging plant in Bootle near Liverpool have been sacked following sham disciplinary procedures.
Tories will use army to break oil strike
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Over 60% of oil tanker drivers working for seven major firms have voted to take strike action in a national ballot organised by Unite.
Sites of struggle: organising in construction
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On 4 March 2012, the long-held suspicions of hundreds of trade union activists in the construction industry were confirmed when it was revealed that the British state had been colluding with construction contractors to prevent union activists from getting work.
"The Take" (Naomi Klein film on Argentine factory occupation)
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Date:
15 February, 2006 - 18:20
Location:
Rex Cinema, 21 Rupert Street, London W1. Tickets bookable online.
Description:
Two showings of "The Take" (Naomi Klein, Avi Lewis) about the 'recovered factory movement' in Argentina (89 minutes) plus a short film "An Interview with Naomi Klein and Avi Lewis" (17 minutes), about the making of the film plus a meeting with the representative of the Zanon committee, from Argentina.
£8 and £6 (concessions)
First screening of the Take: 6.20, second screening: 8.40
Meeting and screening of the short film: both at 7.50 - meeting in the bar, short film in the cinema.
More details: 07903 584 278.
Two showings of "The Take" (Naomi Klein, Avi Lewis) about the 'recovered factory movement' in Argentina (89 minutes) plus a short film "An Interview with Naomi Klein and Avi Lewis" (17 minutes), about the making of the film plus a meeting with the representative of the Zanon committee, from Argentina.
PCS rally
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Date:
5 November, 2004 - 12:00
Location:
Westminster Cathedral Hall, Victoria St, London
Description:
Strikers' rally during PCS's one-day strike against job cuts, threats to pension rights, and poverty wages.
Strikers' rally during PCS's one-day strike against job cuts, threats to pension rights, and poverty wages.
London cleaners win again
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The recent wave of cleaners’ militancy in London is continuing, winning a new victory at Senate House in Bloomsbury.
What Is a Marxist Perspective?
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What We Are And What We Must Become [SECTION 3]
VULGAR MATERIALISM AND PLATONIC PERSPECTIVES
By Rachel Lever, Phil Semp and Sean Matgamna
When Murdoch smashed the unions
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In 1986-7 5,500 print production workers were sacked for striking against an attempt to impose new draconian terms and conditions at Rupert Murdoch’s new, then state-of-the-art, printing plant.
Councils join June 30 strike
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Council workers in Birmingham and Doncaster could join the mass public sector strike action on 30 June, as public sector union Unison announced ballots that could see 15,000 workers take strike action.