This video reveals the truth behind the ‘dirty’ tactics being used to undermine the pensions of the Unilever workforce. Unilever workers in GMB, Unite and Usdaw are today on the third of ten days rolling strike action at Purfleet in Essex, Trafford Park in Manchester, Port Sunlight on Merseyside and Seacroft in Leeds in defence of their pension scheme. Amongst [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Strikes’
‘We’re All In This Together’
Dec 30th, 2011 by Owen Jones.2011 was the year the phoney war ended or – as the kids say these days, so I’m told – shit got real. When queues of anxious customers demanding their money suddenly formed outside Northern Rock over four years ago, it seemed like a slightly surreal – but one-off – disruption to normality, like an [...]
Trade unions: the big task ahead in 2012
Dec 29th, 2011 by Owen Jones.It was the year that sticking it to the status quo re-entered the mainstream after an all-too-long long hiatus. And yet 2011 showed just how far that resistance remains from mounting a serious challenge to the Tories, let alone giving capitalism much to worry about, four years into its worst crisis since the Great Depression. [...]
Unilever workers strike to defend private sector pensions
Dec 11th, 2011 by Andy Newman.Usdaw says the first 24 hour strikes held at Unilever’s manufacturing sites in Leeds and Port Sunlight on 9th December were absolutely solid. Usdaw represents workers at Unilever’s manufacturing facilities at Port Sunlight in Wirral and Seacroft in Leeds. Members of GMB and Unite based at other Unilever facilities and sites located around the country are [...]
How smart are smart strikes?
Dec 5th, 2011 by Andy Newman.Apart from making me a member of the wrong trade union, John Harris’ reporting in The Guardian of the strike day events in Salisbury, Swindon and Gloucester was very good indeed. He correctly highlights the fact that the bulk of the strikers on N30 had not previously been involved in industrial action, and the whole event was [...]
Jeremy Clarkson: the left, the right and deathwish jokes
Dec 2nd, 2011 by David Osler.Three quarters of Telegraph readers back Jeremy Clarkson in the row over his ‘execute strikers’ outburst. The Top Gear presenter’s remarks should not have been taken seriously, because he was only joking, they insist. As Freud explained over a hundred years ago, tendentious jokes are a mask for socially unacceptable feelings, not least violent hostility. There [...]
It’s not the Labour left that’s stuck in a time warp
Nov 29th, 2011 by James Bloodworth.Julian Petley, co-author of the book Culture Wars, once observed that the British press had ‘perfected a way of representing the ideas and personalities associated with socialism as so deranged and psychotic that they presented a danger to society.’ It’s no secret that New Labour was evolved in part to counteract Labour’s image problems in the [...]
The case for the strike is overwhelming
Nov 29th, 2011 by Michael Meacher.Danny Alexander’s main argument is that lower and middle earners will be better off in retirement as a result of the Government’s improved proposals announced on 2nd November. But this is a sleight of hand. What he has done is calculate that if such an earner worked longer and retired later, he or she would [...]
N30: trade unions only look dead
Nov 28th, 2011 by David Osler.Hardliners. Militants itching for a fight. Michael Gove is in no doubt about who is responsible for N30. Yet there are a couple of fundamental flaws with the education secretary’s assertion that those taking part in Wednesday’s public sector stoppage are being manipulated by an unrepresentative clique of hard left union bosses. Bookmarks Hide Sites
