GMB General Secretary Paul Kenny is to lead a march and demonstration of GMB members employed by Brighton & Hove City Council who will be striking over proposed cuts to their take home pay. Saturday 15 June 2013, 11:30 AM Assemble at Cityclean Depot, Upper Hollingdean Road, Brighton, BN1 7GA Meanwhile, GMB has welcomed a commitment […]
Posts Tagged ‘Strikes’
Brighton Green council planning strike busting measures
Jun 5th, 2013 by Newsdesk.The Green party in Brighton & Hove is planning ‘contingency measures’ in an attempt to bust a strike in Brighton by GMB members seeking to defend themselves from cuts in take home pay of up to £4000 a year. Yesterday GMB wrote to the Green leader of the Council, Jason Kitcat, to warn him that the use of agency […]
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First anniversary of GMB strike action against Carillion
Feb 14th, 2013 by Andy Newman.Today is the anniversary of the first of 22 days of strike action by GMB members at the Great Western Hospital (GWH) in Swindon, one of the earliest Private Finance Initiative (PFI) build and operate hospitals, and only the second opened by Carillion. This long running industrial dispute between the union and Carillion, over the […]
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General Strike: let’s not sleepwalk into a self-inflicted defeat
Jan 14th, 2013 by Andy Newman.I was interested to see today’s front page of the Morning Star, with the report by Tony Patey about McCluskey’s call for “a campaign of “civil disobedience” in protest against government austerity measures, reportedly saying workers and unions have a duty to stand and fight. According to the Star, in a television interview, McCluskey pledged […]
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On this day: the biggest women’s strike ever
Nov 23rd, 2012 by Jon Lansman.On this day, 23 November 1909, began a strike known as the Uprising of the 20,000. Over 20,000 Yiddish-speaking immigrants, mostly young women in their teens and twenties, launched a strike in New York’s garment industry. The strike lasted 11 weeks and remains the largest known strike by women in history. The morning after the […]
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The practicality of a general strike
Oct 24th, 2012 by Andy Newman.Len McCluskey appeared to throw down the gauntlet at the Hyde Park rally following last Saturday’s march in London. He is reported in the Morning Star to have said: “When the horrific welfare cuts bite in April the situation will be even worse, but we should take heart from this demonstration because we represent millions and […]
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TUC: building for a winter of mild petulance
Sep 13th, 2012 by David Osler.Much in the way that the Community Shield heralds the return of footie after ever-briefer summer lulls, the Trades Union Congress conference traditionally acts as curtain-raiser for the political year ahead. Truth be told, it has long been a rather dismal dull affair. But this year it has generated some excitement on tabloid right and […]
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Labour militancy at a turning point?
Jul 5th, 2012 by Michael Burke.The number of industrial disputes in Britain rose in the latest 12-month period. Just under 1.4 million days were lost in various actions. By far the most important of these was the November co-ordinated day of action on pensions, which account for just under 1million of the total days lost. The level of disputes can […]
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Spanish Miners start march to Madrid
Jun 23rd, 2012 by Tom Gill.Around 200 Spanish miners set out Friday on a march set to culminate July 11 in Madrid with a protest against government plans to slash subsidies to the coal sector. Family, friends and neighbours gathered in several towns in the northern regions of Asturias and Leon and the east-central region of Teruel to give the […]
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Tory plan to axe strikers’ benefits vindictive & discriminates against low-paid
Jun 18th, 2012 by Michael Meacher.Ian Duncan Smith (IDS), fresh from supporting corrupt and ineffective welfare-to-work companies like A4E, chopping disability living alowance and incapacity benefit for up to a million disabled persons, extending unpaid mandatory work schemes, and forcing 100,000 families out of their homes through cuts in housing benefit – all part of the government’s overall plan to […]
