Archive for August 2007
9 August 2007
Railworkers strike for jobs and safety
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RMT strike in Wales |
9 August 2007
Friday 24 - Monday 27 August, Danbury Youth Camp, Essex This year's summer camp will be an excellent opportunity for members and supporters of the Socialist Party to enjoy a weekend of discussion, debate and relaxation with like-minded people...
9 August 2007
Welfare Green Paper: Making profit out of poverty
THE GOVERNMENT'S Green Paper - Work, Better Off; Next Steps to Full Employment - rolls back many rights and benefits that have formed the basis of Britain's welfare state for 65 years... By Adam Dudley
9 August 2007
FOLLOWING A huge public demonstration last year, campaigners in Kendal were delighted when the Primary Care Trust decided not to go ahead with the discriminatory closure of the only local mental health in-patient unit...
9 August 2007
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Geoff Wright, campaigning in Leicester against health cuts affecting people with mobility problems |
9 August 2007
Save our NHS: Stop fat cat robbery
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Health workers demonstrate in Hackney, photo Paul Mattsson |
Jon Smith, GMB branch secretary, Sheffield Children's Hospital, writes (in a personal capacity)
9 August 2007
Blood Service restructuring chaos
NATIONAL BLOOD Service workers have been amazed to discover that their Chief Executive, Martin Gorham, is stepping down... By An Amicus member
9 August 2007
Local government pay dispute - No to 2%!
IN MARCH 2007 Gordon Brown announced that he was capping public-sector pay awards at 2%... By Marc Glasscoe, Lincoln City UNISON, personal capacity
9 August 2007
Care workers stand firm (report 9/08/07)
Glasgow : "This strike is solid and we are staying out for all 600" said Ann of the Gorbals area team... By Ian Leech SCW UNISON steward (Personal capacity)
9 August 2007
Campaigners force Labour councillors to back off
How far will they go? OPPOSITION TO council plans to shut schools and leisure centres in Cardiff pushed local Labour councillors into retreat when over fifty people attended a meeting organised by the Socialist Party on 25 July in Llanrumney... By Ross Saunders
9 August 2007
Devon: PUBLIC SUPPORT for the Communication Workers Union (CWU) action remains strong and in Bideford on 2 August only four out of 80 crossed the lines and scabbed... By Sean Brogan
9 August 2007
Exchanging socialist ideas worldwide
THE COMMITTEE for a Workers' International (CWI) held its annual summer school in Belgium. The socialist gives here some excerpts of the reports given by its sister European sections.
9 August 2007
Floods: Profits rise, workers pay
Flood waters have subsided in most areas and electricity has been restored. Running water has been returned to most homes in the county, but we can't drink it, wash-up in it nor clean our teeth with it yet... By John Ewers, Gloucestershire Socialist Party
9 August 2007
Jean Charles de Menezes: Security forces not held to account
AN INVESTIGATION by the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) into the fatal shooting of Brazilian migrant worker, Jean Charles de Menezes, in Stockwell tube station by police in July 2005 has concluded that the counter-terrorism chief Andy Hayman 'misled the public'... By Dave Carr
9 August 2007
Solidarity with postal workers
SINCE JULY, Royal Mail workers in the Communication Workers Union have been taking action in defence of the postal service as a public service... By Bill Mullins, Socialist Party trade union organiser
10 August 2007
TWO HUNDRED people packed out Cross Street Chapel on 25 July to show support for victimised health worker Karen Reissman... By Hugh Caffrey, Manchester
10 August 2007
One law for the rich...: BUDGET CUTS at the Health and Safety Executive (HSE - part of the Department for Work and Pensions) mean that a growing number of major accidents at work are not being investigated...
14 August 2007
Glasgow Social Care Workers win clear victory
"Pay hike joy for striking council staff" was the headline of the Glasgow Evening Times....
24 August 2007
World economy fundamentally unsound
Editorial: Over the last week, billions of pounds have been wiped off share values worldwide as stock markets plunged...
24 August 2007
NGH hospital Sheffield: Pay cuts "the thin end of the wedge"
TO USE New Labour Health Secretary Alan Johnson's own words, staff working in bulk stores at Sheffield's Northern General Hospital are definitely "not happy bunnies"... By Alistair Tice
24 August 2007
THOUSANDS OF flood victims in Tewkesbury, the epicentre of Gloucestershire's mini-Katrina, joined last week's march called by the town council... By Chris Moore
24 August 2007
Boris Johnson - buffoon or bonus for Tories?
TORY LEADER David Cameron believes he scored a coup by convincing Boris Johnson to stand for London mayor... By Paula Mitchell
24 August 2007
With over 325 million copies of all seven books sold worldwide, the last four books have also been, consecutively, the fastest selling in history...Suzanne Beishon asks: Why?
24 August 2007
Postal dispute: If talks don't deliver - escalate the action
Two 24-hour strikes, followed by sectional action has forced Royal Mail management into negotiations with the Communication Workers' Union (CWU)... By Jane James
24 August 2007
Belfast airport workers' victory
Five years after being sacked by security firm ICTS for striking over pay, 23 airport workers have won an industrial tribunal.
24 August 2007
National Shop Stewards Network
TUC conference fringe meeting
Tuesday 11 September
5.30pm, the Quality Hotel, West Street, Brighton.
Speakers include: Bob Crow, general secretary RMT, Chris Baugh, assistant general secretary PCS, Glenn Kelly, UNISON national executive, personal capacity, Rob Williams, convenor, Visteon car plant, Dave Chapple, CWU postal sector.
For more information see: www.shopstewards.net
24 August 2007
Glasgow council workers' victory: United strike action wins
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Glasgow Social Workers on strike , photo Duncan Brown |
After 20 days of all-out, indefinite strike action, over 600 Glasgow social care workers won a clear victory.
"Pay hike joy for striking council staff" was the headline in a recent issue of Glasgow's Evening Times..."
Brian Smith, UNISON secretary Glasgow social work services, writes in a personal capacity.
30 August 2007
Massive deprivation in Norris Green, Liverpool
The press and TV have been full of glaring headlines about crime in Liverpool following the death of 11 year old Rhys Jones... By Tony Aitman
30 August 2007
Horror and heartbreak in Croxteth - What is the cause? What is the answer?
The appalling murder of young Rhys Jones has generated outrage, disbelief, anger and a demand for a solution to the brutalisation of a section of youth... By Tony Mulhearn
30 August 2007
A WEEK of protests against the proposed third runway at Heathrow airport culminated on 19 August in a demonstration along the proposed site and a blockade of Heathrow operator BAA's headquarters.... By Neil Cafferky
30 August 2007
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Heathrow airport runway protest, photo Marc Vallée |
30 August 2007
Review: John Pilger's first cinema-released documentary is a damning indictment of US policy in Latin America, past and present. ... By Edd Mustill
30 August 2007
STATEMENTS SUCH as "the working class has disappeared" or "the barriers between the classes no longer exist" have been repeated for many years...
9 Mar Bristol North Socialist Party: Socialist feminism
9 Mar Caerphilly & RCT Socialist Party: A socialist charter for women in the pandemic
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