The Socialist 3 November 2021

Socialist change to end climate change

Socialist change to end climate change

Fight for socialism to end climate destruction

COP26 begins - workers strike for pay

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Why I joined the Socialist Party

Fund the fight for a socialist world

Sheffield students tirelessly campaigning for socialist change

Hackney children's centres: Campaigners see through council deception

East London gentrification plans exposed

Fight for a real wage rise for all

Local government cuts set to continue - we need councillors prepared to fight

Race to top for bankers

Fight for a £15-an-hour minimum wage and an end to youth rates

Water companies put profits before protecting our environment

Tories threaten arts students: we are prepared to fight back!

Tory Universal Credit crumbs no solution to cost of living crisis

Tory plans won't fix social care

Pay freeze lifted for civil servants - prepare now for the struggle for a decent rise

NEU: Strategy needed to bring members together to take national action

Oaks Park school strike spurred on by head's lies

Scunthorpe scaffs strike into fifth week

Unite leaflets supermarkets to build support for Weetabix fire and rehire strike

Plant engineers pay dispute

Sexism, safety and the profit system

Sudan - mass protests and general strike against coup

Chile: International solidarity campaign to free political prisoners

Vaccine inequality - the ugly face of capitalism

Hunger strike in Calais for refugee rights

Protests against Sudan coup reach Britain

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Scunthorpe scaffs strike into fifth week

Scaffs picket line 1 November, photo Alistair Tice (Click to enlarge)

Alistair Tice, Yorkshire Socialist Party

Now into their fifth week of all-out strike, the Actavo scaffolders at British Steel Scunthorpe remain solid and determined in their fight for the national industry (NAECI) rate for the job.

All the strikers picket the three main gates every day from 5.30am till 2.30pm. British Steel bosses are trying to intimidate the Unite members by 'investigating' their social media!

A strike committee has been set up to involve more strikers in the running of the dispute, and are considering ways to up the ante on Actavo and British Steel bosses. A family and friends Saturday town centre march has been suggested, and also a 'solidarity with the Scaffs day' to appeal to the 900 Unite members on site to join the strikers on the picket line.

There has been support from other construction workers on nearby Keadby and Drax power stations, and the strike will be discussed at the upcoming national engineering construction shop stewards forum.

But to win, the dispute needs active support inside British Steel, to stop other scaffolding firms doing Actavo work, and for British Steel Unite stewards to lead from the front by standing on the picket lines and talking to their members not to cross.

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