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23 February 2022
Scunny scaffs action forces bosses to the table
16 weeks of indefinite strike action by the scaffolders at British Steel Scunthorpe, solidarity strike action by other construction workers, and an extensive leverage campaign against company bosses and scabbing companies, have forced employer Actavo back to the negotiating table
9 February 2022
Scunthorpe scaffs mark 100 days of strike action with protests
100 days! By the time you read this, that's how long the scaffolders will have been on strike against their contractor Actavo working at British Steel Scunthorpe. In a dispute going back three years,
2 February 2022
Scunny scaffs strike restarts with a bang, barricades and a win!
Scunthorpe scaffolders' first week of renewed strike action in 2022 (after successfully reballoting following 12 weeks of strike action before Christmas) kicked off with a real bang - with flares, barricades and a win!
19 January 2022
Scunthorpe scaffs resume indefinite strike action
The 61 scaffolders employed by contractor Actavo, working on the British Steel works at Scunthorpe, will resume indefinite strike action on 26 January
6 January 2022
Scunny scaffs enter twelfth week of strike action
Before Christmas, the 60 or so scaffolders who work at British Steel Scunthorpe finished their twelfth week of strike action with a protest demonstration outside the offices of their contractor, Actavo, in Wakefield
1 December 2021
Welcome support for striking Scunthorpe scaffolders
Scunthorpe scaffolders, now in their ninth week of strike action, were given a huge boost by the visit of Unite general secretary Sharon Graham to the picket line at British Steel
17 November 2021
Striking Scunthorpe steel scaffs up the ante
Visiting the Scunthorpe scaffolders' picket line, who are fighting for agreed trade union rates of pay, on 15 November it was immediately obvious that the strikers have upped the ante against their contractor Actavo at British Steel
10 November 2021
Support for all-out scaffs strike spreads
News of the all-out strike by 60 scaffolders employed by contractor Actavo at British Steel in Scunthorpe is spreading, with Danish scaffs sending solidarity
3 November 2021
Scunthorpe scaffs strike into fifth week
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.
13 October 2021
60 steelworks scaffs march in second week of all-out strike
The second week of the all-out strike by Unite the Union, involving around 60 scaffolders, got off to a flying start
3 August 2021
Tory government nationalises Sheffield steel plant
For years Forgemasters has teetered on the brink, being subject to takeovers and government bailouts.
31 March 2021
Nationalise Liberty Steel to save jobs
Liberty Steel, employing 5,000 workers, mainly located in Rotherham, has gone bust. The government has rejected a £170 million bailout demand from its tycoon boss Sanjeev Gupta.
26 January 2021
Steel site scaffolders strike for the 'rate of the job'
Scaffolders at the British Steel site in Scunthorpe are in a dispute over pay.
14 November 2020
Fight Tata Steel jobs threat - nationalise now!
Once again the jobs of thousands of Tata UK steelworkers are threatened
22 July 2020
Nationalise Tata Steel to save jobs
Media reports that Tata Steel in Port Talbot is considering shutting down its two blast furnaces, and replacing them with 'greener' electric arc furnaces, which would require far less workers, have provoked anger and panic among the workforce, steel unions, and local politicians.
28 November 2019
Tata announces 1,000 job cuts - Steel unions must fight for every job!
Tata has given its steel workers the worst possible Xmas message
16 October 2019
Wales: Hundreds march to save the Orb works
On 12 October steelworkers from all over Britain joined hundreds of Orb workers and their families on an impressive march through Newport, South Wales, to demand that the Tata Orb steelworks in the city is saved.
24 May 2019
Save steel jobs: Demand socialist nationalisation
British Steel, the UK's second biggest steel firm, has been taken into compulsory liquidation
22 May 2019
British Steel threatened closure
The private steel producer could go under, threatening 5,000 jobs at its Scunthorpe and Teesside plants and a further 20,000 jobs in the supply chain
6 June 2018
Donald Trump, in rebooting his presidential campaign slogan to "Make America Great Again" is attempting to do this on the backs of the rest of the world, by introducing tariffs on US imports.
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