15 May 2013

Yeadon Mill strike 1913

Striking back at greedy bosses: One hundred years ago, mill workers in Yeadon and Guiseley, West Yorkshire, took heroic strike action over pay and working hours, writes Iain Dalton, Yorkshire Socialist Party.

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18 January 2012

John Lewis economy: another fantasy from Corporal Clegg

Lib Dem leader and deputy prime minister Nick Clegg has outlined his vision of a 'John Lewis economy' saying that businesses owned by their staff are more dynamic and have higher morale, writes Elaine Brunskill.

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Manningham Mills

27 April 2011

Manningham Mills 1890-1891: A strike that changed Britain's unions

On 27 April 1891, 120 years ago, the great Manningham Mills strike of Bradford textile workers ended after nearly 19 weeks...

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4 August 2010

Garment workers demand a living wage

Thousands of garment workers in Bangladesh took to the streets of Dhaka to dismiss the recently announced increase in the minimum wage as completely inadequate...

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15 April 2009

Fury at John Lewis' trickery

Stead McAlpin: THE SIXTY workers in Carlisle sacked by textile and dyeing company Stead McAlpin see the similarities of their situation to that of sacked Visteon workers, writes Elaine Brunskill.

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23 July 2008

Pakistan: 50,000 textile workers strike

MORE THAN 250,000 power looms remained closed for four days in Pakistan's third largest city, Faisalabad, the hub of the country's textile industry, writes Khalid Bhatti, Trade Union Rights Campaign of Pakistan (TURCP), Faisalabad.

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12 February 2005

Slovakia: Multinational victimises trade unionists

JOZEF KRNCAN has been made redundant twice by Austrian based multinational Neusiedler/Mondi...

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