January 18, 2011
Haringey residents and members of Haringey Housing Action Group joined together to take action to oppose changes to housing benefit as part of the National Protest Against Cuts to Housing & Welfare Benefits. The group leafleted and talked to residents visiting Apex House in Tottenham, as well as council staff and passersby to raise awareness […]
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Tags: housing
January 15, 2011
Join the Protest March and the Rally at the Civic Centre – Monday 17th January 5.30pm – March from Ducketts Common, Turnpike Lane tube. Called by Haringey Council Trades Unions. All welcome. Please bring banners! 6.30pm – General Rally outside the full Council meeting, Civic Centre, N22Bring friends, workmates and neighbours – and your own […]
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Tags: local services
December 4, 2010
An angry crowd of Haringey residents marched on Wood Green Topman and Boots shops this morning (Sat 4th Dec) in protest against the corporations’ tax-dodging activities and against the government’s cuts. Protesters gathered outside Boots with placards, leaflets and a banner reading “Make corporations not people pay”.
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November 2, 2010
Unite members across seven Coca-Cola Enterprise (CCE) sites – including the Edmonton one – joined last week (Wed 27 October) their fellow trade union members across Europe in staging a series of nationwide demonstrations against the company’s European-wide restructuring, which they believe is being pushed through without proper consultation with the workforce.
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Tags: workplace organising
October 27, 2010
Vodafone’s flagship store on Oxford Street has this morning (27 Oct) been occupied by people protesting at its avoidance of a £6bn tax bill having routed money through a Luxemburg subsidiary. At a time when the country is facing savage cuts it’s clear there’s one law for the rich and corporate and another for the […]
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October 19, 2010
Local residents and workers responded to a call by Haringey Alliance for Public Services, and marched to a rally at the Civic Centre in Wood Green. At the rally, on Monday 18th October, protestors called on Haringey councillors to demand adequate government funding, reject privatisation, and oppose and refuse to implement cuts – or resign.
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Tags: local services
October 5, 2010
Workers at the Coca-Cola manufacturing and bottling plant in Edmonton, London, have been on strike for three weeks. They have been offered a below inflation 2 per cent pay rise while conditions have worsened in the factory. The pension scheme is now crap and there are redundancies going on, including 19 here at Nobel Road. […]
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October 5, 2010
Haringey Alliance For Public Services Rally held outside the Civic Centre in Wood Green on 14th September 2010 with over 120 participants. The Haringey Alliance for Public Services (HAPS) was set up in June 2010 by a wide range of borough-wide organisations and individuals — including residents and community networks, trade unions and political groups.
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Tags: community
September 26, 2010
Workers at the Coca-Cola manufacturing and bottling plant in Edmonton have been on strike for two weeks. They have been offered a below inflation 2 per cent pay rise, while conditions have worsened in the factory. The pension scheme is now crap and there are redundancies going on, including 19 here at Nobel Road. This […]
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Tags: workplace organising
September 15, 2010
The workers at Coca-Cola Enterprises Edmonton bottling plant came out on strike today (Wed 15 Sep), after a one-week delay for a fruitless visit to the ACAS government department. It was a noisy picket with around 35 workers present, one half outside the factory the other under the flyover opposite. There were flags aplenty and […]
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Tags: workplace organising
