November 17, 2009
Ford Visteon Workers occupation and picket April/May 2009 – the role and activities of the Enfield Support Group The Ford Visteon Workers (Enfield) Support Group (SG) was formed to give solidarity and support to the Enfield Ford Visteon workers who first occupied, then picketed their factory for six weeks in April/May 2009. A few members of […]
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October 20, 2009
Postal workers, including all those in Haringey, are defending their wages and conditions, defending the Post Office as a public service against privatisation, and defending the right of workers to organise in the face of management bullying and efforts to break the Union. Royal Mail, the Government and most of the media were on the […]
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June 9, 2009
Since March this year, RMT (tube workers’ union) has been initiating an industrial action campaign for decent pay, against job cuts, and to stop management persecuting staff and breaking their own policies. They will be holding a 48-hour strike from 7pm on Tues 9 June to 7pm on Thurs 11 June.
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April 3, 2009
Workers at car parts manufacturer Visteon have occupied the Enfield plant. On Tuesday 31st March, the management of the Ford Visteon plant called a general assembly and told people that they would have to leave their workplace immediately. The workers were told to fetch their personal belongings the next day at 10am, but when they […]
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February 15, 2009
The recent wildcat strikes, which began at the Lindsey oil refinery, were based on legitimate demands. Just a small amount of research would reveal this. However, rather than addressing real issues, politicians and the media have chosen to systematically accuse the strikers of being racist. Deconstructing the myth and re-establishing a few truths This will […]
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December 8, 2008
In June and July this year over 700 cleaners on London Underground organised by the RMT union went on strike for a living wage and other demands, in one of the first actions by mainly illegal migrant workers that this country has ever seen. Previously kept in silence and poverty pay by brutal employers, ISS, […]
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September 10, 2008
The picket on 29 August 2008 of the bus depot on Marsh Lane, N17, by Northumberland Park station, was pretty solid for the first strike of bus drivers for many years. On approach, you could see the whole junction packed out with the yellow high visibility coats of the drivers and other workers – about […]
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August 17, 2008
On Tuesday 12th August, there was a walkout of Benefits and Local Taxation staff after two union reps were suspended and the branch secretary put under investigation for allegedly calling people scabs when they crossed picket lines during the recent local government workers’ strike in July. The UNISON branch meeting the following day unanimously passed […]
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August 1, 2008
The five-week strike at the Arnaouti pitta bakery in Tottenham, north London in April/May 1997 had to be seen in the context of other disputes in this area, including JJ Fast Foods dispute in 1995/6. These disputes, several short-lived walk-outs and a factory occupation (Tudor Gold) have taken place amongst low-paid immigrant and refugee workers. […]
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August 1, 2008
Workers at J.J. Fast Foods, a distribution company in Tottenham, North London, worked 60-70 hour weeks for a pittance. Six years before the strike, newly employed workers were paid £180. By the time of the dispute they were being paid £130. There was no overtime pay, no holiday pay, no sick pay. Wages had been […]
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