Last week in Doncaster, after two days of strike action, bin-workers in Unite the union employed by Sita UK “voted 70-50 to accept a revised pay offer and return to work.” This is excellent news, and “will give confidence to a group of workers only recently unionised and still in the process of building a […]
Last year at RF Brookes, a pie and pizza factory in South Wigston, it was announced that four hundred of their 720 employees would be made redundant (in two phases in September 2011 and June 2012). Under the ownership of Premier Foods, the first set of lay-offs went according to plan, with workers paid two […]
Yesterday, concerned parents and PCS union members took part in a lunchtime protest against the abrupt decision by HRMC management to terminate their contract with Nippers Nursery, a private sector nursery provider. Similar protests took place around the country with HMRC nursery’s also being axed in Manchester, Wolverhampton, Leeds; Nottingham, Blackburn, Cardiff, and Glasgow. […]
Last week some 1,200 workers took four days of strike action at four of Argos’ key regional distribution sites. This was in opposition to Argos’ decision to end their final salary pension scheme. If management does not back down, more industrial action will certainly be forthcoming. Given the recalcitrant nature of such ruling class managers, […]
July 2008: On 17 July Argos workers in the Unite union launched a strike against an insulting pay offer of 3.8%, and the employer’s attempt to move them from weekly to monthly pay without any compensation. After a solid start to the strike it was eventually called off when Argos management revised their earlier pay […]
In South Africa the Lonmin struggle continues… with autopsy reports of the police-led massacre now conclusively demonstrating that “most of the people were fleeing from the police when they got killed.” If this was not bad enough, the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) even initiated proceedings to use ‘common purpose’ Apartheid-era legislation to prosecute 270 of […]
According to their web site, “Atos is an international information technology services company with annual 2011 pro forma revenue of EUR 8.5 billion and 74,000 employees in 48 countries.” In addition to being major sponsors of the Paralympics, their UK business division, Atos Healthcare, “makes big profits out of removing disabled people from benefits through […]
Post written by Lucy Stokes Between 27th and 31st August 2012, Disabled People Against Cuts (DPAC) have organized the ATOS Games, a week of protest actions against ATOS — a controversial company who are one of the major sponsors of the Paralympics. ATOS are currently in receipt of a £100 million contract from the government […]
Platinum mining reaps colossal profits for a few, which is derived from the systematic abuse of many others… the others being workers who live in make-shift shacks and daily risk their lives in the employ of a depraved ruling class which craves only precious minerals and broken backs. South African political elites, whether members of […]
Public services should never be run for private profit; not prisons, not armed forces, nor education or healthcare. Nevertheless capitalist vultures pay no mind to such humane advice and are working hand-in-hand with political elites to undermine the hard-won gains of the working class. Taking his cue from New Labour, former Goldman Sachs merchant banker […]
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