With the breathtaking announcement of the government’s plans to close or sell-off the 54 factories that provide employment for disabled workers, on the 19th and 26th of July disabled workers across the country will be taking strike action (from 6am onwards) to oppose the coalition’s brutal attacks on their livelihoods. Please join the Socialist Party […]
In their relentless search for profits the most natural way that Britain’s largest food manufacturers bolster their bank balances is by viciously attacking the pay and conditions of their employees, and of course by sacking staff. At present, managements’ excuse for such aggression is the so-called financial crisis. Little mention is made of the fact […]
Tory “human rights” advocate Joanna Lumley presently serves as M&S’s high profile ambassador for PlanA, which is the name for their latest highly publicised ethical trading initiative. Yet given the ongoing attacks on the pay and conditions of the employees of M&S’s major suppliers here in Leicester – that is, at the RF Brookes factory […]
Veolia is a huge multinational corporation, employing in excess of 330,000 people worldwide. Like all capitalist enterprises, Veolia, in its bloodsucking pursuit of profits, is engaged in a perpetual struggle to force down its most vulnerable employees wages and conditions. This improves profit margins, further increases the gap between the richest and poorest in society, […]
And if ever, by some unlucky chance, anything unpleasant should somehow happen, why, there’s always soma to give you a holiday from the facts. And there’s always soma to calm your anger, to reconcile you to your enemies, to make you patient and long-suffering. – Aldous Huxley, Brave New World. Humans like to help one […]
RF Brookes workers in Leicester, members of BFAWU, the bakery workers union, have been taking discontinuous strike action in recent weeks against a vicious management who had announced 190 redundancies. At the same time, the bosses are reneging on the previously agreed redundancy package. Some workers, if they lose their jobs, also stand to lose […]
Yesterday, members of the Sheffield branch of the Socialist Party — who have been supporting the Sova recycling workers fight against cuts in jobs, hours and pay — organised a protest picket against the haulage company that has been hired to break the Sova workers outstanding and indefinite all-out strike. This action was undertaken in solidarity with the striking GMB members who had been advised that it is illegal to secondary picket under the existing anti-trade union laws.
Michael Barker reports on tax avoidance by the rich, including 2 Sisters Food Group boss Baljinder Boparan, the ongoing dispute at the 2 Sisters owned RF Brookes factory in Leicester, and the lessons to be learned from the MMP Bootle workers.
Today, hundreds of HM Revenue and Customs staff are taking part in strike action in Leicester. The action is part of the Public and Commercial Services Union’s sustained campaign to defend jobs and services, vital for tax justice, from cutbacks and privatisation. They join up to 55’000 other PCS members in HMRC taking action across […]
Solidarity with UNITE, PCS and UCU members taking action on May 10th. Go down to a local picket line and give the strikers your support this morning. There will be a rally with speakers from striking unions at the Oddfellows Club on Humberstone Gate at 12 noon (this is not hosted by Leicester Socialist Party). Tuesday 15th May – […]
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