The TUC are meeting for the annual conference in Brighton on the 9th September. The Socialist Party supports the call of the National Shop Stewards Network to put pressure on the trade unions to call a general strike against austerity. Transport details for an important lobby of the TUC to call a 24 hour general […]
A full-time secure job that pays the bills is all but a distant dream for most people; just as capitalism’s longstanding dream-come-true of a steady flow of flexibly underemployed and poorly paid human fodder is becoming the daily reality for an ever increasing number of people. In this nightmare scenario, temporary recruitment agencies fulfill a […]
Last year, after a long and vibrant fight against some of the world’s most powerful capitalists, militant rank-and-file members of Unite were able to defeat their bosses. In this sweet victory, electricians across the country had united and forced some of Britain’s largest construction and engineering companies to jettison their attempts to force workers to […]
Workers at RF Brookes of South Wigston, Leicester, are facing the possibility of closure of their factory in a vindictive act by the ‘2 Sisters’ food group that owns it. In May they announced 193 redundancies along with the slashing of previously agreed redundancy terms, meaning that workers could have the double whammy of losing […]
Updated July 2016. Midlands: In December 2008, workers at 2 Sisters’ three poultry processing sites in the Midlands in the Unite union balloted for industrial action over low pay. “2 Sisters has offered £214 per week. This is just 8p an hour above the minimum wage for staff who work a 37.5 hour week.” Birmingham: […]
“My daughter wouldn’t be here if it wasn’t for the heart unit at Glenfield Hospital”. This was one of the comments made on Leicester Socialist Party stall campaigning against the closure of the local children’s heart unit. The government want to cut the number of specialist heart units in the country down from 11 to […]
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 […]
Guest post by Brent Kennedy (Socialist Party, Carlisle branch) Why make a lot of profit out of your workers when you can make a fortune out of them? That’s the greedy attitude of 2 Sisters Food Group towards their workers at Cavaghan & Gray in Carlisle. The company has increased its profits by a third, […]
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 […]
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.
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