Leicester Socialist Party and the National Shop Stewards Network (NSSN) attended an emergency branch meeting today for workers from Tulip, a food processing plant in Coalville. The members present voted unanimously to ballot for industrial action due to a series of abuses by their employers. This was after talks between Tulip and the Bakers’ Union […]
“First-Person article” that I got published in today’s Leicester Mercury. Pay cuts and misery for us… but pay rises and jollies for them? Then our leaders have the gall to repeat the lie that austerity and further public sector cuts are the only way we can save our economy. Yet if they were to collect […]
Following the joint public sector strike on 10 July, yesterday almost quarter million civil servants in the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) took strike action in a dispute concerning everyone’s fight for fair pay. Since 2010, taking into account pay cuts, the increase in monthly pension contributions and the cost of living, many civil […]
We’ve had our pay frozen in the civil service for the past four years. Workers everywhere are being degraded and humiliated, despite workload increasing through the roof. I know I have never felt so undervalued. On top of this, our manager recently announced a month of ‘treasure hunts’ around Leicester to promote health and wellbeing. […]
By Alex Morgan, Assistant Branch Secretary, PCS HMRC Leicester branch HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) members in the Midlands were on strike on Thursday 26 June as part of our rolling regional week of action in the jobs and staffing campaign. HMRC are refusing to consult meaningfully with the union on massive job cuts and privatisation […]
Around 200 noisy protesters gathered outside the Town Hall in Leicester yesterday (26 Feb) to oppose the cuts proposed by the city mayor Pete Soulsby and being approved by the council. Many of these were workers at the children’s centres being cut back- 133 jobs are likely to go. The council claims it will keep […]
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