Tag Archives: Strikes
J30 Posters & stickers
These posters are now available at Freedom Bookshop to pick up and distribute for the June 30th public sector strike. Or if you send postage to the shop we can send them out to you. Contact details: Freedom Bookshop 84b Whitechapel High Street London E1 7QX Phone: 020 7247 9249 Email: shop@freedompress.org.uk
J30 Pickets, rallies and actions
A list of all the publicly advertised pickets, rallies, marches and actions so far taking place around the country for the June 30th public sector strike. Check the J30 strike website for updated info and more about the strike itself. http://www.j30strike.org/
J30 strike website
» http://www.j30strike.org/ J30 strike website is now up and running listing all the pickets, actions and activities around the mass public sector workers strike on June 30th. The strike action on June 30th by over 750,000 public sector workers is the biggest threat yet to this government’s plan to make public sector workers pay for [...]
Freedom J30 contributions wanted
Building on the success of the March 26th special, Freedom is once again compiling a special edition of the paper this time for the massive June 30th public sector workers strike. This will be distributed on picket lines (people can order bundles from us and take them to their respective pickets), at demonstrations and marches [...]
Postal Workers update
Two Liverpool sorting offices were the scenes of wildcat strikes on 9th May when over 200 postal workers walked off the job after six workers were unfairly sacked by management after a row over the use of an automated sorting machine. The sacking centred on over staff fears that there was too much mail to [...]
Georgia Prisoners, Standing Up By Sitting Down!
USA prison system in a state of collapse as inmates get organised As we went to press with the previous issue, news was breaking of a historic strike by U.S. prisoners in at least ten Georgia prisons, including Baldwin, Hancock, Hays, Macon, Smith and Telfair State Prisons. The strike, which was initially meant to be [...]
Marseilles, Rebellious or Obnoxious?
A firsthand personal account of the garbage-collectors protest in France The 2013 European Capital of Culture made the headlines in October after transforming itself into the world capital of garbage. Not too flattering a prize, one would assume. Yet, the city was widely described as “rebellious” for its opposition to a new bill. It all [...]
Going Underground
RMT London regional organiser Steve Hedley reports on the ongoing tube workers dispute The National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers (RMT) has now had three very successful one day strikes in defence of jobs and safety on the underground. Management propose to do away with 800 frontline station jobs. These are in the [...]
High court bans strike action
Judge’s ruling allows employers to stop workers striking A disturbing new trend is emerging in industrial disputes with the willingness of the courts to directly intervene on the side of the bosses in preventing strike action by unions. The latest example of this is the management of Milford Haven port in South Wales who have [...]
Green Scientists Show Red Fire
Environmental researchers at state-owned group ISPRA were due to finish a rooftop occupation of their labs, as Freedom went to press, after negotiations were agreed over the firing of nearly one third of company staff. Last year saw 200 people sacked, while another 250 on temporary contracts have been put on notice that they could [...]
