Tag Archives: Trade Unions
French Posties Say NON!
UK parallels unmistakable as EU postal directive hits La Poste As a massive public outcry continues to build throughout France against the privatisation of postal services, thousands of workers have gone on strike against a free-for-all market. The anger of the workforce at proposed changes to the sector led to a major demonstration on 24th [...]
Support for Polish Militants
Members of Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) and the Polish Anarchist Society staged a picket outside the Polish Embassy in London on 29th November in solidarity with the militant factory workers from the Cegielski plant in Poznan, Poland. A dozen or so activists hung a banner on the railings and leafleted the area in [...]
The Reasons Why The Postal Workers Are On Strike
As the strike by postal workers continues Freedom reprints an extract from a postal workers question and answer session detailing the issues surrounding the current dispute. Q: So what’s this all about then? Posties are just lazy aren’t they? And that’s why Royal Mail wants to sort them out?
Four Die In Bangladesh Riot
Four have died in a clash between 10,000 protesters and police on 31st October at a demonstration against the summary closure of a local factory and withholding of back wages. At least 100 workers and an unknown number of police were injured during a brutal police assault on the demonstrators, who were demanding the payment [...]
High Court Backs Blacklisted Worker
Construction worker cleared of being a ‘terrorist threat’ in long running protest against blacklisting The High Court rejected a bid from Scottish and Southern Energy (SSE) to silence an ex-employee and prevent him from picketing a power station, owned by SSE, where he was employed under contract before being made redundant within weeks of starting [...]
Support For Postal Strike
Cambridge anarchists braved the freezing autumn cold and joined postal workers on the picket line, for the night shift at the Clifton Road sorting office on the 22nd and 30th October to show their solidarity and extend the warm hand of anarchist friendship to those postal workers fighting to save their industry and jobs and [...]
Postal Wars
Government and bosses line up for an all out attack on postal workers As postal workers confirm their support for a national strike, bosses at Royal Mail backed by the government are preparing themselves for an all-out war with the Communications Workers Union (CWU) over the future of postal delivery services. A series on ongoing [...]
Solidarity with Serbs
Anarcho-syndicalists arrested over ‘terrorist’ attack in Belgrade Solidarity Federation, the British section of the International Workers Association (IWA) held a demonstration outside the Serbian Embassy in London on 11th September in support of five anarchist comrades arrested in Belgrade on false terrorism charges. Other groups who also attended the protest to demand the immediate release [...]
Administration sacked in Oaxacan town
Section 22 of the teachers’ union in Oaxaca, Mexico, seems to have won a partial victory in its campaign to oust the existing government in San Pedro Jicayan.The Oaxacan Legislature agreed to remove powers from the town’s administration in an extraordinary session and declared the town to be in a “state of ungovernability”. Salary payments [...]
Teachers Walk Out
Anger by workers over management axing staff and courses at Tower Hamlets College Teaching staff at Tower Hamlets College have taken a stand against the proposed management cuts by walking out on indefinite strike. The cuts to staffing levels and student courses will hit thousands of adults in the East End wanting to learn English [...]
