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Sign @unisoneastern's petition today! The trust that runs Colchester and Ipswich hospitals wants to sell cleaning, catering, portering and other facilities services off to the lowest bidder. Divest from Genocide: Wallasey Town Hall 5pm Tue 30 July (new venue) Briefing: slaughter funded with workers pensions and council tax (updated) Merseyside Pension Fund: evidence on investments in complicit companies (6 July 2024) Mask Off Maersk: Demand logistics giant Maersk cut ties with genocide Biden’s peace plan and Israel’s fractured reality IndustriALL Global Union condemns Israel’s genocide in Gaza and calls to support the BDS campaign IndustriALL Executive Committee Resolution: We stand for Peace and Justice CFMEU makes wharf shutdown threat over Gaza conflict (news.com.au) Thousands of pro-Palestinian protestors rally at docks across Australia (cityhub.com.au) Police attack UAW 4811 grad students, teachers at University of California, Santa Cruz University of Liverpool and the Gaza Genocide New report details exposes extensive links between the arms trade and the University of Sheffield (Morning Star) University of Sheffield Genocide and Apartheid Complicity Report Ontario Federation of Labour open letter to University of Toronto President The Movement for Palestine in North America | People’s Conference for Palestine Liverpool TUC statement on invite to George Galloway Liverpool Friends of Palestine statement on meeting 31 May click to enlarge NUMSA DEDICATES WORKERS DAY TO THE STRUGGLE OF THE PEOPLE OF PALESTINE THE CASA, 29 HOPE ST, LIVERPOOL L1 9BP FRIDAY 10TH MAY 12:30PM SPEAKERS FROM THE INTERNATIONAL DOCKWORKERS COUNCIL PAUL KEATING, MARITIME UNION OF AUSTRALIA, SYDNEY BRANCH SEC. WARREN SMITH, MARITIME UNION OF AUSTRALIA, DEPUTY NATIONAL SEC. CHILEAN DOCKWORKER AND OTHERS CLICK TO ENLARGE UNION APPEAL FROM GAZA TO US UNIONS Palestinian General Federation of Trade Unions - Gaza Strip: Appeal to US unions and labor organizations (English and Arabic) Jack Heyman: Response to PGFTU Appeal Flashback – Blockade: Dockers respond to Israel’s Flotilla Massacre and Gaza Siege UNION OPPOSITION TO THE WAR ON GAZA Local 10 Caucus Resolution on the war in Gaza and the West Bank Workers Protest San Francisco Labor Council Honor for Zionist ILWU President Willie Adams BREAKING: Community members have occupied the USNS Harvey Milk. The Bay Area says NO warships in our town! Stay tuned for updates VICTORY: We forced Congresswoman Pelosi to cancel public event at the vessel. No electeds cheerleading genocide on our watch! *NOTE: Automatic rifle in SF Police Protecting (?) US Warship The USNS Harvey Milk is designed to transfer fuel to U.S. Navy carrier strike group ships operating at sea. It was built by General Dynamics, a major current arms supplier for the Israeli military. 19 arrests as Maritime Union of Australia block Port Botany entrance over ZIM ship (Solidarity.net.au) CASA Liverpool message to Paul Keating, MUA Sydney Br Sec Africa Regional Conference of ITF calls for a permanent ceasefire in Gaza (Peoples Dispatch) Unite Gen Sec Sharon Graham letter to PGFTU Gen Sec Shaher Saed Indian union refuses to load ships with arms headed for Israel (Middle East Eye) Ending an abusive relationship Wirral TUC: Our Wages, Our Voices, Our Choices Demo 5pm Tue 19th March Birkenhead Town Hall CH41 5EU UCU Liverpool John Moores University: Open Letter re Jobs Fair with BAE/HPE How the University of Liverpool is complicit in the genocidal war on Gaza ILWU Local 10 Labor Forum 24 February San Francisco The Genocidal Israeli War Against Palestine Dock Workers: Block Military Cargo to Israel Against the Genocidal War on Palestinians in Gaza! Canadian Labour Congress Exec calls for immediate ceasefire in Gaza ILA 273 (Saint John, NB) calls for immediate ceasefire Portland Oregon and West Coast Canada France: two months of campaigning to Stop Arming Israel ‘Lavender’: The AI machine directing Israel’s bombing spree in Gaza (+972 magazine) ‘It’s a Death zone’ - How Israel Destroyed Gaza’s Healthcare (Tribune) PALESTINIAN WOMEN JOURNALISTS 8 March: IFJ stands with women journalists in Gaza Video: Rania Khayyat, Palestinian Journalists Syndicat the Fight To Defend Palestinian Women Journalists In Gaza Defend The Gaza Women Journalists and Women Of Palestine: 4pm 8 March at San Francisco Chronicle, 5th and Mission St. SF QUESTION TO KEIR STARMER: DO YOU ACCEPT THE ICJ RULING THAT ISRAEL MUST PREVENT GENOCIDAL ACTS IN GAZA? National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA): Apartheid Israel condemned for defying international law South Africa stood up for human rights South Africa welcomes ICJ provisional measures South Africa accuses Israel of ‘genocidal acts’ OAKLAND: PORT SHUTDOWN FOR PALESTINE 13 JAN Latest: Pickets shut the port for the night shift as well, making a full 24 hr shutdown. Earlier: The whole port of Oakland is shutdown with 3,000 pickets!! We are shutting down the whole port not just ZIM and military cargo. This is a protest against Israel and the U.S. gov’t without which this genocidal war could not happen. Biden, Blinken and Austin are war criminals that’s why so many protesters turned out. Tonight the employers may try to work the port. The picket will continue for the nightside dispatch of jobs. I think there may be a showdown if police are sent in. There was supposed to be a mass picket Saturday AM. The employers PMA found out and canceled all jobs for dispatch from the union hall. This was a victory for the protesters against the war in Gaza! Jack Heyman. Solidarity message: Congratulations to everyone on the picket, to AROC for organising, and to all those ILWU members honoring the picket. This action, and others which it may spark, is the one thing that Netanyahu, Gallant, Biden, Blinken, Sunak, Starmer et al never imagined: that workers all over the world might make the Palestinian cause their own, and turn a genocidal war into a class war. Solidarity from Liverpool. Greg Dropkin. We shut down the Port of Oakland Thousands shut down the Port of Oakland (video - AROC) AROC twitter feed for Port Shutdown Protesters shut down Port of Oakland, call for cease-fire in Gaza (San Francisco Chronicle) For International Workers Action to Defeat the Genocidal U.S./Israel War! Stop Arming Israel — keep building international organisation and action GAZA Namibia condemns Germany for defending Israel in ICJ genocide case (Al Jazeera) How the BBC undermines its own reports on Israeli massacres in Gaza SI Cobas industrial actions in Italy for Palestine As Israel Besieges al-Awda Hospital, War Crimes in Gaza Have Become Unremarkable (Jacobin) report: Bay Area unions mass rally and march for Palestine video: Bay Area unions and thousands of workers rally and march for Palestine in Oakland Merseyside Pension Fund investments in arms trade challenged (updated) Ukrainian letter of solidarity with Palestinian people Israel-Palestine: Are we reporting fairly? (NUJ London Freelance Branch and the Jewish Network for Palestine (JNP)) Belgian unions call on their members to refuse to handle military equipment (Reuters) Belgian unions refuse handling arms shipments for Israel-Hamas conflict (MEMO) Gaza video for Liverpool trade union BDS meeting 15 Nov The Casa Protest blocks weapons shipment in Tacoma, Washington The National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) stands unequivocally in solidarity with the people of Palestine in their struggle for freedom Statement of the International Dockworkers Council on Armed Conflict: We dockworkers wish to have our hands clean of innocent blood, both in the current and future conflicts Patricia McKeown (Unison Regional Sec Northern Ireland): This is the fault of Israel and the superpowers Unite Aerospace & Defence statement on Gaza Labor for Palestine: Stand With Palestinian Workers: Cease the Genocide Now—Stop Arming Israel! Open letter to Israelis from Israelis: We deserve the truth about October 7 (Mondoweiss) ‘I saw my cousin’s body’: Britons in Gaza describe horror of bombardment (Guardian) Palestine Red Crescent Society: Stop Israeli threat to bombard Al Quds hospital IFRC statement on the evacuation order of Al Quds hospital in Gaza Nusseirat massacre (Musheir El Farra) Khan Younis massacre video report (Musheir El Farra) Khan Younis market video (Musheir El Farra) Ceasefire Now! Lift the Siege! Palestinian trade unions appeal Human rights investigators raise new questions on Gaza hospital explosion (Channel 4 news) Lawyers for Palestinian Human Rights statement on Al Ahli hospital attack UK Healthcare professionals Open Letter to Department of Health and Social Care’s Israel Statement End War Crimes, Lift the Siege Palestinians remove a dead body from the rubble of a building after an Israeli airstrike Jabaliya refugee camp, Gaza Strip, on Monday 9 Oct. Credit: Ramez Mahmoud /AP Palestinian human rights organizations call on the international community to intervene to stop Israeli massacres in Gaza and provide protection to Palestinian civilians NHS Risks of expansion of Big Tech into healthcare NHS: what we’re up against speech to Save Liverpool Women’s Hospital demo 7 October The NHS we want and need Patients not Passports What’s happening to our Healthcare Data? Fighting for the Maternity Service Integrated Care Boards and privatisation Labour Party The Hewitt Review -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Nakba 75: Settlements, Assassinations, Pensions Human Rights Violations Resulted in Khader Adnan’s Death (Physicians for Human Rights Israel) Israel kills Islamic Jihad leaders in surprise Gaza attack (Electronic Intifada) SAFTU President expelled from NUMSA Background: Misguided Numsa leadership steering union to edge of collapse (Karl Cloete, Daily Maverick) NUMSA formerly suspended Office Bearers letter to international organizations RCN members vote 84% "yes" but 43% turnout stops industrial action on pay, for now NHS strikes resume as Unite members reject government pay offer GMB members vote to accept NHS pay offer GPs vote to ballot for industrial action if ‘disastrous’ contract changes are not renegotiated RCN: England nursing strikes: legal challenge latest RCN strike locations BMA strike reports RCN: Spring strike action: what you need to know RCN vote to reject offer, 48-hour strike from 8pm on 30 April without derogations UNISON health workers vote to accept NHS pay offer Unite ballot continues until 28 April, with no recommendation Protect the right to strike (TUC) Anti-strikes Bill will give ministers “unfettered power” to restrict the right to strike BMA briefing – Strikes (Minimum service levels Bill) Firefighters' union calls for defiance of anti-strike laws (FBU) THE NHS PAY OFFER IS A CUT IN REAL TERMS FROM 2021-22 AGENDA FOR CHANGE PAY SCALES This table shows how each Band will lose out if the offer is accepted. It uses the Office for Budget Responsibility estimates of CPI and RPI inflation in 2022 and their forecasts for 2023. NHS Pay: response to UNISON Head of Health Twitterstorm Mon 7-8pm Vote Reject! (NHS workers say NO!) Nurses to trigger no-confidence vote in RCN leadership over pay deal (Nursing Notes) Healthworker bulletin: reject the pay offer Reject Offer (Vanessa Harratt) Govt will save £60bn with pay settlement and destroy NHS (Tax Research UK) NHS Pay Offer: look closer, vote No Inside the secret talks to end nurse and ambulance strikes (BBC) Questions for healthworkers, partly answered by the BBC report "Inside the secret talks": * Was there any discussion by union members of what would happen if the government agreed to talk, and what the "red lines" were for negotiation? * Was there feedback to members during the talks, or only after reaching agreement with a recommendation to accept? * Was there any consultation with stewards / branch secs between the negotiators reaching agreement and the leadership recommending it? * Or was it all done inside a magic circle? * Do members accept that? Time for Real Change in Unison Solidarity with the FBU: Solidarity with migrant workers & refugees For a UNISON that fights and wins for members on pay!: online launch Mon 17 April 6:30pm Jon Rogers: a tribute Integrated Care Boards and the private sector “Self-Referral” proposals from Wes Streeting and Keir Starmer (KONP Merseyside) NHS WORKERS STRIKES AND BALLOTS Liverpool RCN strike 15 Dec photos: Aintree Hospital 8am, Alder Hey 11am click on images to enlarge HOW YOU CAN SUPPORT RCN MEMBERS TAKING STRIKE ACTION * RCN launches strike fund * Print and display our posters in your window or workplace (landscape and portrait) * Download our banners for Facebook (1, 2 and 3) and LinkedIn (1, 2 and 3) * Download our Twibbon * Order free resources via the RCN shop “a nurse’s duty to strike” (Times letters) Why nurses need to strike (KONP) RCN Strike Hub: first phase Thu 15 and Tue 20 Dec Full list of RCN "yes" votes which reached 50% legal threshold (Nursing Notes) I'm a paramedic - here's why I'm striking (New Statesman) Unison to strike North West Ambulance, NICE, Liverpool Heart & Chest, Liverpool University Hospitals Liverpool: public backing for nurses strikes (Liverpool Echo) Unison, GMB and Unite joint ambulance strike 21 Dec, and GMB 28 Dec Unison North West Ambulance Service: 93% yes to strike, 62.2% turnout Unison ambulance workers set to strike in five areas (Unison) GMB: Croydon march against NHS outsourcing 10 Dec When NHS unions met Health Sec. Steve Barclay (GMB) UNISON: Vote Yes for the NHS UNITE: 1,000 Manchester and Lancashire workers balloting for strike in early 2023 UNITE: Fair NHS Pay Now - selective ballots GMB: NHS Pay Ballot FAQs RCM (midwives, maternity support workers) members in England and Wales to be balloted on industrial action over pay SoR (radiographers) members in England and Wales overwhelmingly reject award CSP (physiotherapists) Scotland, Northern Ireland, England and Wales ballots BMA: Junior doctors plan ballot for industrial action in early January BMA Wales: Junior doctors reject contract offer Strikemap UK CWU news AN INJURY TO ONE IS AN INJURY TO ALL ITF letter for release of Mumia Abu-Jamal Doctors in Unite: Resist NHS migrant charges Patients Not Passports leaflet for NHS strikes Download PDF Front and Back www.patientsnotpassports.co.uk/join info@patientsnotpassports.co.uk DOCKERS All Out on Juneteenth, And Stay Out to Win! Frederick Douglass South African dockers strikes: international zoom Liverpool dockers celebrate major victory after Unite secures pay deal worth between 14.3% and 18.5% (Unite) Liverpool dock workers to begin two-week strike 24 October after talks end in ‘chaos’ (Guardian) Unite: Liverpool port dispute escalates as two more weeks of strike announced Unite: Victory to the Dockers UNITE: LIVERPOOL DOCKS 2 WEEK STRIKE FROM 20 SEPT 94% UNION DENSITY, 99.2% VOTE FOR INDUSTRIAL ACTION FELIXSTOWE NEXT WEEK click on images to enlarge Facebook: Liverpool dockers message from John Lynch IDC statement on Liverpool Dockers Strike The International Dockworkers Council - IDC, an organisation representing over 140,000 dockers worldwide, hereby communicates its full support for the demands of the Liverpool dockers. As an international organisation based on solidarity among workers, IDC does not rule out taking action to defend the interests of the Liverpool dockers, dismantling any attempt by the companies to undermine the strike legally organized by UNITE THE UNION for September 19, 2022, where IDC will be present reinforcing the picket line. IDC is also mediating to unblock the conflict. We recall that this is a conflict of wage parity, requesting a wage increase in line with inflation in the country. In solidarity signatures ITF and ETF support for Liverpool strike Dock workers strike at Port of Liverpool over 'pay cut dressed up as rise' (Liverpool Echo) Strikes update 26 August (Manchester TUC) Gtr Manchester upcoming strikes and protests (Manchester TUC) Strikes update 28 July (Manchester TUC) Dockers Demand Better (Unite) #DockersDemandBetter #Enough is Enough Felixstowe: Strike set to begin at UK's biggest container port (BBC) Join the Felixstowe picket line (Unite) Massive 92 per cent yes vote for strike action at Felixstowe Docks (Unite) Strikes announced at port of Felixstowe as company fails to make acceptable pay offer (Unite) UKRAINE ‘Terrible mistake’: human rights groups decry sending cluster bombs to Ukraine (Guardian) US to supply Ukraine with cluster bombs for first time (Financial Times) Ukraine: Civilian Deaths from Cluster Munitions (Human Rights Watch) IDC: No to War and Repression ITF: Dockers unite against Putin's Ukraine invasion Open Letter to the ILWU Comment on Open Letter to the ILWU Jack Heyman: Response to Greg Dropkin on Ukraine War Greg Dropkin: Response to Jack Heyman on Ukraine Bogus ‘anti-imperialism’ serves the Kremlin A letter to the Western left from Kyiv Russia, Ukraine, Energy and the West Bolton Socialist Club: Red Friday 25th November 7:30pm details -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Liverpool Enough is Enough rally (1) (Skwawkbox) Liverpool Enough is Enough rally (2) (Skwawkbox) Liverpool Enough is Enough march (YouTube) NHS pay offer £1400, inflation 11.8% (RPI June) = 7% cut for AfC Band 5 (e.g. most nurses) NHS Workers Say NO: Reject the offer - get ready to strike! NHS Pay Cuts protest: 6:30pm Mon 25 July, Dept of Health & Social Care (London) Delayed, disappointing pay rise will leave staff considering their futures, say health unions Public would back industrial action over NHS pay (Unison) Snap poll: 81% of nurses back strike over 7% real terms pay cut Rewriting the rules on Emergency Care without Parliamentary scrutiny What's just happened, how did the UK government respond, and what's it got to do with us? Following Israel’s latest massacre in Gaza: It’s high time for the UN to act to dismantle apartheid (BDS movement) Northwest local government pension fund investments supply arms to Israel (updated 22/02/23) Northwest local government pension fund investments supply illegal Israeli settlements (updated 22/02/23) US-owned firm advised Cheshire & Merseyside Integrated Care Board NHS staff will never forget (NHS Workers Say NO) Johnson's legacy: misconduct, death and NHS in crisis (KONP) Unite national officer (Health) letter to Wes Streeting Tentacles wrapped around the NHS Labour Court denies Numsa leave to appeal, conference remains interdicted (news24) NUMSA suspended members take the union to court NUMSA Shopstewards and Elected officials are fighting for the union’s soul Billionaire funder shuts down independent South African media outlet Liverpool protest at Integrated Care Board 1 July RMT Liverpool rally 12pm Sat 25 June RMT: Second strike day sees huge turnout on pickets Support the rail strikes: Manchester pickets and rally 3pm 25 June (RS21) RMT 20 June: National Rail & London Underground Strikes Manchester TUC: Strike solidarity and protests RMT response to Grant Shapps RMT launch 3 days of national strike action across the railway network Unite members at TfL and London Underground to strike over pensions, pay and jobs 91,000 civil service cuts: PCS members are tax payers, too FBU goes to court after bosses’ “secret letter” aimed at blocking pensions TUC: We demand better: March and Rally, 18 June Privilege Style: the Home Office’s deportation airline of last resort (Corporate Watch Dec 2020) Unions call for delay to Rwanda policy until legal position fully tested (Guardian 13 June 2022) Outcome announced of PCS challenge to Home Office Rwanda removal policy (PCS 10 June 2022) HEALTH AND CARE BILL The battle is over but the war goes on (KONP) Parliamentary debate ends Unison Health Care Conference Unison Health Care Conference leaflet JIMMY NOLAN Sad News Jimmy Nolan has Passed Away… Jimmy Nolan letter to ILWU - 18 November 1997 Letter to Jimmy Nolan 23 January 2021 Excerpt from Solidarity, Global Restructuring and Deregulation: The Liverpool Dockers’ Dispute 1995-98, by Monica Clua Losada The need for internationalism grew from the stark realisation that the way in which dockworkers in Liverpool had fought previous struggles was no longer going to be effective. The world in which they operated had changed radically. In 1967 and 1989, they were not alone and they were not just fighting their employer. Their struggle was not localised, but rather part of the struggle of many other British dockers against both their employers and the regulatory (or deregulatory) changes initiated by the government. This time it was just them and the employer and they were only a few. It was in this sense, that shop stewards’ chairman Jimmy Nolan, recollecting his previous international experience, launched the idea of an international initiative in a pub conversation amongst the shop stewards. Nolan’s idea got the ball rolling. The dockworkers already had contacts, and the support groups that had started to be formed in Britain, particularly the Merseyside support group and some of the initiators of the London support groups, had contacts in the international Trotskyist movement. The international campaign was based upon three pillars: the dormant international contacts amongst dockworkers, the international Trotskyist movement and the Liverpool dockworkers themselves creating ‘flying pickets’. At the same time, a fourth factor started to become prominent, the use of the Internet. At this stage the coordination of these four factors was not necessarily a coherent strategy, but rather the attempt to utilise everything available... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Time for Real Change: Paul Holmes Time for Real Change: Unison NEC Committee meetings Coventry Bin Strike (Unite) Twitter: #CovBinStrike G4S Croydon hospital workers protest 31 Jan to demand covid sick pay (GMB) Great Ormond Street security guards strike (UVW union) Security guards at Great Ormond Street Hospital to strike over ‘unfair’ maternity rights (Independent) Burns, Emergency Care and the Health Bill Data, Privatisation and Integrated Care Tentacles wrapped around the NHS Health Bill: Unite briefing on Lords amendments US rallies 27 Jan: Solidarity with South African Clover strike against redundancies after Israeli takeover South Africa: Clover workers strike against long hours and less pay (New Frame) Striking Clover workers call for nationalisation (SABC) Sign appeal in support of Clover strikers Video: South Africa Clover Workers Strike Israeli Billionaires With John Appolis GIWUSA General Secretary (laborvideo) PALESTINE ACTION VICTORY IN OLDHAM! Victory in Oldham: Elbit forced to sell Ferranti after sustained direct action campaign Another Elbit case dropped after prosecution offer no evidence FOR INTERNATIONAL WORKERS ACTION TO FREE MUMIA ABU-JAMAL UNITE join Call to Action to Free Mumia Abu-Jamal Call to Action and Endorsers For International Workers Action to Free Mumia Abu-Jamal Answering the call from the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) International Forum online 1 February 2022 VIDEO of the International Forum MIKE CARDEN Liverpool Dockers: website for the book Video: Book Launch of Liverpool Dockers: A History of Rebellion and Betrayal Fighting to implement members democratic decisions, denied by union bureaucracy Democracy and the Union – review of Liverpool Dockers: A History of Rebellion and Betrayal The Lizard's Trail on the Liverpool Docks (Bryan D. Palmer, Counterpunch) Liverpool Dockers: A History of Rebellion and Betrayal, by Mike Carden Book Launch 11 am 19 May, The Casa History: the Namibian uranium blockade on Liverpool docks Mike Carden, who died on 9 December, was a shop steward in the T&GWU 567 clerical section on Liverpool docks, elected to the union’s General Executive Council, and one of the leaders during the sacked Liverpool dockers dispute 1995-98. He had a direct and immediate understanding of the class conflict at work, and saw far beyond Liverpool. Mike Carden funeral ILWU condolences on the passing of Mike Carden ILA condolences on the passing of legendary labor leader Mike Carden The Aftermath of Liverpool - Where was British Labor? (David Bacon) Video message from Angela Davis (May 2021) A real soldier in the class war To know reality and tie it to action Mike Carden on the anti-apartheid blockade One of many who shone through Mike Carden’s Passing A passionate and very important trade unionist I’ll be brief Saint John dockers court victory over Yemen arms shipment picket RESPONSE TO HEALTH AND CARE BILL 2021-22 KONP AGM unanimously adopts motion on Health and Care Bill Comments on the Health and Care Bill 2021-22 Keep Our NHS Public statement on eve of Bill publication Demo: Parliament 12:30-14:30 Wed 14th July LIVERPOOL ARMS FAIR Liverpool rises in opposition to arms fair as legal challenge is mounted (Open Democracy) Massacres and Money: from Gaza to the Liverpool Arms Fair PALESTINIAN RESPONSES TO LIVERPOOL ARMS FAIR PLAN PGFTU-Gaza and civil society organisations The Palestine New Federation of Trade Unions WE’RE NOT ASKING FOR COMPENSATION, WE’RE ASKING FOR WHAT’S OURS BIOMEDICAL SCIENTISTS IN UNITE PAY STRIKE IN BURNLEY AND BLACKBURN PGFTU GAZA THANKS ILWU LOCAL 10 AND AROC UP TO 1,000 PEOPLE PROTEST UNLOADING OF ISRAELI SHIP IN OAKLAND (NBC) Stop ZIM Action Committee 4 June: The Volans left the Port of Oakland earlier this afternoon. Longshoremen and port truckers honored the picket lines, and the ship left unworked. It looks like the Bay Area has now organized the only successful labor action anywhere in the world - to date - against the atrocities in Gaza. The Stop ZIM Action Committee is continuing to monitor the situation. We hope other West Coast ports will refuse to work the Volans. The Stop ZIM Action Committee would like to thank the longshoremen of Local 10, the ships' clerks of Local 34 and the port truckers for honoring the picket. line, and the Block the Boat Coalition for their role in making the picket happen. The Journal of Commerce reports that "Due to vessel delays in Oakland, Zim is suspending its premium trans-Pacific service until at least late July and is re-routing the service from Central China to call in Los Angeles-Long Beach." The earlier action in Livorno, Italy reported on 17 May was successful, but the ship with military cargo for Israel was then unloaded in Naples. It is unclear if an action announced in Durban, South Africa, was in fact successful. PGFTU GAZA APPEAL FOR INTERNATIONAL ACTION STOP ZIM ACTION COMMITTEE Facebook: Stop ZIM Action Committee Twitter: @StopZIMOak May 25th NCDC-ILWU Statement On Palestine THE INTERNATIONAL DOCKWORKERS COUNCIL (IDC) STRONGLY CONDEMNS THE MASSACRE OF CIVILIANS AND CHILDREN IN PALESTINE. UNCONDITIONAL SUPPORT TO THE PALESTINIAN GENERAL STRIKE... IDC CALLS ON ALL DOCKWORKERS TO SHOW THE SOLIDARITY THAT HAS BEEN DEMONSTRATED SO MANY TIMES IN SO MANY CONFLICTS. WE CANNOT ALLOW OURSELVES TO BE COMPLICIT IN THIS VIOLENCE BY WORKING ON SHIPS THAT OPERATE WAR MERCHANDISE DESTINED TO MASSACRE CIVILIANS AND CHILDREN. IDC STATEMENT IN FULL Palestinians calling from Gaza to Jerusalem: All out on Saturday May 15th End the Ongoing Nakba and the Massacre in Besieged Gaza U.S. Labor Must Stand With Palestine! Pro-Palestine Italian port workers refuse to load arms shipment destined for Israel Italian Dockers Refuse to Load Arms Shipment to Israel in Solidarity with Palestine Coordinadora message to Livorno (en español) Flashback – Blockade: Dockers respond to Israel’s Flotilla Massacre and Gaza Siege Israeli Strike In Gaza Destroys Building That Housed AP, Other Media (AP) Israel must be held accountable for its crimes against journalists and civilians (IFJ) CAAT calls for immediate investigation into whether UK-made arms have been used in the ongoing bombardment of Gaza Northern local government pension fund investments supply arms to Israel Northern local government pension fund investments supply illegal Israeli settlements Petition: Stop the Liverpool Electronic Arms Fair Joint Statement on Health and Care Bill (We Own It) University of Liverpool UCU strike against redundancies Action short-of-strike: Defending jobs at the University of Liverpool (zoom) Rössing Uranium Mineworkers Report from Labour Arbitration Hearing Rössing Uranium Mineworkers Press Statement Namibia: Rössing Uranium Mineworkers Appeal as Branch Exec Dismissed Liverpool UCU overwhelming vote for strike against job cuts Liverpool UCU twitter feed Liverpool Echo: University of Liverpool staff vote to strike over job cuts REJECT GOVERNMENT PROPOSALS FOR INTEGRATED CARE SYSTEMS Model motion: "Oppose Integrated Care Systems in the English NHS" Stop the roll out of Integrated Care Systems in the English NHS (NHS White Paper, Feb 2021) (KONP) The great GP surgery takeover: US giant seizes four practices in Camden (Camden New Journal) Comments on the White Paper on Integrated Care Systems Corporate Agenda for Integrated Care Keep Our NHS Public are calling for widespread rejection of proposals from NHS England for legislation to entrench Integrated Care Systems. NHS England's consultation closes this Friday 8 January, and KONP asks for responses which include, in your own words, points adapted from these model responses. Please read the cover letter and summary briefing. In-depth analysis of the NHS England plans is here: Legislative Proposals Democratic Accountability Social Care Corporate Agenda for Integrated Care BME London Landlords: Why we think you should say YES NEU: MAKE SCHOOLS SAFE JANUARY SCHOOL SAFETY ADVICE MODEL LETTER TO HEAD TEACHERS PRESS RELEASE 2 JAN RMT ALSTOM LONGSIGHT STRIKE RMT: no hesitation in taking strike action to deliver our members the pay rise they deserve and in supporting national coordinated action to deliver pay justice for all key workers PCS slams Chancellor for public sector pay freeze Unite: Sunak’s ‘divide and rule’ on public sector pay ‘a body blow’ Unison: This cynical, divisive kick in the teeth GMB: Chancellor delivers pay cut for workers who carried us through pandemic TUC: The pay freeze for key workers is a bitter pill to swallow NHS staff will be awarded a pay rise next year, confirms Sunak ZeroCovid: Manchester 5 Dec Background to NHS privatisation - a briefing for Merseyside MPs Some current aspects of NHS privatisation John Clegg 1950-2020 - People Not Profit - Nov 2020 Palestinian Solidarity with Jeremy Corbyn Innova in Liverpool: what a positive test means Short of a General Strike, How Can Labor Stop Trump From Stealing the Election? (The Nation) Accused of antisemitism - expelled for being anti-Trident Censored on the SWP TV channel Zionism, Anti-Semitism, and Ken Livingstone (April 2017) NEU: Circuit Breaker for Secondary Schools and Post-16 NEU: Merseyside calls for national union strategy to respond to Covid-19 escalation Public Health England Interim Chief Exec and past IT cuts Unlawful NHS mergers threaten Privatisation under cover of COVID Letter to Councillors: Clinical Commissioning Groups merging for Integrated Care System GAZA COVID-19 OUTBREAK Gaza lockdown within the lockdown photo: Ma'an News Agency Gaza: 98 new cases of Corona were recorded, and the curve of the virus outbreak is escalating (Ma'an News - google translate) Gaza: 446 new cases in community this week (World Health Organisation) Before the community outbreak: “The situation is about to erupt” (Dr Mona El-Farra) Corona, Gaza - 160,000 workers were affected, and losses amounted to 27 million dollars (Ma'an News - google translate) Gaza: Curfew in Gaza extended until further notice (Ma'an News - google translate) Gaza on the tenth day of the emergency: mounting casualties, an open sea and a warning of complacency (Ma'an News - google translate) “Not a penny more to Serco - Give local teams the cash” — Liverpool photos and press release We Own It - Serco demos 8TH AUGUST NHS PAY DEMOS Model Motion UNISON calls for a £2,000 pay rise for all NHS workers (Nursing Notes) Liverpool 8 Aug 2020 click on images to enlarge London Leeds Barnsley Birmingham Unite GMB Unison Southend-on-Sea Unison Central Bristol Health Unison Hull & East Riding Health Unison Highland Healthcare Barnsley TUC Manchester TUC The Liverpool demo is also supported by Liverpool University Hospitals Staff-side and Unison. Lincs Unison is supporting a protest in Lincoln. Clap, Slap, and Crap Unison: Bring Back Outsourced Liverpool NHS Workers Petition: Bring Liverpool NHS services back in-house! Labour Party members seek legal challenge to ‘absurd’ disciplinary process Free Mahmoud Nawajaa (BDS Movement) 1000 Israelis call for immediate release of Mahmoud Nawajaa (Boycott from Within) e-Action: Free Mahmoud Nawajaa (PSC) draft letter to FCO (PSC) This is not charity – The JNF and the IDF Jewish National Fund works hand in glove with Israeli military (Electronic Intifada) Manchester TUC at KONP 4 July demo Aintree Hospital rally after 4 July Liverpool Cavalcade Photos, slogans and speeches for the 4 July Cavalcade Liverpool Cavalcade for NHS amid “300 unnecessary Covid deaths in Liverpool” Our NHS Deserves Better: 4-5 July nationwide Israeli ‘Kneel on Neck’ and Minneapolis US police departments under pressure to end training programmes with Israel (Middle East Eye) Palestinian Americans draw stark comparisons of US and Israeli uses of force (Middle East Eye) DEADLY EXCHANGE: The Dangerous Consequences of American Law Enforcement Trainings in Israel (Jewish Voice for Peace) 'Police Unity Tour': US officers in Israel for anniversary of 9/11 attacks (Middle East Eye) With Whom are Many U.S. Police Departments Training? With a Chronic Human Rights Violator – Israel (Amnesty USA) Liverpool medics fear track and trace at risk over 'unfair' migrant charges NHS staff letter to Merseyside NHS Trusts: COVID-19 and NHS Charges Video: End the Hostile Environment to Fight the Pandemic Petition: Coronavirus: End the Hostile Environment to Fight the Pandemic Merseyside NHS staff appeal: Stop Charging Migrants for Healthcare The whole world is watching Oakland JuneteenthSPT ANTI-RACISM WORK STOP JUNE 19 2020 ILWU Video: ILWU Local 10 & 34 Leaders Speak Out On Juneteenth & Fight Against Racism & Worker Action Poster: 19 June West Coast ports shutdown END Systemic Racism,STOP Police Terror & STOP Privatization of the Port of Oakland! George Floyd murder: ILWU letter to Minnesota Governor Covid-19 Shambles: 11 Reasons why “guided by science” claim is lie NEU: Coronavirus : vulnerable workers checklist NEU: Open Schools When It's Safe INTERNATIONAL WORKERS’ MEMORIAL DAY HEALTHWORKERS CALL FOR ACTION ON WORKERS MEMORIAL DAY Medics to stage vigil on Tuesday for staff who have died of Covid-19 at hospital which saved Boris Johnson’s life (London News Online) Section 44: the right to refuse unsafe work RCN: Guidance for members: Refusal to treat due to lack of adequate PPE during the pandemic Unite statement on coronavirus – and its impact on paramedics and other NHS workers and social care staff Unison Gen Sec Blog: your right to be safe from harm at work TUC: Protecting workers’ safety in the coronavirus pandemic Coronavirus: End the Hostile Environment to Fight the Pandemic (open letter) The COVID-19 pandemic: we need urgent measures to protect people and mend the cracks in our health, social protection and migration systems (PICUM) International Working People's Day May 1, 2020 Programming Let Cruise Workers Off Death Ships Now! Joint Palestinian, aid agencies, and Israeli human rights organisations statement on COVID-19 World Health Day: PCHR Calls for Providing Medical Supplies and COVID-19 Testing Kits to Gaza Strip’s Health Sector Trusts advise widespread use of PPE as staff ‘refuse to see patients’ (HSJ) Covid-19: why is the UK government ignoring WHO’s advice? (BMJ) COVID-19 and the NHS—“a national scandal” (Richard Horton, The Lancet) 6 Demands from NHS staff to help us tackle Coronavirus COVID-19: UK Lockdown Forecast COVID-19 Global Cases Dock Workers Threaten to Shut Down Ports After Risking Coronavirus Exposure Ireland declares safe for all migrants to access essential services People's Health Movement Korea statement on COVID-19 Cleaners in coronavirus-hit London hospital walk out after private contractor fails to pay wages (GMB) Cleaning staff at Lewisham hospital strike over pay The entire UK may come to regret Sunak’s inadequate coronavirus budget (OurNHS) Winter Crisis: Demo 12-1:30 Thur 13 Feb Royal Liverpool Hospital (KONP) 15,500 nurses strike in Northern Ireland over pay and patient safety (BBC) Around 9,000 nurses take strike action in NI (Belfast Telegraph) Kent stroke unit closures: Day 1 in Court (Save Our NHS Kent) Kent stroke unit closures: Day 2 in Court (Save Our NHS Kent) We reject the Tory “Long Term Plan” for the NHS (KONP) The Tories' NHS Lies (Tribune) Tory NHS Plans... and Ours (KONP Merseyside) Charges and the ‘Hostile Environment’ in the NHS (as published in The Lowdown Number 13 - 11 November 2019) Merseyside Pensioners Association: Anti-Labour smears of Jewish Chronicle exposed by Independent Press Standards Organisation (video) Press Gazette: Jewish Chronicle rapped by IPSO over lack of evidence for claims about Labour activist Exclusive: The Riverside scandal – Louise Ellman and the war on Riverside Labour Party (JVL) Petition – Labour: reinstate Asa Winstanley’s press pass for Labour Party conference now (Change.org) Journalists call on Labour to restore Asa Winstanley’s press pass (Electronic Intifada) Labour’s poor excuses for revoking Asa Winstanley’s press pass (Electronic Intifada) Labour Party revokes Electronic Intifada press pass (Electronic Intifada) Responding to Labour’s statement “No Place for Antisemitism” (Liverpool Friends of Palestine) Manchester Science Museum to strike over pay (Prospect) Bradford Hospitals 300 staff on 2 week strike against privatisation plan (Unison) Bradford Hospitals Strike: petition (Change.org) Outsourced NHS staff in Blackpool and St Helens strike over pay and conditions (Unison) ITV report on Whiston and Blackpool strikes (ITV) Trade negotiations and the triple trouble for health and the NHS (Our NHS - Open Democracy) The NHS is already on the table. But here's exactly how Trump wants to sharpen the knives (Our NHS - Open Democracy) Panorama: How the BBC responds to complaints Labour Friends of Israel denies funding from Israeli spy (Electronic Intifada) Critical questions for the Jewish Labour Movement (JLM) John Ware (BBC Panorama 10.7.19): “Ken Livingstone has a history of false claims that Jews were in cahoots with Nazis, in establishing Israel... In fact, what historians know, is that this is a gross misreading of history.” Rubbish. The history of relationships between the Nazi party and Zionism in Germany during the 1930s was rewritten and dismissed by John Ware in a throwaway line. But it is real, and historians know it. Zionism, Anti-Semitism, and Ken Livingstone (April 2017) The NHS and Trade and Investment Agreements - Trump's Fake Reassurances Dr Sonia Adesara vs IEA on Trump plans for NHS UAF keeps Trump Plan for Palestine off the agenda at Liverpool protest Victory for Princess Alexandra domestics on eve of strike (Unison) Cornerstone update: UNISON to meet members as management move to impose rejected pay offer Health privatiser Circle vs NHS in Court hearing Demo: Wed 15th May at 12 30 7 Rolls Buildings, Fetter Ln, Holborn, London EC4A 1NL (round the corner from the main Royal Courts of Justice building) NOTTINGHAM KONP: CRUNCH WEEK FOR THE NHS IN NOTTINGHAM! UNISON NOTTINGHAM UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS & ALLIED SERVICES: APPALLED AT 'SCANDALOUS' BEHAVIOUR OF CIRCLE (2 MAY 2019) CIRCLE LAUNCHES FRESH COURT CHALLENGE OVER LOST CONTRACT (THE LOWDOWN) Unison: AFG workers set to begin seven-day strike Petition: Care at Night, Pay us right! GoFundMe Strike Fund Appeal AFG strike rally Fri 10 May 12 noon St Georges, Liverpool A statement from Royal Liverpool healthcare workers on healthcare charges John Davies responds to slanders in the Jewish Chronicle, after his suspension from the Labour Party: The Slanderer’s Road to Socialism Liverpool Women’s Hospital Unison Strike Liverpool Women’s Hospital staff escalate strike over unfair pay (Unison) click on images to enlarge Unpublished letters: Anti-racism, Palestine, and Liverpool MPs Cheadle Teachers to Strike 26 Feb (NASUWT) Liverpool healthworkers meeting on NHS charges for migrants RMT Northern Rail members standing solid RMT Arriva Northern Strike Appeal RMT response to Chris Grayling RMT: Keep the Guard on the Train We did it! G4S dumped from asylum housing contract Join Twitter Storm for Mumia Abu-Jamal Urgent Care notes (KONP Merseyside) Reports from Patients Not Passports Liverpool 3 Nov Leaflet: Patients Not Passports Liverpool 3 Nov Upfront NHS charges one year on - 6 reasons why they harm us all (Ed Jones, OurNHS) Royal Liverpool PFI collapse vindicates KONP campaign NHS England Rationing Plan flouts NICE guidance Stalled Royal Liverpool Hospital to be publicly funded (BBC) Palestine leaflets at Labour Party Conference Zionism: A Colonial Movement Solidarity with Palestine: Boycott Israeli Apartheid Palestinian civil society statement: Labour Party Must Reject Biased IHRA Definition That Stifles Advocacy For Palestinian Rights Campaign forces Israeli Zim Lines to halt shipments to Tunisia Israel-linked cargo ship sailing into Tunisian storm (Electronic Intifada) Anti-Semitism, Freedom of Speech, and the IHRA Statement from Wavertree and Riverside constituents Swedish Dockworkers Letter re Mumia Abu-Jamal NHS pay deal row intensifies as nurses call for union leader to quit (Caroline Molloy, Open Democracy) NHS staff discover they will get hundreds of pounds less than many thought (Caroline Molloy, Open Democracy) The NHS Pay Deal, Again WIGAN NHS JOINT UNION STRIKE AGAINST SUBCO Wigan victory but questions remain over details of deal (Wigan Today) UNISON: Reckless decision prompts third round of strike action at NHS Trust UNISON escalates its campaign against NHS outsourcing UNISON Parliamentary Briefing on Wholly Owned Subsidiaries Unite: North West NHS strikes stepped up over outsourcing plans Report from Wigan strike meeting Plans for hospital firm get the green light (Wigan Today) Demo 1pm 7 June Town Hall Liverpool Liverpool Health and Wellbeing Board: Reject the Integrated Care System Reject private sector NHS risk-share plan (pdf) Integrated Care Systems and Liverpool LIVE: 55 Palestinians killed in Gaza border protests, over 2,700 injured (Ma'an News) Palestinian medics, journalists among dead and injured in Gaza (Ma'an News) South Africa withdraws Israel Ambassador with immediate effect (BDS South Africa) B'Tselem: Firing live ammunition at Gaza demonstrators shows appalling indifference to human life Palestinians have seen Trump 'deal of the century', and want nothing of it (Middle East Eye 30 April) Israel amassing its forces ahead of Nakba protests (Electronic Intifada) Entangled: Graphene, Arms, Israel and the University of Manchester Zionism, Anti-Semitism, and Ken Livingstone (April 2017) Snipers ordered to shoot children, Israeli general confirms (Electronic Intifada) Leaflet: Israel guns down unarmed Gaza protests Sorry Commander, I cannot shoot B'Tselem: Sorry Commander, I cannot shoot B'Tselem: Why Israeli soldiers must refuse to fire at unarmed Palestinian protesters Reporting from Gaza Guardian Letters on Gaza Palestine: March of Return Antisemitism: another agenda? McStrike! McStrike - Manchester 1st May - NWTUC support The Deceptive NHS Pay Offer Why NHS staff should #DitchTheDeal and reject the government pay offer (OurNHS) YouTube: Karen Reissmann - Why healthworkers should reject the pay offer Support Unite Fujitsu Strikers — 3 events Strikes continue at Fujitsu Manchester — your support is appreciated If Macron starts to wobble, the whole show collapses (Links) click on images to enlarge UCU Liverpool twitter feed Michael Mair – Fateful (Dis)Junctures, An Update on the UK’s University Strike UCU/UUK agreement rejected - strike to continue Open Letter rejecting the UCU/UUK agreement at ACAS University of Liverpool UCU response to the pensions proposal photos: Tom Bimpson, UCU North-West Region Retired Members Branch Sec. UCU strikers in the CASA (sacked Liverpool Dockers venue) 23 Feb 2018 — Day 2 Darren Ireland, RMT North West regional organiser, greets UCU strikers and reports on the Merseyrail and Northern strikes to defend rail safety and the guards posts Strike continues as ACAS talks to begin 5 Mar UCU - Strike Live! Newcastle vice chancellor backs striking lecturers Video: Defend Our Pensions! UCU Liverpool President Jo McNeill (Labor Video Project) UCU pensions strike UCU: FAQs on strike UCU Liverpool blog Why we strike (LRB) Gloucestershire SubCo: Joint Trade Union statement Gloucestershire SubCo: Campaign statement Gloucestershire SubCo: Gloucestershire Hospitals Board statement Subsidiary Companies: walking into a trap for the NHS? (OurNHS) Accountable Care, Integrated Care, and Privatisation Sam Semoff obit and audio Mumia: new legal moves, but a reignited international mobilization is critical for victory (Counterpunch) Flashback: 1999 ILWU strike for Mumia (YouTube) Flashback 1980: What Future for Zimbabwe Now? Accountable Care: Ribera Salud hospital fined €150,000 for exposing workers to carcinogens Barcelona General Strike - Reel News video reports San Francisco Bay Area transport workers message to La Coordinadora Coordinadora press statement 3 October (in Catalan) Reel News email re new videos These Dockworkers Just Showed the Labor Movement How to Shut Down Fascists (Peter Cole, In These Times) Dockers will turn out to stop fascists in San Francisco Sustainability and Transformation Plans, and Accountable Care (Socialist Health Association) Accountable to Whom? From STPs to Accountable Care Organisations Automation: Class War on the Waterfront Video on G4S: The Asylum Market (Brass Moustache) more G4S Want to stop Trump? Take a Page From These Dockworkers, and Stop Work (In These Times) Oakland dockers wildcat as Trump inaugurated Dockers & Drivers Demo North West Unite leaflet photos: Tommy Molloy, ITF click on images to enlarge Friday 13 Jan protest at Seaforth dock, Liverpool, over lack of facilities for lorry drivers and dock workers at the Peel Ports site. Unite has now organised 270 of the current 300 strong workforce on Liverpool docks. Dec. 27, 2016 — Members, officers and retiree of ILWU Local 10 present British Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn with a poster from 2008 ILWU West Coast Ports shutdown against the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Corbyn was a keynote speaker in 2007 at Local 10's Anti-war Conference which led to the first-ever trade union strike in the U.S. against imperialist war. Left to right: Andre Dawkins, Ed Ferris, Jeremy Corbyn, Derrick Muhammad, Jack Heyman RMT: Background to Southern Rail dispute ASLEF comment as Appeal Court upholds industrial action rights RMT responds to Chris Grayling RMT letter to Chief Inspector of Railways Action for Rail: National Day of Action 3 Jan CWU: PO strike 3 stronger than ever British Airways cabin crew set to strike over poverty pay levels and broken promises Unite: Fujitsu strike for pay, pensions and job security: talks, Manchester rally 9 Dec Fujitsu Manchester strike day #7 Unison:A libel threat, a database and a “cut and paste” email – all to help Dave Prentis win? (Alex Varley Winter / David Hencke) Unison election: Now Electoral Reform Services on trial (David Hencke) Unison: Union Democracy on Trial (David Hencke) Ballot Firm Defends Unison Leader Poll (Morning Star) Unison: Defeated Candidates Launch Vote Result Challenge (Morning Star) San Francisco Labor Council resolution on hate fliers US Bill to Punish Students Who Criticize Israel Free Speech on Israel PSC: New Statesman dispute resolved G4S ditches Israel businesses (Electronic Intifada) STOP THE STP: NHS CUTS AND PRIVATISATION PLANS From STPs to Accountable Care Organisations Liverpool Women’s Hospital: response to the clinical case for change STP: Shropshire plan on hold after public debate Oxford City Council demands full disclosure and consultation (adopted as amended) Letter to Liverpool Mayor Joe Anderson (KONP M'side) Letter to Liverpool CCG Governing Body (KONP M'side) Mayoral statement adopted by Liverpool Health and Wellbeing Board Mayor Anderson attacks controversial NHS cuts plan (Liverpool Echo) Video: Demo at Liverpool Health and Wellbeing Board Liverpool CCG hiding the figures for NHS cuts plan (KONP M'side) Analysis of the Cheshire & Merseyside STP (KONP M'side) Campaigners demand NHS cuts plan be frozen (Keep Our NHS Public Merseyside, Defend Our NHS Wirral & Cheshire) Sefton Council deplores STP plan Stop the STP! (Keep Our NHS Public Merseyside) NHS: Secret STP plans for Cheshire and Merseyside Conference statement: Challenging the STP plans (Health Campaigns Together conference 17 Sept) STPs: cuts dressed up in wishful thinking (John Lister) Devo Manc, STPs and cuts in Gtr Manchester (Caroline Bedale) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pay: London Metropolitan University Unison strike ballot Background to the London Met pay dispute video: Jackie Walker at LRC fringe meeting for TUC Congress 2016 It's high time for mass mobilization to free Mumia! (Jack Heyman and Eric Clanton, Counterpunch) BFAWU: support for Corbyn and Ronnie Draper Manchester Deserves Better Mental Health Services campaign Manchester Deserves Better Mental Health Services petition (pdf) Brexit or no Brexit - trade deals still threaten our NHS (Our NHS) Racism in the NHS: Don't let the unspeakable become acceptable (OurNHS) Manchester victory against Mental Health Cuts Plan to cut £1.5m worth of mental health services is axed in extraordinary u-turn (M.E.N.) Manchester Users Network Unison branch lobby of Mental Health Trust Board 31 Mar 2016 Unison Manchester Community & Mental Health Branch response to Consultation (Feb 2016) Manchester Deserves Better Len McLuskey speech to Unite Policy Conference Fawley oil refinery strike over ‘half pay’ for foreign workers (Unite) messages of support to malcolm.bonnett@unitetheunion.org or 07958624506 Migrant workers strike because they get half the pay of others (Socialist Worker) Brexit: John Pilger is wrong A Blow for Peace and Democracy: Why the British said No to Europe (John Pilger, Counterpunch) Junior Doctors strike dates Junior Doctors reject new contract by 58% - 42% on a 68% turnout National Union of Teachers strike 5 July Manchester TUC letter to Manchester Council Leader Defend Jeremy Corbyn - Manchester TUC 1 July 18:00 Piccadilly Gardens PCS: NEC statement on the EU result and political campaigning (30 Jun) Joint Union statement on Labour Party (30 June) PCS: Statement on EU referendum and Jeremy Corbyn (27 June) GMB condemns wave of hate-crime (27 June) Unison: Tories are divided, Labour should not be (27 June) FBU: Stop the coup against Corbyn (26 June) RMT statement in support of Jeremy Corbyn (26 June) Union leaders statement backing Corbyn (24 June) Brexit disaster, but a glimmer of hope Chakrabarti Inquiry published Free Speech on Israel rejects demonisation of Jeremy Corbyn video: Ken Livingstone on Hitler and Zionism - Historian Lenni Brenner interviewed Zionism's Record during the Holocaust The message behind Labour’s anti-Semitism witch hunt Antisemitism and the Labour Party: Submission to the Chakrabarti Inquiry from members of Riverside CLP, Liverpool Union Members Struggle for a Democratic Debate on Palestine: Statement on UAW 2865 BDS Vote Nullification Free Speech on Israel: Liverpool 14 June Free Speech on Israel Trump cites Israel as role model for racial profiling (Ha'aretz, Reuters, Jewish Insider) Reject the contract — junior doctors and our patients can do better (OurNHS) BMA website The Heart of the Matter: Speech to Junior Doctors demo, Royal Liverpool Hospital NHS Devolution Dangers: video and documents BMA rejects imposition of Junior Doctors contract “We will consider all options open to us” Why are junior doctors really striking? (video, OurNHS) High fives, cakes and flying bicycle pickets — public support rides high for the doctors strike (OurNHS) Pill Cost Pennies-Drugs Cost Lives! Protest Of Gilead & JP Morgan Profiteering Meeting (Labor Video) In America’s Prisons: Mumia and the Nightmarish Hepatitis C Epidemic (Counterpunch) Save NHS Bursaries: Nurses, Midwives, Allied Health Professionals Sat 9 Jan, St Thomas' Hospital, London Junior Doctors strikes: BMA statement and correspondence, picketing map, leaflet (BMA) How YOU can support the Junior Doctors (OurNHS) Emergency care only between 8am on Tuesday, 12 January and 8am on Wednesday, 13 January (24 hours) Emergency care only between 8am on Tuesday, 26 January and 8am on Thursday, 28 January (48 hours) Full withdrawal of labour between 8am and 5pm on Wednesday, 10 February The NHS is headed for a Devolution Iceberg: Liverpool (OurNHS) London NHS devolution - "It's obvious to all but gullible, power-grabbing councillors - this is about dumping blame for closures" (OurNHS) Legal challenge to Unison General Secretary election Petition to Unison President Wendy Nicholls Thanks for taking the time to campaign and vote Not the end of the road #Unisongate: Why we must demand an independent Inquiry; Complaint to the Returning Officer Comment on misuse of UNISON resources ‘Damning evidence’ of abuse of union resources by paid officials in Unison’s general secretary election Junior Doctors strikes suspended To Our Fellow NHS Workers, Trade Unionists and Campaigners Junior doctors vote overwhelmingly for industrial action as BMA approaches Acas (BMA) Junior doctors vote yes to strike, yes for our patients, yes for the future of our NHS (OurNHS) Hunt’s incompetence driving docs strike vote (KONP) BMA sets dates for Junior Doctors strikes, pending ballot result Emergency care only — from 8am, Tuesday 1 December to 8am Wednesday 2 December Full walk out — from 8am to 5pm, Tuesday 8 December Full walk out — from 8am to 5pm, Wednesday 16 December Junior Doctors are fighting for the NHS's life, as Tories try to silence all healthworkers Letter to Junior Doctors from Barts Clinical Director for Orthopaedics & Trauma (p1) Letter to Junior Doctors (p2) UNISON: Drop the Trade Union Bill RMT: Right to Strike Trade Union Bill represents major attack on civil liberties in the UK (Liberty, BIHR, and Amnesty International) The Trade Union Bill is an attack on the NHS (Our NHS) Get Your Bombs Off Our Lawn The Arms Industry and the University of Liverpool Transformative Research Legacies: Joseph Rotblat 8 June University of Liverpool Dear Elbit workers 4 Oct: TUC demonstration at Conservative Party Conference 2 Nov: TUC mass lobby of Parliament – protect the right to strike Healthy Liverpool: Gambling with Our Future Remembering Bill Hunter OUR HEALTH – OR THEIR WEALTH? Healthy Liverpool: Gambling with Our Future 100 hours to save the NHS: Labour's Manifesto analysed (Open Democracy) Bring Back the NHS Keep Our NHS Public: Demands for the NHS Virgin on Insanity Marathon Whitewash of the NHS Grab (KONP leaflet at London Marathon) Sign Letter to Support the NHS Reinstatement Bill KONP protest Labour's NHS "profits cap" as Ed Miliband speaks in Manchester 21 Apr 11am MMU Campaign for the NHS Reinstatement Bill SNP backs NHS Reinstatement Bill MPs table NHS Reinstatement Bill Sacked union leader Charlotte Munro reinstated Charlotte Munro Reinstated by Barts Trust Mid-Yorks Trust breaches Agenda for Change and collective agreement flashback: Mid-Yorks 3 day strike against downbanding and pay cuts 2012 background: Mid-Yorks strike report and donations Reclaim the Union: for a fighting, democratic Unison DevoManc Demo against NHS Devolution 29 March Manchester Tory Spending Devolution to Manchester Spells Disaster for NHS (John Lister, Morning Star) MANCHESTER - The Birth & Death of the NHS Gtr Manchester KONP opposes DevoManc Gtr Manchester Test Bed for Five Year Forward Plan to Destroy NHS GREATER MANCHESTER HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE DEVOLUTION Memorandum of Understanding NHS Pay: UNISON Health Exec March 3rd 2015 NHS Pay: Reject this Rotten Offer! (Health Worker) Pay Offer Spreadsheet The Destruction of Community Based GP Services 999 Convention for the NHS 28 Feb London NHS Rally 10 March People's Convention for the NHS 11 Apr Today in the Commons - the Efford Bill (Peter Roderick) Efford's "Save the NHS" Bill - does it do what it says on the tin? (Caroline Molloy, OurNHS) Efford Bill: a framework in which privatisation can flourish Royal Liverpool PFI: A Threat to Our Future NHS Charges: First they came for the Immigrants NHS: Three to Four days The people of Madrid resist the health invaders! The White Tide for Health in Spain London demo report and video Royal Liverpool: New Hospital Yes, PFI No! Trust defends PFI plan for ‘best hospital in countryÂ’ Princes Park Health Centre (pdf) Liverpool PCT broke procedure in handing GP surgeries to SSP Health Peterborough TUC appeal re PFI Peterborough: Trust’s £2bn PFI fiasco could wreck our NHS! Liverpool: Choose NHS - Scrap PFI No to PFI - Royal Liverpool hospital demo 6 Dec Keep Our NHS Public letter to Clinical Commissioning Groups South-West pay cartel demo 1 Dec Bolton NHS FT faces £38million cuts Mid-Yorks 3 day strike against downbanding and pay cuts Mid-Yorks strike report and donations Yunus Bakhsh: The fighter who refused to go down (Socialist Worker) The attack on Agenda for Change: Heads of Agreement Future of AfC: Unison consultation in South East region 10 reasons to reject NHS Pay Cuts Open letter: Defend AFC NHS Yes... PFI No! (PDF) Mid-Yorkshire hospitals strike against downbandings: Wakefield rally Thurs 1 Nov Mid-Yorkshire admin strike 88% YES vote Victory for Yunus Bakhsh as Trust pays dearly for sacking Stroud Victory: A landmark triumph for people power! London Hospitals Five demonstrations to save London’s hospitals Stop A&E closures: March to Ealing hospital 15 Sept Save Central Middlesex Hospital: Demo 15 Sept Ealing Hospital and ICO Staff Side handout Hospitals Petition Form Ealing Hospital Unite Newsletter Aug 2012 (download 4 Mb Publisher document) Toxicology unit at St Thomas’s Hospital threatened with closure Mid-Yorkshire Hospital UNISON Admin & Clerical staff dispute Royal Free Radiographers strike as private patients get priority Unite: Colindale Blood Transfusion faces strike Report from Unison Health Service Group Executive AGM Unison North West Regional health committee 16/7/12 Anger as Commissioning Groups rubber-stamp massive hospital cuts in West London (Health Emergency) UNISON calls for ‘Facts not Fiction’ on South West NHS pay Leaked document reveals Pay Cartel to undermine Agenda for Change Derriford Unison petition Plymouth NHS Trust Oxfordshire PCT stewards reject Agenda for Change retreat Gov’t moving to impose NHS pensions offer South London Hospitals threat: KONP London 28 June Will you still need me... when I'm 64 Animation: Trafford General 7 July 2012 http://savetraffordgeneral.com Going South with the PFI (Health Policy Insight) NHS Birmingham strike over pay cuts Keep GloucestershireÂ’s NHS Public: Stroud 16 June Keep Our NHS Public AGM + National Conference 23 June Oxfordshire PCT Stewards’ newsletter Doctors to take industrial action over pensions 21 June (BMA) NHS GMB members 96.5% vote to reject pensions deal, on 30% turnout NHS strike 10 May: Unite events and picket lines NHS strike 10 May: London map Unison NHS Pensions Ballot: Report from Health Service Exec Comments on Unison NHS Pensions Ballot Unison NHS Pensions Ballot, Unite-PCS-UCU strike 10 May Social Enterprises, Pensions Ballot, and PFI Unite healthworkers to step up pensionsÂ’ fight on 10 May PCS civil servants pensions action starts with strike 10 May Pensions: Building for strike action Report from Unison Health Exec 4 April 2012 Democracy in Unison NHS Pensions: Report of Unison Health Service Exec 21 March Serco preferred bidder for Suffolk community services Health Bill passes — Campaign Begins Greek healthworkers strike Update from the Greek hospital under workers control Greek hospital now under workers’ control NHS bill: keeping parliament in dark is a constitutional outrage Lords asked to consider Risk Register Too Risky to tell the Public? Faculty of Public Health Risk Assessment of Health Bill video: Save Our NHS rally 580,000 and rising: please sign by Monday morning and forward to contacts https://secure.38degrees.org.uk/Save-our-NHS Medics to challenge Con-Dem MPs at next election Oxford sit-in protests Health Bill Corporate Watch investigate tax-dodging private health firms NHS Consultants appeal to the Queen Tomorrow’s Doctors write to Prime Minister NHS public meeting Hackney 29 March Vote in 38 degrees poll: Organise a huge march against the Health & Social Care Bill TUC Save Our NHS rally: Len McCluskey TUC Save Our NHS rally: John Lister video: BMA feeder march to TUC rally TUC Save Our NHS rally: Alex Scott-Samuel TUC rally Save Our NHS 7 March London United statement from BMA, RCM, RCN, CSP The Lib Dem conference and the NHS Bill Lib-Dem conference: NHS campaigners comment “Constitutional Outrage” if Bill passed without Parliament examining risks Opposition debate 13 Mar, Whitehall Demo 17 Mar, BMJ article Keep Our NHS Public Gateshead leafletting TUC Gateshead Rally for the Alternative Swindon 5 day strike starts International Women's Day 8 Mar Swindon hospital strike against Carillion bullies Carillion: 12 more days of strike (GMB) Video: GMB Swindon hospital strike - We will win against racist bullies (Union News) Pensions: UNITE Consultative Vote and recommendation Pensions: UNISON Health Exec postpones decision on Heads of Agreement photo: Tom Bimpson Keep Our NHS Public Merseyside press release 1 Mar Demonstration against privatisation of the NHS: 3 Mar A4 poster for Liverpool NHS demo 3 March Save Our NHS Rally – Manchester Saturday 3 March Indian nurses strike (libcom.org) Liverpool doctor John Ashton “outraged” by disciplinary hearing over Health Bill criticism "Summit of the Uninvited" Protest Downing St. Mon 20 Feb e-petition: Drop the Health Bill OccupyHarvard & OccupyBoston engulf private health lobbyist Lobby & Pressurise Simon Hughes To Stop NHS Privatisation 25 Feb London lobbies and demos against the Health Bill e-petition: RCN call a national demo against the Health Bill John Lister: Health and Social Care Bill - Unpicking the spin Lord David Owen: Still Fatally Flawed – the Proposed NHS for England The consequences of abandoning the Health and Social Care Bill (BMJ) Fighting for Pensions - Against NHS Privatisation RCGP calls for PM to withdraw Health Bill BMA response to RCGP call to scrap Health Bill Royal College of Midwives calls for Bill to be shelved Chartered Society of Physiotherapists says Withdraw health bill now Whiston and St Helens Hospitals to be bailed out of PFI debts by Government £1.5bn fund Royal Liverpool Joint Staff-side demo against PFI and Private Patients Permit 27 Jan UNISON Oxfordshire Health requests Special Conference of Health Service Group Adrian O'Malley: Report from UNISON Health Exec 10 Jan 2012 Karen Reissmann: Report from UNISON Health Exec 10 Jan 2012 UNISON South-East region debates NHS Pensions Unison Oxfordshire Health rejects Heads of Agreement UNISON Oxfordshire Health Branch to debate pensions offer UNITE: Health Sector National Committee dump pensions offer Unite unanimously rejects NHS pensions offer The assault on universalism: how to destroy the welfare state (BMJ) Carillion PFI: Swindon NHS Ballot Why the Gov’t won’t publish NHS Bill Risk Register Why BMA is opposing the Health and Social Care Bill BMA briefing to Peers on opposing whole Bill 30 November: Liverpool photoreport 30 November: Leicester, Cambridge, Bristol Fighting for Pensions - Against NHS Privatisation Report from UNISON Health Service Exec 22 Nov 2011 ‘ProofÂ’ government plans to privatise the NHS Wigan & Leigh NHS campaigns to support 30th November strike UNITE: 75% vote for pensions strike Society of Radiographers: Industrial action supported by 8504 votes to 1648 Physiotherapists overwhelming vote for action Circle Healthcare plans Manchester NHS gateway hospital UNISON Extraordinary Health Executive 3.11.11 One item - Pensions NHS pensions: towards 30 Nov Yunus Bakhsh: North East health bosses criticised by employment judge Blood Money campaign scores major victory Outside and inside the RCGP conference, with Andrew Lansley Questions for the Lords Public Health doctors call for Bill to be scrapped BMA renews call for Bill to be withdrawn NMC ‘clarifiesÂ’ that official industrial action does not breach nursing code Manchester 3 Oct Tory Party Conf NHS Campaigners press Lords to challenge LansleyÂ’s flawed Health Bill Block the Bridge, Block the Bill (YouTube) UK Uncut to shut down Westminster Bridge in protest over NHS bill Grasp the nettle now - before itÂ’s too late (John Lister, Morning Star) Legal Action Launched to Stop NHS Social Enterprise Plans Defend NHS Pensions NHS: Prepare for Battle Letter in The Times from over 400 doctors Letter from Prof Harry Keen to a Conservative MP Royal Liverpool demo to defend the NHS MPs who vote for Andrew LansleyÂ’s Bill will destroy the NHS Unhealthy and Unwise: Press Conf to launch dossier on Health Bill 6 Sept House of Commons Demonstrate Tues 6 Sept Royal Liverpool hospital: Health Bill, Cuts, Pensions Flyer for Joint Trade Union rally Royal Liverpool hospital Tues 6 Sept (Word) London protests 7 Sept Grim Reaper returns to Atherton 3 Sept Liberating the NHS: source and destination of the Lansley reform (pdf) Royal Liverpool Hosp Consultant: Health Bill will undermine principles of NHS 20 Liverpool doctors: Health Bill will cause irreparable harm UNISON: halt the Health and Social Care Bill GP petition against Health Bill Stop Closure of Manchester Mental Health Unit 25 Aug Keep Our NHS Public, Toxteth 24 Aug Keep Our NHS Public - London 31 Aug Kill Lansley's NHS Bill (Updated) Video: EMERGENCY!: The Battle to Save the NHS (Reel News) Save OUR Maternity Services at Fairfield General Hospital, Bury UNISON Oxfordshire Health - Pensions Q&A Save Royal Alexandra Hospital Kids Ward NHS ‘Grim Reaper’ protest in Wigan Health Bill: Letter to Shirley Williams RCGP: Health bill should be amended again or withdrawn (Pulse Today) BMA prepares to call on MPs to derail health bill (Pulse Today) BMA rejects Health and Social Care Bill Sir Roger Boyle: “It is horrific that the NHSÂ’s future is threatened” (Independent) Is competition law bad for patients? (BMJ) UNISON North-West Regional Health Committee report UNISON Health Service Exec report The NHS needs reform and accountability - not opening up of the market What patient choice will mean in practice Protest Andrew Lansley Manchester 7 July NHS Birthday London demo report Celebrate and Defend the NHS: KONP Merseyside leaflet Celebrate and Defend the NHS - London demo 5 July NHS birthday demo 12-2 Tues 5 July Royal Liverpool Hosp Celebrate and Defend the NHS - Vote down the Health Bill! Bury the Bill! (BMJ Editorial) BMA members defy leadership to call for health bill to be scrapped (Pulse) Briefing on the Health Bill amendments - Still Dark (SHA) Weakening the Sec of State’s responsibility - write to Scrutiny! Defend Our NHS - transcript of Liverpool public meeting Liverpool TUC, Royal Liv & B'green Hosps Joint Staff-side, Keep Our NHS Public: 22 June (PDF) Lansley clings to Any Qualified Provider (False Economy) Allyson Pollock: A return to pre-NHS fear (Guardian) Saving the NHS: the fight goes on Some comments on the Gov't response to NHS Future Forum Scrap the Health & Social Care Bill Keep Our NHS Public - Wigan 20 June The NHS we need and deserve Letter to Lansley: a plan without evidence Please use Search form with keywords "NHS" or "PFI" or "NHS Pay"... for more coverage. SOUTH AFRICA NUMSA press statement on the crisis in COSATU NUMSA rejects claims of violence Background to the strike NUMSA response to allegations by former members Resolutions at NUMSA Congress 2013 G4S in South Africa: Mangaung prison is a private hell G4S in South Africa: State seizes bedlam-riven Bloem prison Who benefits as COSATU suspends Vavi? Letters of support for Wits students charged over Israel protest MaziBuko Jara From South Africa Reports On Marikana Miner's Struggle The Strike Wave and New Workers’ Organisations (SACSIS) Call to Cosatu workers to unite with striking mineworkers (DLF) Police disperse striking miners protest at Cosatu rally Marikana massacre inquiry reveals Ramaphosa email on eve of massacre Kumba miners strike committee statement Marikana prequel: NUM and the murders that started it all (Jared Sacks) Marikana massacre: a turning point (Martin Legassick) Mine workers hope lies in mass action (Mail & Guardian) Neville Alexander COSATU outrage at charges against miners NPA withdraws charges NPA defends charges Lonmin: ICTUR letter to Jacob Zuma In memory of our fallen African brothers in Marikana Lonmin: the questions that need answers Lonmin strikers vow to defy dismissal threat (Mail & Guardian) Lonmin video(Mail & Guardian) Lonmin threatens mass dismissals Lonmin’s Burning: industrial and political background as police shoot miners More South Africa coverage BDS: ACTIONS IN SOLIDARITY WITH PALESTINE Historic Landslide BDS Vote by Grad Student Union at University of California (Labor for Palestine) University of California Labor Union Makes History with BDS Vote (Tikkun) IWW supports BDS (Labor for Palestine) Response to Greg Dropkin (Jack Heyman) Reply to Jack Heyman: Setting the record straight (Greg Dropkin) Jack Heyman: Fighting Zionist Oppression – For Workers Action or BDS? BDS: reply to Jack Heyman (Greg Dropkin) How Protests Against Israeli Bombing of Gaza Stopped Zim Ships (Jack Heyman, Counterpunch) ZIM Beijing skips Oakland, heading West across the Pacific Last reported at 2014-Oct-27 20:00 UTC. Time now 2014-Oct-30 08:11 UTC. Position N 27°36' W 144°18'.Sailwx tracker The American Resistance to Israel (Paul Larudee, Dissident Voice) Why we are blocking the boat (Mondoweiss) Stop ZIM Action Committee see also Docks Palestinian Civil Society Salutes California Dockworkers, Endorses their “Block-the-Boat” BDS Action Transport Workers Solidarity Committee response to ILWU International on ZIM protests Liverpool Friends of Palestine message to ILWU Local 10 and Oakland/SF activists Zionist Organization of America head calls for arrest of Block the Boat protesters Liverpool dockers solidarity message to ILWU Local 10 Stop ZIM Action Committee solidarity message to ILWU Local 10 Zim Shanghai leaves Oakland without unloading Palestinian Civil Society Salutes California Dockworkers Bay Area activists again prevent unloading of Israeli ship (Electronic Intifada) Oakland action continues against Zim Shanghai 27 Sept Protesters picket another Zim vessel in Oakland (JOC 27 Sept) The unpublicized impact of a successful BDS action Video: ILWU Rank and File Back Picket Of Zim ship Piraeus At Port Of Oakland Letter from Barcelona Coordinadora to ILWU Locals 10 & 34 Protests targeting Zim to continue in Tacoma, Seattle Tacoma, Seattle protest plans Zim Piraeus unloads, leaves Oakland Zim Ship targeted by protesters makes U-turn, heads back to Oakland Zim Piraeus forced to leave Port of Oakland after Labor Community Pickets and ILWU Refusal to Work Video & Audio: Mass march against Zim Piraeus in the Port of Oakland Dockers honour picket line, prevent Zim ship offloading Zim Piraeus remains at sea as thousands block Port of Oakland (Guardian) Flashback 2010: Blockade: Dockers respond to Israel’s Flotilla Massacre and Gaza Siege 2009: Durban: Victory for Workers Solidarity Mass picket Zim ship Oakland 16 August call for global action on Gaza UNITE Liverpool letter to the Captain of Charlotte Borchard Gaza: End the Siege (Liverpool leaflet) STAND WITH PALESTINIAN WORKERS IN GAZA: A CALL FOR TRADE UNION SOLIDARITY full text www.bdsmovement.net/2014/stand-with-palestinian-workers-in-gaza-a-call-for-trade-union-solidarity-12404 www.cosatu.org.za/show.php?ID=9229 Excerpts The Palestinian trade union movement, with support from with support from the Congress of South African Trade Unions and its affiliates, is unanimously calling on trade unions internationally to take immediate action to stop the Israeli massacre in Gaza and hold Israel to account for its crimes against the Palestinian people. We ask you to consider the following actions: * Stop handling goods imported from or exported to Israel, * Divest your trade union pension — and other — funds from Israel Bonds as well as from corporations and banks that are complicit in Israel’s occupation and human rights violations * Dissociate from Israeli trade unions which are complicit in the occupation * Support our call for a military embargo on Israel * Share information with your members about the siege and destruction of Gaza and ask your members to boycott Israeli products and to share their knowledge with family, co-workers, and friends. Today more than ever, solidarity with Palestinians workers and their families in Gaza and the rest of the occupied Palestinian territory is an essential component of progressive, principled trade union politics. Given the complete failure and unwillingness of governments to hold Israel accountable to international law there is widespread recognition that Israel’s occupation must be isolated by the pressure of civil society. We rely on our brothers and sisters in the trade union movement internationally to continue a proud tradition of international solidarity and to stand with us as you stood with the struggle against apartheid in South Africa. Issued by the following Palestinian trade unions: Palestinian General Federation of Trade Unions-Gaza General Union of Palestinian Workers Union of Professional Association Federation of Independent Trade Unions With the support of: Congress of South African Trade Unions G4S Stop G4S OCS, not G4S to provide security at Labour conference G4S spurns Labour offer of conference security contract As Labour asks G4S to provide conference security, a reminder of why the boycott is right G4S: A Briefing for Trade Unionists (Stop G4S 2014) Scandal of G4S-run Medway youth jail deepens as five more arrested (Guardian 26 June 2016) Why Labour should boycott G4S as a provider of security to its conference (Left Futures July 2014) Labour Party will boycott G4S security services over repression of Palestinians (Left Futures Nov 2015) G4S won't guard BBC (Stop G4S March 2014) Labour Party will boycott G4S security services over repression of Palestinians (Left Futures) G4S Briefing for Trade Unionists (full reference version) CONSTRUCTION Blacklisted: The Secret War Between Big Business and Union Activists Campaigners welcome undercover police inquiry (Liverpool Echo) How local authorities can block the blacklisters Campaigners welcome MEPs move on blacklisting Another construction blacklist revealed Jack Kennedy plaque invite Firm linked to blacklist given a seat on the HSE board FACK join Crane protest against deregulation Lives at risk - massive attack on health and safety! Crane protest DWP London 3 July 5th Anniversary of the Battersea Crane collapse 20 Sep Construction Safety Campaign AGM 26 Nov Westfield: three serious incidents in one week Construction: Protest 35% pay cut & deskilling - Manchester Blacklist Buccaneer Balfour Beatty wins safety award BLACKLISTED video on YouTube Don't jail Ark Tribe: London 23 Nov Construction Safety Campaign AGM 20 Nov Liverpool Justice My Arse!: Shrewsbury 24 and Blacklisted workers Benefit 4 Dec London Parliamentary Book Launch: Construction Safety Campaign 13 Oct London Blacklisted: TUC Fringe meeting and new video Leaflet for Blacklisted TUC Fringe mtg + video (Word) Corus worker killed on site, again Death at Lindsey Oil Refinery: Unite calls for independent inquiry Union rep who stood up for safety faces jail South African miners condemn xenophobic construction company Realcorp Blacklist campaign condemns lack of protection in UK law Crane safety win for Battersea Crane Disaster Action Group Blacklist: progress for Steve Acheson Blacklist: Defend Steve Acheson: Fiddlers Ferry 16 Feb 7am Organising the Union at the Media City construction site Blacklist: Protest lobby Employment Tribunal Manchester 24 Nov Construction Safety Campaign: Ban Lead Now! CSC AGM with Rita Donaghy 14 Nov London Justice for Shrewsbury Pickets: London 9 Nov Blacklist: Steve Acheson victory at High Court Blacklisted electrician charged under Terrorism Act! Blacklisted electrician hounded by company Bricklayer wins Balfour blacklist compensation hearing Mandelson urged to strengthen blacklist law Construction Safety Campaign AGM (PDF) Blacklisted builders protest Laing O'Rourke Bury 27 Aug Israel: Irish construction giant digs deeper in Occupation Lindsey Oil Refinery victory Lindsey Oil Refinery strike: 900 sacked, support grows Shrewsbury 24 March and Rally 4th July Wembley death contractor to be sentenced at Old Bailey 9 July Health and Safety in South Yorkshire Construction Sector Exposing the construction blacklist Justice for the Shrewsbury 24: Lobby Parliament 12 Mar RMT branch letter to Lindsey strikers Healthworkers: Wildcat construction strikes - how should we react? Lindsey refinery strikers victory for all workers Update on the spreading strikes by construction engineers in the refinery and power industry UNISON: WHOSE UNION? OUR UNION! Vote for a fighting leadership: Unison NEC London Region Victory for Unison 4 at Employment Appeal Tribunal Bromley Unison members leave Unison - Stay and Fight! Newham Unison suspension lifted finally! Havering Unison Lobby Wednesday 25 May Defend the 4 meeting London Tues 22 Feb Employment Tribunal finds socialists were unfairly disciplined by UNISON Unison United Left: Dawn Raids on union offices Defend the Four: Dawn Raids protest at Unison HQ Mon 15 Mar Caroline Bedale: Disciplinary Appeal 6 and 8 April Jon Rogers: report to London Unison branches on union democracy Dawn Raids on Unison Offices Certification Officer: UNISON breached union rules in NEC election Sheffield UNISON calls Public Sector lobby 5 March Defend the Four - newsletter and lobby 24 Feb London Darlington - fighting cuts with one hand tied behind back? Alan Docherty: Who’s Next? Manchester Metropolitan University redundancies: Defend Jobs, Education and Trade Unionism - demo 10 Feb Support Caroline Bedale: Mcr 6 Feb Support John McDermott Reclaim the Union: UNISON-sponsored MP John McDonnell backs call to investigate London UNISON officials Support Caroline Bedale Letters of outrage and support for Caroline Bedale Support Caroline - People should try to speak freely Mass redundancies at Manchester Metropolitan University Defend the Four - Glenn Kelly hearing 29 Oct Defend the Four - Employment Tribunal revelations Witchunt finds 4 socialists guilty - of what? Letter to Dave Prentis: BNP activity and UNISON Northern Region Lobby Liverpool City Council to defend in-house Home Care Service ENEHL: further strikes start 7 Oct Leeds: victimisation of trade union official by ENEHL Leeds: ENEHL rally 27 Aug Local government strikes 16-17 July, Scottish ballot opens (UNISON) Victimisation for trade union activities Stop the victimisation of John McDermott East North East Housing Leeds strike 9 July East North East Housing Leeds dispute Witchunt: Statement by John McDonnell MP Is there a Witchunt in UNISON? London 23 July Defend Yunus Bakhsh Yunus Bakhsh: Certification Officer finds UNISON broke own rules (PDF) Tony Staunton: Certification Officer finds UNISON broke own rules (PDF) Flashback: Statement by Tony Staunton (Nov 2006) Defend the union’s democratic structures for NHS pay see NHS for Karen Reissman see NHS for Palestine see Israel and Palestine PUBLIC SECTOR STRIKES Higher Education: Unison Higher Education: UCU Higher Education: Unite Unity in Action statement FBU Probation CWU Joint statement CWU - Royal Mail DOCKERS AND PORTWORKERS Dockers will turn out to stop fascists in San Francisco Automation: Class War on the Waterfront ILWU: It's time to stand up! Ask questions and demand answers! ILWU Contract Dispute Over? Comment on Anthony Leviege interview Jack Heyman: An Open Letter to Paul Bigman and Labor Notes Paul Bigman, Mike Pellegrini: Responses to Open Letter The ILWU leadership has accepted a deal that will further cripple their union Liverpool dockers ponder industrial action ballot (Lloyd's List) Longshore union faces the grain monopolies: Will labor solidarity prevail? The ILWU Longshore Struggle in Longview and Beyond (Counterpunch) Alexander Cockburn, friend of the ILWU longshoremen Aussie Longshoreman interview Labor Forum: Longview And the Struggle Ahead, San Francisco 29 July ILWU members and retirees: EGT-Longview Longshore Contract - Worst Ever! Gothenburg solidarity strike with Tilbury Gothenburg dockers prepare strike solidarity with Tilbury The Tilbury Dispute (IDC) Occupy the Bridge: Golden Gate Ferry workers strike May Day Solidarity message from Coordinadora, Spain Solidarity from CGT Marseille, France Docks Update Please use Search form with keywords "ports" or "docks" or "dockers" or "dockworkers" for more coverage. CIVIL SERVICE Latest action against cuts to jobs, terms and conditions and service PCS walkout at Bury County & Magistrates Court PCS court staff and lawyers on strike demo at M'cr courts Legal Aid: These are not just cuts! Defend access to justice for all Liverpool court staff strike over pay and workload (Liverpool Echo) PCS Action updates Industrial action for sacked Home Office worker update 8 March DVLA staff to strike Position of minister 'untenable' after border jobs scandal Transport workers continue strikes against cuts Cuts threat to community cohesion sparks strike at Equality & Human Rights Commission Thousands of jobcentre staff start strike vote Home Office management misled staff before announcing job cuts New MPs inquiry into coastguard cuts Keep the Forests in public ownership PCS: Excellent support on first day of call centre strike Redundancy pay: 90% vote to reject cuts in Consultative Ballot Court closures will deny huge areas access to local justice Parliamentary Human Rights committee sides with PCS against government cuts PCS responds to Francis Maude on redundancy pay Minister reneges on promise to protect lowest paid civil servants facing redundancy Work experience offered at Home Office as 7, 000 job cuts loom Defence cuts made on ‘predetermined timetableÂ’ Office closures will make British passport less secure Non-departmental public bodies provide vital services Treasury scuppering talks over civil service redundancy pay IT workers take industrial action after Â’insultingÂ’ pay offer Capita workers fight poverty pay MPs urged to throw out attempt to cut civil service redundancy pay Mass job losses loom as justice cuts revealed UnionÂ’s evidence busts myth pensions are unreformed and unaffordable Welfare reforms doomed to fail under cuts agenda for previous reports type PCS in Search form for coverage of the Reamsbottom affair type NATO or TUCETU in Search form WYATT MCMINN Labor Activist Wyatt McMinn faces jail for protesting “Right to Work” union-busting Wyatt McMinn: background to a frame-up TURKEY Turkish unions call strike over protest violence (Al Arabiya) Eyewitness to a public uprising PEOPLE'S ASSEMBLY The People's Assembly Against Austerity FIREFIGHTERS Firefighters put seven-point pensions plan to ministers and seek new talks for previous coverage use keyword "FBU" in search form HAZARDS - CORPORATE CRIME Tackling Occupational Cancer should mean preventing it New Scheme for Untraced Insurance but 50% Asbestos Victims Excluded Workers Memorial Day 28 April 2012 Manchester WMD Manchester poster (PDF 2.5Mb) Workers Memorial Day 28 April London Battersea Crane Disaster Inquest Verdict due Mon 12 Mar Workers Memorial Day 28 April 2012 Tortured Science: Health Studies, Ethics and Nuclear Weapons in the United States From Recession to Depression – Stress Network conf 26-27 Nov Bham FACK Families to meet Professor Lofstedt over health & safety review Rising numbers of people killed at work Hazards: Right to Work campaign 10 May London WMD: Protest at DWP on Workers Memorial Day, April 28th WMD: Waltham Forest Workers Memorial Day, April 28th WMD: Hazards Campaign answers Grayling The Sixty-Five: MTUC health & safety 16 Apr Salford Workers International Memorial Day 28 Apr (PDF) Regulations donÂ’t kill jobs but lack of regulations kill workers! Corporate Manslaughter Hazards: Bin Lord Young’s biased review of health & safety FACK: Lord Young’s Report “a mass of unsubstantiated prejudices, myths and nonsense” Lord Young, Face the FACKs! Lord Young, We didn’t vote to die at work We didn’t vote to die at work: Liverpool 4 Sept Cancer in microelectronics industry - HSE claims refuted Asbestos in schools: Unison Waltham Forest slams council Buncefield directors slip through net Worker death rates and HSE data Families issue Safety Challenge to Lord Young and Prime Minister No evidence for deregulating health & safety Asbestos protest at Canada House, London 1 July WMD commemoration for workers killed on London Olympics site Workers Memorial Day 28 April 2010 - London demos Hazards: Vote to save your life at work FACK: Tell us youÂ’ll stand up for workers safety before we vote for you When will Biffa and other serial killing directors be held to account? When will Corus and other serial killing directors be held to account? Hazards comments on election manifestos Fack condemns Health and Safety Report Anger at soft sentencing guidelines for employers who kill Government recognises WMD - Hazards Campaign comment Bhopal - Corporate Crime Day 3 Dec FACK condemns David CameronÂ’s attack on health and safety 25th anniversary of Bhopal disaster: Wed 2 Dec Bhopal arrest warrant: commentary The Bhopal disaster and its aftermath: a review (Environmental Health) Shoes, Glues, and Homework Hazards website Please use Search form with keywords "hazards" or "safety" or "WMD" or "FACK" for more coverage. ISRAEL – PALESTINE Fearing Jewish attacks, 100 Arab bus drivers in Jerusalem quit their jobs (Ha'aretz) Victory against Veolia: St Louis campaigners win! On the ground in occupied Palestine Letters of support for Wits students charged over Israel protest BBC: Stop G4S bidding now! G4S and BBC security contract Veolia remains key BDS target Palestinian Farmers Union: Sanctions against Israeli settlements Palestinian workers in the Mishor Edomim Zone Israel continues to bomb Gaza, 22 killed 3 Palestinian journalists killed by Israeli strike on press car Two Palestinians killed in West Bank protests on Gaza Israeli Mayor: Expel Nazareth Palestinians for opposing war Urgent Gaza Action: Stop Arming Israel G4S offices occupied over role in siege on Gaza SOAS occupation for Gaza Batsheva disrupted inside, festival for Gaza outside UN Special Rapporteur Richard Falk urges North London Waste Authority to avoid Veolia GAZA - Actions you can take right now Trade UnionistsÂ’ declaration on Palestine and the Arab Revolutions PCHR: Ongoing Israeli Offensive on Gaza 18 Nov In Gaza, 3 days and nights without sleep Demonstrations across the West Bank protesting the assault on Gaza Batsheva: Anger at Gaza slaughter targets Sadler’s Wells Call Mr Robeson - “The Artist must take sides” 200 at Liverpool demo outside BBC Gaza journalists defiant after Israeli attack on media center (Electronic Intifada) BBC platform for former Zionist Federation official (New Left Project) BBC: Tell the truth on Gaza! Gaza Emergency demo Israeli Embassy London 17 Nov Stop a New Israeli Massacre in Gaza: Boycott Israel Now! (BNC) Veolia ends Wildlife Exhibition sponsorship Emergency demo 15 Nov: Israeli Embassy, London Emergency demo 17 Nov: March to Scottish Parliament, Edinburgh Nous accusons: media coverage fails context of Gaza attack (Noam Chomsky + 8) Gaza attack: statements 14 Nov Gaza under attack: PCHR report and photos 11 Nov Gaza attack: video report 11 Nov South Africans to protest toy store supporting JNF Swedish ship to Gaza: Israeli activists detained Estelle crew were beaten during the attack and by interrogators For some Israelis, Gazans receive 2,279 calories too many (Ha'aretz) Gaza: Barcelona dockers support the Freedom Flotilla Rachel Corrie verdict: without BDS, Israel will never comply with international law VIDEO: Activists in Gaza say — Remember Rachel Corrie by supporting BDS The Account of Moty Cristal South African firm complicit in Israeli occupation: Karsten Farms, Kalahari Dates Palestinian youth assert right to protest over repression (Palestinian Grassroots Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign) PA repression stokes the fires of Palestinian discontent (Jamal Juma'a) Palestinian Authority police brutality against anti-Mofaz protests (Stop the Wall) PCHR Strongly Condemns the Use of Force against Peaceful Demonstrations in Ramallah (PCHR) Unison, FBU and the Histadrut: Five steps forward, one step back Solidarity message to European unions from Palestinian trade unions Outrage as Israel refuses to hospitalise two hunger strikers Palestinian footballer remains on hunger strike, gravely ill Protesters thwart draconian security at Globe Theatre The Globe Brings the West Bank to London Picketing Israel's Fascist Foreign Minister in Hendon Protests at charity invitation to Israeli Foreign Minister COSATU backs DTI on relabeling of Palestinian products In South Africa, gathering storm over West Bank products Progress for Prisoners’ Movement: Palestinian Prisoners’ Mass Hunger Strike Concludes After Agreement is Reached Palestinian prisoners score heroic victory Lawyer: Administrative detainees agree to hunger strike deal Palestinian prisoners agree to end mass hunger strike Palestinian prisoners: their fate is in our hands New EDM: Administrative Detention in Palestine Hunger strikers surpass 70 days, Court rejects petition Ramallah: Stop the Wall office raided by Israeli military Veolia: Excluding Complicity with Israeli War Crimes 9 May London BDS movement applauds Co-op decision to exclude complicit companies Update on the Palestinian PrisonersÂ’ Hunger Strike 25 Apr Palestinian prisoners mass hunger strike Palestinian call for action against Israeli prison contractor G4S Independent Federation of Palestinian Unions Bil’n International Conference for Popular Resistance Jenin Twinning Conference Tribute to Vittorio Arrigoni 19 Apr Manchester STUC on release of Scottish citizens detained by Israel Jet2.com - Shame on you - Israel tells you what to do British women join Palestinian prisoners hunger strike Veolia: Birmingham protest on Land Day Officials say deal reached to free Hana Shalabi Why the silence? Hana Shalabi on day 40 of hunger strike as Israel rejects appeal (Electronic Intifada) Hana al-ShalabiÂ’s hunger strike: Listen to Ali Abunimah interview on Flashpoints Prisoners society: Shalabi in serious condition Hana Shalabi: Liverpool protest at BBC Thurs 29 Mar Israeli interrogated en route back to Israel for her activism in Palestinian cause ANC leader Ahmed Kathrada condemns Israeli apartheid Apartheid is a crime, not an analogy (Ma’an News Agency) MUCH MORE - CLICK HERE or use: Israel and Palestine more coverage WE WON’T PAY FOR THEIR CRISIS PCS: Support the European day of action EPSU: European day of action and solidarity – public service unions engage ETUC 14 November: European Day of Action and Solidarity Coalition of Resistance: Historic European strike day Communications blockade Francis Maude offices Liverpool solidarity demo 14 Nov Photoreport: London 20 October Music on the TUC March (YouTube) We marched together - now Strike Together! (NSSN) Low paid Capita workers to strike in Liverpool Traffic Wardens dispute hits Parliament (after a fashion) TUC vote for coordinated industrial action, possible general strike Pants still on fire? (Jon Rogers) LGPS 'deal' - the pluses and minuses (Camden Unison) Local Gov’t Pension Scheme: a report from Unison Service Group Exec LGPS Unison: Where have all the examples gone (Jon Rogers) Camden UNISON strike report NSL: Camden UNISON members on brink of historic action over low pay Camden Unison set for historic low pay strike 11-12 July Camden Unison Traffic Wardens 97.7% vote for pay fight DWP announces closure of major site in North West Unite warns of further London bus strikes NSSN conference 9 June London Camden Unison: Pay modernisation? No thanks! Addenbrookes cleaners protest Medirest pay cuts (Unison) messages of support: unison@addenbrookes.nhs.uk PCS strike over staffing shortages at Merseyside jobcentres (PCS) PCS overtime ban in pensions campaign After 10 May strike, overtime ban extended to 31 July (PCS) PCS Conference to step up pensions campaign 10 May PCS Live Blog Public servants strike again over “unnecessary” pension changes May Day celebrations Salford & Manchester 7 May Unite healthworkers to step up pensionsÂ’ fight on 10 May PCS civil servants pensions action starts with strike 10 May PCS: a Budget for the Rich Budget announcement on Local Pay spells danger for North West economy NHS Pensions: Report of Unison Health Service Exec 21 March Pensions - real progress in Unite PCS: Overwhelming votes to reject and fight pensions cuts NUT London pensions strike - 28 March UCU to take London-wide strike action in pensions row BMA postpones pensions roadshows and ballot UNISON Council Staff Step Up Industrial Action Greece: from Despair to Resistance possible public sector pension strikes late March FBU to recommend rapid move to prepare a national strike ballot on pensions UCU to ballot members over further strikes in pensions row UCU: Mark Campbell letter re March 28th Strike Action NUT: Say No to 68 PCS: Unions to consult on further pensions action Pensions: UNITE Health Sector Nat Cttee rejects Heads of Agreement Unions challenge shift from RPI to CPI 20 Feb High Court Stroud Victory against Social Enterprise UNISON: Lambeth calls for Special Conference on Pensions offer UNISON Oxfordshire Health requests Special Conference of Health Service Group UCU: letter from Mark Campbell UNITE: The pensions fight is on! Adrian O'Malley: Report from UNISON Health Exec 10 Jan 2012 Karen Reissmann: Report from UNISON Health Exec 10 Jan 2012 UNISON Pensions decisions UNISON suspends pension strikes PCS: Mark Serwotka calls for more action over pensions UNITE rejects LGPS agreement - what should UNISON do? UNITE rejects Local Government pensions offer UNISON South-East region debates NHS Pensions Lobby UNISON Service Group Execs Tues 10 Jan Waltham Forest Nursery Nurses protest pay cuts Unite: Analysis of the NHS Pensions Proposals UNISON members petition: Why we say ‘no dealÂ’ on pensions Unite rejects offer, BMA consults over industrial action Unison Oxfordshire Health rejects Heads of Agreement UNISON Oxfordshire Health Branch to debate pensions offer UNITE: Health Sector National Committee dump pensions offer Unite unanimously rejects NHS pensions offer PCS Left Unity conference for all union activists 7 Jan London Camden Unison on LGPS offer Unity must be maintained if we're to win (Morning Star) PCS: We can win pensions battle PCS strikes to stop call centre privatisations PCS reject civil service pension offer Camden Unison: What’s happening in the pensions dispute? NHS Pension Scheme Heads of Agreement UNISON: Update on NHS pension scheme UNISON refers offer to Health Service Exec UNITE Health Sector National Committee rejects “deal” Pensions: PCS calls for unity Petition: Don’t give up the pensions fight! View the signatories here: http://bit.ly/rJ8SGJ NSSN petition: Strike again in January! Defend our pensions! Pensions dispute update from Camden UNISON Br Sec Islington UNISON Br Cttee on Pensions dispute No sell-out on pensions! PCS: Unions call for extra money for fair pensions PCS: Maude misleads MPs again over pensions talks progress PCS: Millions fight pension changes PCS: 100,000 say reverse RPI-CPI pensions switch FBU: Pensions - Latest Position: Cost Ceilings YouTube: Liverpool City Council leader Joe Anderson calls protestors “scum” Sparks: the biggest unofficial strike in decades UNISON National Exec evaluates 30 November UNITE Executive Council statement following November 30th National Shop Stewards Network: 30 November 30 November: Liverpool photoreport 30 November: “What we are doing is a game changer” 30 November: Leicester, Cambridge, Bristol PCS: Unprecedented support for strike Fighting for Pensions - Against NHS Privatisation Palestinian unions solidarity with pension strikes Pensions - Palestine Liberate Oakland 19 Nov: Shut down the 1% Oakland: Massive Occupy Raid Imminent Occupy Oakland face imminent attack Communique to EGT from Occupy Oakland Occupy March Shuts Down Oakland Port General Strike Shuts Down Port of Oakland Unite the Resistance London 19 Nov Pensions and Disability UNISON hits back at pensions strike ballot attacks NHS pensions: towards 30 Nov UNISON 78% Yes vote (82% Yes in NHS) Action on 30 Nov still on PCS: Preparations continue for mass strike on pensions TV report: Thousands March To Occupy Oakland (KCRA) San Francisco Bay Area Indymedia Occupy Oakland Prepares for General Strike as War Veterans Organize Day of Action at Occupy Camps (Democracy Now!) Occupy Oakland: labor movement gears up for 2 Nov Defend Occupy Oakland with the muscle of organized labor (PDF) OWS report 27 Oct: Occupy Rising Iraq Veterans Against the War: Scott Olsen video and appeal Iraq War veteran critically injured in Oakland police clash (AP/Washington Post) Occupy Wall Street Report: Stop Bloomberg: Defend OWS Occupy Wall St. not Palestine! San Francisco: Clarence Thomas, ILWU Local 10 addresses Occupy Wall Street West rally, Oct. 12, 2011. ILWU Local 21 members Jake Whiteside and Byron Jacobs with ILWU local banners and sign reading "Give Us Our Jobs Back!" Occupy Wall St. Updates Transport Workers Union Local 100 supports Occupy Wall St. On charges of anti-semitism at Occupy Wall St. NSSN Bulletin 63 - VOTE YES for action! Senate House workers demo 3 Oct London Middlesex University UNISON votes to strike Middlesex University UNISON Branch Ballots for Industrial Action SERTUC newsletter and update - TUC day of action 30 November 2011 Dave Prentis speech at Labour Party conference Waltham Forest Council agree to cut lower paidÂ’s wages Waltham Forest Council still threaten staff with pay cuts or dismissal Under Attack: In Defence of the Public Sector Striking Greek teachers’ union to attend London Conference Against Austerity European left meet to debate response to crisis in Europe NSSN calls on TUC to open the floodgates of mass action NWTUC march to Tory Party Conf 2 Oct Mcr UNISON to ballot 1.1m re pensions PCS: Historic strike set for 30 November UNITE to ballot 250,000 re pensions GMB to ballot re pensions FBU takes first step towards industrial action ballot re pensions PCS decries MilibandÂ’s Â’slap in the faceÂ’ for public sector workers Senate House cleaners victory after unofficial strike Get to grips with PFI, MPs tell Treasury Southampton: UNISON - UNITE membership agree to continue strike action Southampton Council strike widens Southampton UNISON and UNITE strike 13 July (UNISON) Southampton UNISON strike updates ITF supports action by Southampton port health inspectors Hundreds of government IT workers in strike ballot over pay 50 Day Countdown to TUC March on Tory Party Conference PCS: Growth figures show there needs to be an alternative PCS: Withdraw pension plans that even Lansley opposes Waltham Forest unions gagged by Council Liverpool Job centre closure condemned Liverpool museums staff in strike vote over pay freeze An Apology UNISON NEC report: towards the Pension strikes UNISON Health Service Exec report Pensions strike 30 June - Liverpool photos Thousands on Liverpool pensions demo, teachers warn of more strikes (Liverpool Daily Post) Pensions Protest March to pass through Liverpool Public Sector strike - North West rallies 30 June Mobilisations in Greece against privatisation measures NAHT cautions against parents covering for striking teachers Head Teachers model letter to parents Birmingham UNISON strike 30 June after 76% Yes vote Camden Council sectional strike 30 June UNISON local strikes on 30 June UNISON Local Gov’t members to organise for ‘historic victory’ (UNISON) PCS strike against privatisation 17 June: Liverpool Public sector North-West strikes against cuts 30 June UNISON and UCU coordinated strike at London Met Uni - Wed 22 June Thinking about our Future, photos: Tom Bimpson Please use Search form for more coverage EDUCATION London Met UCU and UNISON: Amnesty Now! Save London Met! London Met University protest Home Office 1pm Wed 5 Sept UKBA Crisis: Joint UNISON-UCU meeting on London Met Univ Solidarity with the staff of St. GeorgeÂ’s School, Sefton, Liverpool, 3 September Salford University UCU strike report (Manchester TUC) Cambridge: over five hundred student and staff protest suspension of student University of Cambridge suspends student for 2 1/2 years for peaceful protest DISABILITY Remploy Head Office occupied (GMB) Disability support workers win sleepover wage Disability support workers action at IHC New Zealand Unions mark ‘International Day of Persons with DisabilitiesÂ’ New Zealand: Community Support Workers to strike over wage freeze New Labour proposal to abolish all disability benefits Roy Webb Welfare Reform: the ‘unthinkable’ about to happen? Welfare Reform Bill lobby and rally 4 Dec Learning Disabilities: organising against privatisation Campaign Against the Welfare Reform Bill lobbies Labour Conf. Stroll, Roll, Rally... against the Incap Cuts National demo against cuts in Disability Benefit Sheffield 17 June 24 out of 351 English Councils have 100% Disabled Access GMB comment on public procurement and disability Campaign for employees with a disability New Labour attack Disability Benefit Disability activists claim victory Manchester City Council bans disability action website Rover, T&GWU and Disability Discrimination Disability – a union issue The Union of the Physically Impaired Against Segregation RAIL / TUBE Rail privatisation in Israel and the Histadrut Canada: Workers consider occupation of Caterpillar locomotive plant (Guardian) Canadian labour at the crossroads (The Bullet) London Transport Regional Council joins Derail Veolia and Alstom Campaign RMT strike dates in vicimisations dispute RMT strike suspended RMT names strike dates in vicimisations dispute Reinstate sacked RMT Tube driver reps RMT announces further wave of strike action on Heathrow Express RMT demo against McNulty Report: Liverpool 28 June Fragmenting rail infrastructure Â’a recipe for disasterÂ’ London Transport playing ‘fast and loose’ with safety as strike looms Tube Safety Strike protest at Euston 7 Sept London Underground Ballot Result RMT renews call to scrap level crossings after Sudbury crash RMT to re-ballot as Network Rail injunction halts rail strike Tube Strike Ballot over safety, jobs, office closures National rail strike for maintenance and signals staff RMT vote nine to one for strike action on National Express East Anglia RMT members vote four to one for action at Arriva Cross Country RMT website ASLEF website for more please use Search form with keywords "RMT" or "ASLEF" or "rail" JAPAN Fukushima: On March 11 Doro Chiba Quake Report: March 11, Fukushima Anniversary video: From the Fighting Workers of Fukushima to Our Friends of the World Labornet Japan - English web page Fukushima women begin 10 day sit-in at Gov’t Ministry Fukushima University Students Fighting to Abolish Nuke Plants! Doro-Chiba Quake Report No. 29 Hiroshima Action on 66th Anniversary of A-bomb Fukushima Mothers and Farmers in Unity Japan: Education Ministry Forces Radiation Exposure on Children! Stand with Japanese workers: Oakland 23 Apr Labornet Japan: news in English Labornet Japan: full site (Japanese) Doro-Chiba: Tsunami and Nuke Plant Blasts is no natural disaster Doro-Chiba appeal 25 March PeopleÂ’s Earthquake Relief Center established Doro-Chiba (rail union): Let’s fight to live! Please send messages and contacts to support those in the massive earthquake / tsunami in Sendai, Japan www.xpdnc.com/links/fednatjp.html web-japan.org/links/business/labor/transportation.html www.doro-chiba.org/english/english.htm Last defence at Fukushima: 50 Japanese workers (NY Times) IRAN The Brutal Raid on Workers' Meeting (IASWI) False Flag: Israel's operation against Iran (Foreign Policy) Iran trade unionists threatened with deportation from Turkey IASWI newsletter 7 Dec: Committee in Defense of Reza Shahabi Stop Stoning and Sharia Laws! Saeed Torabian, board member of the Syndicate of Workers of Tehran and Suburb Vahed Bus Company arrested May Day Iran Iran more coverage HISTORY Liverpool Museum screening: Videos from the 1980s Lipstick Socialist: new blog on trade unions lipsticksocialist Alan Thornett: Militant Years 28 Sep Liverpool Striking a Light: The Matchwomen 11 Oct London 10th Working Class Bookfair 5 Nov Newcastle Gerard Winstanley descendant to open Wigan Diggers’ Festival Sat 10 Sept Jayaben Desai - Grunwick strike leader - commemoration, Brent TUC Sun 17 Apr Socialism in the 21st Century and the Russian Revolution Speke 1985 - Back to the Future?: Liverpool 24 Mar The Russian Revolution in Retreat: Liverpool 10 April The William Morris Hall Centenary - Sun 13 Dec Percy Fisher - long lost son of County Durham Working Class Bookfair - Durham 21 Nov Streamed Video: 1934 General Strike San Francisco commemorations Lessons of the 1934 General Strike: San Francisco 3 July The Russian Revolution in Retreat 1920-24 - now in paperback Miners strike: Train crews did refuse to move coal Miners' Strike 25th Anniversary Concert 15 Mar 25th anniversary of Miners Strike, 3rd Working Class Bookfair 14 Mar Margaret Thatcher dies on stage The Russian Revolution in Retreat, 1920-24 Soviet Workers and the New Communist Elite Blue Plaque for The Ragged Trousered Philanthropist author, Liverpool 3 Feb The Flying Pickets: 1972 buildersÂ’ strike and Shrewsbury trials Robert Tressell Commemoration Liverpool 3 Feb Ruth Frow celebration 5 Apr Salford Ruth Frow - Trade Union hero dies Pentonville Dockers commemmoration 28 July London Sylvia Pankhurst Memorial Lecture 17 Aug Sheffield Sylvia Pankhurst Festival International Women’s Day: Manchester event 10 March Manchester TUC 140th anniversary celebration 13 Dec Grunwick commemoration London 17 Sept. Grunwick 30th Anniversary: Brent TUC event Spanish Civil War Exhibition - Manchester International Brigaders Dave Chapple: Henry Suss and the Jewish working-class of Manchester and Salford Anti-fascist martyr Szmul Zygielbojm and the Warsaw Ghetto Rising Staying Red: Why I remain a socialist – Norman Harding LaborFest 2004 - 70th Anniversary of San Francisco General Strike Al Richardson is dead ESF Seminar: Where does anti-capitalism come from? Suffragette Centenary Strikes during Wartime LABORFEST 2012 LaborFest 2012 Calendar San FranciscoÂ’s LaborFest Looks to Occupy The Past, Present and Future RIOTS HazCam warning on PM riot claim An Open Letter to David Cameron’s Parents Looters apologise to communities FBU: Attacks on fire crews must stop before people die Fire crews sickened by MPs silence over fire service cuts PCS: these disturbances did not happen in a vacuum UNITE: Calm and reconnection needed to stop community unrest Tower Hamlets: Stop a riot Birmingham riots: intense anger after deaths of three young men (Guardian) If the rioting was a surprise, people werenÂ’t looking (Guardian) Late riots? National Shop Stewards Movement statement on riots FIGHT RACISM DEFEND MIGRANTS London Met UCU and UNISON: Amnesty Now! Save London Met! London Met University protest Home Office 1pm Wed 5 Sept New Zealand: Foreign journalists banned from asylum processing centre Troy Davis is executed. The struggle continues. Don’t Execute Troy Davis Dale Farm Residents plea for solution through negotiations Dale Farm Travellers ask Basildon Council: Where will we go? Dale Farm Travellers Sept. 11 NYC: Emergency Mobilization against Racism, War and Anti-Muslim Bigotry Bradford 12: lessons for organising (IRR) Palestinian civil society expresses solidarity with people of Norway Anders Breivik and the EDL (New Yorker) Craig Murray: Is Anders Breivik in this photograph? Oslo-based Palestinian human rights group condemns attacks Ali Abunimah: Norway suspect laid out detailed plans for violence against "traitors," Muslims (Electronic Intifada) Norway: The omnipotence of Al Qaeda and meaninglessness of “Terrorism” Women Asylum Seekers Together (WAST) March to UKBA Liverpool 29 July Sheikh Raed Salah Arrested - Urgent Action Alert Jayaben Desai - Grunwick strike leader - commemoration, Brent TUC Sun 17 Apr Save the Migrant Advice and Advocacy Service South Manchester Law Centre & Gtr Mcr Immigration Aid Unit protest Legal Services Commission 15 Nov Mcr Video & Reports: ILWU shut Bay Area ports: Justice for Oscar Grant! Justice for Oscar Grant: ILWU rally 23 Oct Oakland CA Bay Area ports shutdown: Justice for Oscar Grant! Jail for Killer Cops! Driven to Desperate Measures: Asylum and Migrant deaths Save South Manchester Law Centre San Francisco Labor Council backs ILWU Justice for Oscar Grant rally www.childm.org.uk Private sector control of UK Detention centres ILWU Local 10 longshoremen demand justice for Oscar Grant, murdered by police NCADC Annual General Meeting and Conference Saturday 4 September see also Debate: Open Borders Yarl’s Wood PCS celebrates BNP wipeout in Barking and Dagenham BNP collapse in Liverpool local election For more LabourNet anti-racist coverage click here UNITE Emergency union talks after workers occupy Bootle factory UNITE vs Union Busting: Thanet Earth week of action 27 June - 2 July Beanz production toast as workers announce further strikes at hypocrite Heinz (Unite) Leigh Bus Station rally to defend Seniors’ Bus Pass Candidates for Gen Sec post to speak at Leigh Hustings Unite’s reaction to cabin crew rejection of BA revised offer Cabin crew announce further BA strike dates BA strike updates 29 March BA Cabin crew strike: Day 3 update BA Cabin crew strike: Day 2 update Show solidarity with BA cabin crew BA: United we Stand (Unite) Transport secretary must investigate standards on strike-busting BA planes Unite on BA strike Unite: Don't blame Cabin Crews Teamsters support for Unite as BA strike looms High Court denies BA cabin crew right to strike - but Unite determined to reballot Kraft confirms closure of Cadbury plant Jerry Hicks election leaflet Sheffield TUC letter to Superdrug Superdrug strike, West Yorks for previous reports type UNITE in Search form COLOMBIA Demonstrate against Uribe - London Thurs 31 Oct Colombia: Death-squad “target” sticking to the union Human Rights in Colombia (Justice for Colombia) Stop Killer Coke: Coca-Cola AGM 25 April Atlanta GA Join London protests against Uribe: 21 and 23 May Colombia: 52 trade unionists murdered last year Colombia Urgent Action: Death threats to Human Rights and Indigenous Leaders Urgent Action: Death threats to Colombian Human Rights Defenders Colombian Oil Workers Strike in Casanare Colombian Oilworkers occupy BP processing plant, despite threats Picket BP London HQ 2 June Urgent Action: Police repression of BP Oilworkers picket - picket BP London 26 Feb Urgent Action: Death threats to foodworkers union as Coca-Cola stalls collective agreement Urgent Action: Grave concerns for lawyer Jorge Eliecer Molano and his family La Rose Nestlé union leader shot dead at home See also Coca Cola Colombia more coverage BURGER KING Burger King workers and their union sue Burger King New Zealand (Unite Union Aotearoa) COKE Colombia: Death-squad “target” sticking to the union Coca-Cola: Cesspool of Racial Discrimination Coke: Guatemalan unionists file suit over murder, rape, torture WELFARE GMB Endorses Workfare as the only route out of Unemployment GMB Gen Sec Paul Kenny openly supports further privatisation of public services ‘Benefit Thieves’ and Honorable New Labour MPs Poll findings prompt calls for Welfare Reform rethink PCS responds to Queen’s Speech on Welfare reform No to Workfare! (Chartist) Workfare in the UK Union anger over welfare reform plans PCS debate on future of welfare at Labour Conference Response to Green Paper on Welfare Reform Welfare Reform: the ‘unthinkable’ about to happen? Welfare Reform Bill lobby and rally 4 Dec ANTI-WAR Osama Bin Laden is Dead Israeli attacks on Gaza continue Israel kills 8 in Gaza (Ma'an News Agency) Stop the War on Libya Comment: No fly zone – what’s it all about? MUCH MORE ANTI-WAR - CLICK HERE EGYPT Egyptian workers strike and march against regime (Real News Network) Textile workers to go on strike in EgyptÂ’s largest factory Egyptian independent trade unionists declaration Call to Egypt: Open the Rafah Crossing! Strike wave across Egypt The Day for Egyptian Workers Democracy Now!: Millions against Mubarak US, UK firms help regime cut communications Army Â’not to use forceÂ’ in Egypt (Al Jazeera) Protesters call strike, ‘million man marchÂ’ (AFP) Palestinian police ban Egypt solidarity rally in Ramallah (Ma'an News) EgyptÂ’s uprising and its implications for Palestine (Electronic Intifada) The Torture career of Egypt's new vice-president (ICH) As Arabs rise up, US activists must persevere Egypt: 4 news reports 30.1.11 Egyptian Trade Union reports Egypt: Stop the War Public Meeting London 2 Feb previous reports Linen, Flax, Oil strikers take protest to Egyptian Cabinet Egyptian workers impose a new agenda (Challenge) Egyptian textile workers strike 55,000 in real-estate tax collectors strike more Egypt articles CLIMATE Frack-Off One Million Climate Jobs Climate Change: Brent TUC 10 Feb CHINA Developing a blueprint for collective bargaining in China (China Labour Bulletin) China: Call to restrict employment agency labour (China Labour Bulletin) A prescription for workplace democracy in China (China Labour Bulletin) China issues new regulations on labour dispute resolution Foxconn Workers in Central China China Labour Bulletin The strike that ignited China’s summer of worker protest (China Labour Bulletin) Solidarity with Gold Peak battery workers strike (LabourNet Germany) HONG KONG Thyssen Elevator Workers strike in Hong Kong AUTO See also: Car Wars Making the Grade: Fords Sewing Machinists strike 1984 Auto: The State of the Union (video) Asbestos: behind the GM cancer cluster Cancer cluster at GM Ontario plant French Ford workers speaking tour Contract Concessions and the Crisis in Auto Victory as Linamar convenor Rob Williams reinstated Linamar: Reinstate sacked convenor Rob Williams Reel News - Visteon Occupation London 13 May: Occupy! The Factory Occupation Movement in Venezuela & Britain Rally at Enfield to Support Visteon Occupation! WORKERS DUE TO BE EVICTED RALLY AT ENFIELD FACTORY Thursday 9th April at 11am sharp! more details (Socialist Appeal) Visteon plants occupied! What if Obama treated Wall St like Detroit? Autoworkers wages and Ruling Class lies Car Industry in Crisis: NSSN 14 Feb 09 B’ham The Auto Crisis: Management, Labor and the Struggle for the Future Toyota abuses workers at home and abroad (On the Line news) Magna: Ending the Framework for Concessions Dacia-Renault strike: translation (LabourNet Germany) Contract concessions, auto jobs and the CAWÂ’s right turn CAW debate: Bob White vs. Sam Gindin Crisis? What Crisis? The CAW and Panic Bargaining Has Canadian labour given up the fight? Ford: Another Oakville Worker Speaks Out Ford: Oakville Worker Speaks Out Ford: Oakville workers reject deal Firebrands: Liverpool 20 Mar for more please use Search form with keywords "auto" or "CAW" or "UAW" See also: Car Wars FBI RAIDS Trade unionists speak out against FBI attacks (In These Times) US protests spread after FBI raids anti-war activists Sign the statement: Labor activists condemn FBI repression CWU CWU website (includes Royal Mail) Royal Mail to close two London centres Keep the Post Public Royal Mail deal is junk (Roy Mayall, Guardian Comment is free) CWU - Royal Mail Interim Agreement Solidarity grows across London CWU reports and Manchester picket lines for strikes 29 - 31 Oct CWU solidarity group contacts CWU poster CWU background to the dispute CWU response to offer to sign *agreement* Picket lines Thurs 22 Oct CWU Offers ACAS as Strikes Confirmed How Royal Mail fiddle the figures (Roy Mayall, LRB) Postal strike in Japan Growing Parliamentary Support for Post Resolution Postal Dispute: House of Commons, Early Day Motion 2035 Royal Mail secret strategy document Royal Mail to hire 30,000 temps (BBC) Strikes Escalate Under Royal Mail Chaos Management Royal Mail: Day of Action 17 July CWU position on Postal Services Bill Keep the Post Office Public CWU hails Parliamentary fight against part-privatisation of Royal Mail for previous reports type CWU in Search form HAITI Haiti One Year On speaking tour The Poor Always Pay: Electoral Crisis in Haiti Haiti Support Group Appeal from Batay Ouvriye Batay Ouvriye statement 7 Feb Liverpool TUC solidarity with Haitian labour movement Liverpool TUC Haiti solidarity event 4 Feb NATIONAL SHOP STEWARDS NETWORK NSSN 26 June 2010 Conference agenda NSSN 27 June 2009 Conference agenda NSSN National Conference London 27 June 2009 NSSN: USDAW election, Visteon redundancies North East Shop Stewards Network: Durham 2 August Ragged Trousered Geordies - Newcastle 3 June National Shop Stewards Network: 19 April timetable / publicity National Shop Stewards Network: Newcastle 8 May National Shop Stewards Network: Newcastle 29 Mar National Shop Stewards Network: publicity for 19 Apr National Shop Stewards Network: regional conference Sat 19 Apr M’cr CLEANERS Phone London union-busters HQ in solidarity with migrant cleaners dispute in Sweden RIO TINTO LOCKOUT Locked out ILWU Miners vote to approve deal with Rio Tinto (AP) Letter to Boron Miners Solidarity Committee Debating the Boron Tentative Pact The containers loaded by scabs for Rio Tinto at the Boron lockout are now public knowledge and ILWU members are demanding action. While the Longshore Caucus was discussing support for locked out Local 30, scab containers were being loaded in LA! This must stop!. Find the containers here: Longshoremen - Stop Loading Scab Boron Cargo! For Solidarity Actions to Defend ILWU Miners! Boron: Local 30 Locked OUT - publish container numbers Japanese rail union solidarity with Boron miners May Day appeal for solidarity Defend Boron miners with solidarity actions! Video: ILWU 30 Locked Out Rio Tinto Miners Speak In San Fran Video: Rio Tinto AGM protest Video: Boron miner inside Rio Tinto AGM Video: Boron protest in Melbourne, Australia Rio Tinto Lockout at California Borates Mine - photostory (ILWU Local 30, ICEM) Union caravan to locked-out ILWU Boron miners (Alternet) CIVIL LIBERTIES Justice for North-West 10 Janas Khan appeal hearing Mcr 14 Aug Justice for North-West 10 - Update 26 July Cuban 5 - Miami 5 FUJITSU PCS reaches agreement with Fujitsu Fujitsu UNITE strike days January - February UNITE: Fujitsu strike suspended (November) UNITE, PCS Fujitsu strike 12, 13, 16 Nov PCS Fujitsu staff vote for strike action UNITE: Fujitsu campaign update, 14 October 2009 PCS: Fujitsu in strike ballot over jobs, pay and pensions Fury as Fujitsu seek to cut 10% of UK and Ireland workforce Fujitsu UNITE and PCS prepare for battle on pay claim for previous coverage use keyword "Fujitsu" in search form VESTAS WIND TURBINE PLANT Unionised wind turbine factory rises from Vestas ashes Hampshire Police operation removes blades Massive police operation removes blades - but not all Arrests of Vestas protestors occupying cranes and boats Vestas national day of action Thurs 17 Sept - Warrington demo Newport blockade stops Vestas moving blades 4 Sept Vestas - barges moving in 4 Sept High Tide as Vestas prepare to barge in for blades Pickets are vital to stop Vestas moving blades Vestas Day of Action 17 Sept - Manchester planning meeting 7 Sep Vestas Warrington Rugby demo reports Vestas demo 7pm Fri 21 Aug: Warrington Rugby Club Vestas HQ 7:30 am Tues 18 Aug: half yearly profits announcement Vestas Warrington protest report Vestas North-West solidarity action Vestas eviction scheduled 12 noon Friday 7 Aug Vestas eviction warrant - workers call for national protests Vestas Solidarity Action - Manchester Vestas workers besieged: Vestas occupation website Daring action delivers food to occupation Save Vestas Rally: 6.30 pm Tues 28th July London Vestas: Campaign Against Climate Change Vestas: message from Jerry Hicks Vestas workers begin occupation (SP) HONDURAS COUP ITF calls for action against Honduras shipping Honduras: a climate of repression and terror The Mass Resistance in Honduras: Its Own Voice NUJ Alternatives to Corporate Media Ownership: London 21 May Morning Star journalists victory proves union power Morning Star journalists set to strike Morning Star journalists ballot for strike The BBC and Gaza Save Our Star: Sheffield journalists campaign Press Freedom, TU rights, civil liberties in Pakistan - M’cr 16 Feb NHS Whistleblower is Standing up for Journalism - Manchester 5 Nov Stand up for journalism - Manchester 5 Nov Strike against compulsory redundancies at Scottish newspapers NUJ condemns kidnapping of Alan Johnston Journalism Matters NUJ, IWW dispute with MSP’s Tommy Sheridan, Rosemary Byrne NUJ Demonstration of Support for Aamir Ashraf Journalists to strike at South Yorkshire Newspapers Reinstate Rhetta Moran Now! Chicago: Republic sit-in solidarity page GREECE Update on the Greek Uprising (ZNet) Combative General Strike - counterattack of the establishment (KOE) ROAD HAULAGE US East Coast: Funds Needed to Support Fired IWW Drivers JUSTICE FOR JANITORS Toronto: Justice for Janitors CULTURE OF CAPITAL PFI and Democracy in Liverpool Liverpool TUC: the right to campaign in Liverpool Free speech in Liverpool challenges Police obstruction Stalling tactics win a victory for freedom of expression (Indymedia) SEX WORK Police raids in Soho endanger sex workers’ safety SHEFFIELD STEEL Sheffield steelworkers face sack CONVENTION OF THE LEFT Convention of the Left Anti Cuts Initiative Convention of the Left Manchester 20 - 24 Sep ZIMBABWE War in South Africa if Mugabe remains Death Spiral in Zimbabwe: Mediation, Violence and the GNU Flashback 1980: What future for Zimbabwe now? 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