Workplace notes
Gasworkers Strike As noted in earlier articles here on this website, 7,000 gas engineers employed by British Gas took industrial action for five
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industrial action
Royal Mail Deal
Royal Mail has offered postal workers a new deal. The posties’ union, the Communication Workers Union (CWU) postal executive voted unanimously to propose
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Good news for the BA Cargo workers
As workers were gearing up for another round of strikes against BA Cargo’s attempt to fire 4,000 workers in order to re-employ them
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Indian farmers create mass movement
Hundreds of thousands of farmers, many driving tractors or riding horses, converged on the Indian capital of New Delhi on Republic Day, January
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Workplace notes
Heathrow Workers at Heathrow Airport are preparing to strike over plans by bosses to fire and rehire all of the 4,000 workers, in
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Spain: farm workers on indefinite strike
Farmworkers in Almeria, southern Spain, have been striking for over a week now against wage fraud, illegal contracts and union busting by the
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British Gas Workers Strike for 8th time and plan to do so again
On Monday (25th January) 7,000 British Gas workers went out on strike for the eighth time. Their employer Centrica wants to have the
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Strikes, not more talks!
Article from No Safety, No Work campaign With the pandemic out of control it has never been more important for workers to take
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USA: teachers threaten ‘sickout’ to win demands
Arizona Teachers in Phoenix, Arizona, in the Chandler Unified School District, threatened a mass calling in sick in response to a decision by
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Spanish workers leap into action
December 2020 saw high levels of industrial action in Spain. In the Basque country, at Bilbao, dockers ended their 57 day strike at
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