Cleaners protests on 8th and 15th October
Facebook cleaners, members of CAIWU (the Cleaners and Allied Independent Workers’ Union) are balloting for strike action over the dismissal of one of
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industrial action
Workplace Notes: strike news
Manchester TramsManchester Metrolink workers are set to strike on Sunday 10th October, the same day as the Manchester Marathon, over management’s poor pay
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Weetabix Fire and Rehire
Engineers at two Weetabix factories went out on a two-day strike in late September. The workers at Kettering and Corby came out over
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CAIWU Facebook cleaners London protests 24/9 and 1/10
Upcoming actions from the Cleaners and Allied Independent Workers’ Union on Friday 24 September and Friday 1 October.
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Johnson regime spits in the faces of health workers
Wednesday, July 21st was the day that the Johnson government was meant to announce a 3% pay rise for health workers. Instead health
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School workers fight against Fire and Rehire
Valence Primary School in Dagenham, East London, is a community school run by the local Labour council. Management are now implementing fire and
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Fire and rehire at Douwe Egberts
As we have stated here on the ACG website, fire and rehire is a tactic increasingly being used against workers in Britain. This
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Manchester Bus Workers, Not a Famous Victory
We’ve previously carried reports on the ACG website on the long strike of Manchester bus workers employed by Go North West. This has
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Thurrock Refuse Workers: Victory!
We’ve recently reported on this website about the Thurrock bin workers. They have been on strike for six weeks over cuts to their
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Fire and rehire: a new tactic of the bosses
Bosses have seized the opportunity created by the COVID pandemic to opportunistically sack workers and rehire them with lower pay and worse conditions.
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