Post workers remain defiant – and have kept organising – following a court ruling banning their strike (Pic: @CWUnews/Twitter) Postal workers were waiting to find out the next steps in the battle to defend their jobs and working conditions, as Socialist Worker went to press on Tuesday. The workers’ CWU …
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The general election is just the beginning of this fight Will a Labour government fulfil Jeremy Corbyn’s promises to “pull down a corrupt system and build a fairer country?” Its manifesto, due to be released after Socialist Worker went to press, will be a good indication. Labour has already said …
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There were large protests against Narendra Modi in July (Pic: Guy Smallman) I was enraged to hear that the Labour Party had declared the question of Kashmir to be a “bilateral issue” between India and Pakistan in which Labour will not interfere. It has done this despite it being the site of …
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POSTAL WORKERS have vowed to fight a “desperate and sinister move” by Royal Mail to invalidate a strike ballot overwhelmingly supported by postal workers. Royal Mail bosses are seeking an injunction to block the planned strike, which could disrupt Christmas post as well as postal voting in the run-up to the …
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UK’s Royal Mail seeks legal action to prevent postal strike By Robert Stevens 9 November 2019 Royal Mail Group (RMG) has made an application to the High Court to prevent a strike by postal workers. The hearing is expected Tuesday, with Royal Mail claiming there were “potential irregularities” in …
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Royal Mail on Friday made a High Court bid to block a postal strike by workers due next month ahead of Christmas and around the time of Britain’s general election. Members of the Communication Workers Union recently voted to strike amid a dispute with management over pay and other employment …
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Link to this page: https://www.socialistparty.org.uk/issue/1063/29827 From The Socialist newspaper, 6 November 2019 Gary Clark, photo Mary Finch (Click to enlarge) Socialist Party Scotland member Gary Clark, who is the branch secretary of the Scotland Number Two CWU branch spoke at the main rally at Socialism 2019. Below are extracts from …
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Let’s transform the mood around the election (Pic: Neil Terry) This general election is an opportunity to kick out the Tories and break from a decade of austerity, scapegoating of Muslims and migrants, and inaction over climate change. If the Tories lose the election on 12 December, it will be a …
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Jeremy Corbyn speaking at the Labour Party conference Jeremy Corbyn has promised Labour’s election programme will be “the most radical and exciting plan for real change ever put before the British electorate”. If the policies that Labour Party members have voted for make it into the manifesto, then that might …
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Huge university strikes are set to sweep across Britain after workers voted for action in two ballots. UCU union members have voted in overwhelming numbers to stage walkouts to defend their working conditions, pay and pensions. Some 74 percent of workers across 147 universities voted to strike over pay and …
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