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Royal Mail Goes for Broke

GREG Charles is branch secretary of South West London Postal Communication Workers’ Union . SI: With the attacks on pensions, Royal Mail management seems to be stepping up the fight. GC: Once new dates for action were announced, we knew this would happen — the intensity of our action in October has obviously alarmed management, and they are striking back. They have retaliated not just through the attack on our pensions, but with executive action to push us harder on a number of fronts — start times, night duties, workload and so on. What’s the CWU’s response? Is it adequate? Yes, the union is...

HAITI: Workers Protest Privatisation Layoffs

http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=38646 PORT-AU-PRINCE, Jul 24 (IPS) - Late last month, President René Préval announced that Haiti's public telephone company, Téléco, would be privatised. Meeting recently with the Haitian Chamber of Commerce and Senator Jean Hector Anacacis of Preval's Lespwa political party, the president finalised plans to sell off the aging enterprise. The move toward privatisation began abruptly, and according to Téléco, 2,800 employees have been terminated thus far. For decades foreign lenders and multinational corporations have pressured the Haitian state toward...

Haiti: Inquiétudes de la CTH face à la gestion du pays.

Port – au – Prince ; le 11 Juillet 2007 Communiqué de Presse Inquiétudes de la CTH face à la gestion du pays. Après la bataille démocratique qu’ont menée les travailleurs et le peuple haïtien avec leurs bulletins de vote aux élections du 7 février 2007 ; où ils ont accouché un gouvernement dans l’idée d’éradiquer le chômage, la misère et l’insécurité. Aujourd’hui , la CTH constate que les travailleurs et le peuple haïtien sont à bout de souffle ; au lieu que ce gouvernement prendrait des mesures concrètes pour mettre le pays sur les rails du développement en facilitant la création d’emplois...

Haiti: Labor Press Release on State Privatization

Port-Au-Prince; July 11, 2007 Press Release Concerns of the CTH, regarding the management of the Country. After the democratic battle, led by the Workers and the Haitian People through their voting ballots during the elections of February 7, 2007; where they gave birth to a government conceptually eradicating unemployment, poverty and insecurity. Today, the CTH notes that the Workers and the Haitian People are running out of breath; instead of this government taking concrete measures to put the country on the path of development, while facilitating the creation of employment, on the contrary...

The 1984-5 Miners' Strike, the Miners Who Scabbed, and the Fate of the Pet Pig

In Thomas Hardy’s novel Jude the Obscure, there is a strange, affecting scene, in which the butchering of a hand-raised pig is described. It is told with great sympathy and empathy from the pig’s point of view. (Parables for Socialists-5) Reared close to the family, as was common in nineteen century England, the pig is well-treated, mothered like a pet and fed on tit-bits — all the better to fatten it up so that it could at the right moment be turned into as much pork and bacon as possible. The pig is happy and contented, not knowing his place in the human scheme of things. Then one day the...

Fighting New Labour cuts in Lambeth

By Faryal Velmi Despite the biggest demonstration seen in Lambeth for a decade, savage cuts to Adult Social Services in Lambeth were voted through on Wednesday 28 February. The Labour run Lambeth Council voted to cut £736,000 from the ASS budget and the results will be felt harshly by local frail and isolated older and disabled people, adults with learning difficulties, people with mental ill-health and carers. Charges for vital services like homecare are to rise by a huge 132%– from £7.55 to £17.50 an hour in May 2007 and to £20 in April 2008. This will mean Lambeth’s charges are the highest...

Support Burberry workers!

By Heather Shaw February 14 is synonymous with slushy cards and expensive gifts but this year it has been declared as an International Day Against Burberry. The prestigious clothing and accessories company have come under fire because of their plan to move their South Wales factory to China, axing 310 jobs. The film awards people BAFTA severed ties with its high profile sponsor under the threat of a black-tie protest outside its annual reception event. Mervyn Burnett, GMB Officer dealing with Burberry in South Wales said; "GMB are pleased that BAFTA will not now be associated with Burberry...

Huge Demonstration in Cité Soleil

Demonstrators demand return of Aristide, the exit of MINUSTAH, rehabilitation of all civil employees illegally dismissed, and freedom for all political prisoners. Article and Photos by Wadner Pierre for Freehaiti.net A huge protest took place on Friday November 17, 2006, one day before the celebration of the 203rd anniversary of the Battle of “Vertieres,” the battle which freed Haiti from slavery on November 18, 1803. The inhabitants of the largest popular district of the capital (Cité Soleil) organized and demonstrated to show their dissatisfaction with regard to the foreign soldiers on their...

Tommy Sheridan in battle with his parliamentary workers

We publish for information and comment this article from the website of the Industrial Workers of the World - to visit their website, click here . Sheridan betrays his own workers In this article, Manny Neira reports and personally comments on the dispute between IWW and NUJ Scottish Parliamentary workers, and the MSPs who employed them. As Christmas approaches, eleven workers at the Scottish Parliament face broken contracts and unemployment in the new year, courtesy of self-proclaimed champions of the Scottish working class, Tommy Sheridan and Rosemary Byrne. They are both MSPs, Sheridan...

Fired Cap-Haitian civil service workers call on the government to give them their jobs back by August 14

Cap-Haïtien, August 2, 2006 (AHP); The government workers in Cap-Haitian who were terminated declared Wednesday that they are setting a deadline of August 14 for the Haitian authorities to return them to their previous positions and pay them all back wages due since the day they were dismissed. During a news conference, the workers said they were at the end of their rope and don't know where to turn to provide for the needs of their family members. "After the deadline, we will move to another stage in our struggle to obtain satisfaction for our demands," they threatened. Several hundred people...

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