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latest (21 Dec): Alphonsus has won Refugee Status!
Alphonsus Uche Okafor-Mefor

Meltem & her mother being released from Yarls Wood!
Act Now: Meltem facing deportation Thurs 15 Nov

How to fight deportation: campaign leaflet launch 8 Dec Mcr

Pakistan’s Crisis: 26 Nov SOAS London

The Slave Ship: A Human History

Apollo and Beatrice are back in their communities

Beatrice must be released from detention immediately

British guards ‘assault and racially abuse’ deportees

Primary Health Care for Migrants Under Threat

Innocent must stay! And he shall!

Congo: Demo at Country Guidance Tribunal 25 Sep London

U-turn on Section 9?

8 demos against all removals to DR Congo Tues 28 Aug
Congo Deportations: Flores Sukula statement

URGENT: Asylum Link worker facing deportation Tuesday 28 Aug

Campsfield hunger strike: candlelit demo tonight (Thurs 1 Aug) 9pm

DR Congo anti-deportation demos London & M’cr 13 July
Potential legal challenges to DR Congo deportations
Dallas Court demo for DR Congo asylum “interviews”

Farhat Khan: Six and a half year campaign ends in victory

Four marches for migrants’ rights: 6-7 May

Gatwick demo against new removal centre Sat 21 Apr

Social Work and Refugees: Wolverhampton 19 May

Chowdhury family deportation: letters from Paul Mackney (UCU)
Chowdhury Family belong to Liverpool

Alphonsus released: victory for trade union action!

Alphonsus: trade union action stops flight
Alphonsus: still here, still fighting
URGENT: Stop deportation of union-backed conference speaker
Trade Union Conference Against Immigration Controls: Liverpool 31 March

Sukula Family invite you to Liverpool Conference
John McDonnell statement to Liverpool Conference

Alphonsus: Downing St. anti-deportation demo Tues 20 Mar London

Detainees Uprising at Campsfield

Save ESOL - Mass lobby of Parliament Weds 28 Feb
Save ESOL - London 15 Jan
Save English language classes for refugees, people seeking asylum
Trades Unions for Refugees: ESOL Campaign 9 Dec Manchester

Korea: Deaths of Migrant Workers condemned by Union

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Education

photoreport: UCU Lecturers strike Liverpool Community College

Canada: York University CUPE 3903 faces back-to-work legislation

www.teachers.org.uk

YouTube - NUTteachers' Channel

Canada: Labour Turmoil and the Fight for Public Education

Teachers and local government workers prepare action on pay

Campaign Teacher - Spring Issue

Support anti-militarist teachers in Japan

Academies - the trade union view

UCU members challenge Leeds Met U bullying

Victory over Sodexho at Haggerston School
PFI Sodexho strike Haggerston: no witch hunt!

NUT: Anti-Academy campaign Manchester 16 June

Rail / Tube

Bob Crow “Tube Action Rock Solid” (11.6.09)
Tube strike as management pull pull rug from under deal

Miners strike: Train crews did refuse to move coal

Tokyo police raid Doro-Chiba during KCTU Seoul rally

Tube cleaners: RMT to lobby TUC 10 Sep
London Tube / Rail Cleaners Need Your Support

RMT TUC resolution on Trade Union Councils participation

Stop ‘appalling’ intimidation of Tube cleaners (RMT)
Tube cleaners solidarity rally 8 July House of Commons

G8: Police raid Japanese railworkers union HQ

Greg Tucker

RMT website

ASLEF website

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National Shop Stewards Network

NSSN 27 June Conference agenda
NSSN National Conference London 27 June

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

CWU

CWU website (includes Royal Mail)

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

Our Health –
or Their Wealth?

Health SERVICES: Condition Critical
The international drive towards privatisation and
marketisation of health care – and how to resist it
Saturday June 20, 10am-3pm, Coventry
Download leaflet (PDF)

Dr George Tiller

Private contractors and Agenda for Change

Keep Our NHS Public - 6 June London

Royal Liverpool PFI: letter from Merseyside KONP
Profit From Illness? No Thanks!

PFI battle joined in letters to the Liverpool Daily Post
Unite congratulates Liverpool campaign against PFI
Royal Liverpool PFI: Judicial Review set for late May
Royal Liverpool PFI: High Court halts Trust plans
NHS Campaign High Court challenge to Royal Hospital PFI scheme
PFI: Court challenge to Royal Hospital (Liverpool Daily Post)
PFI: Letters to the Daily Post

BMA leader demands end to PFI
BMA campaign against creeping privatisation of NHS

Karen Reissmann Solidarity Campaign: statement and social 25 April

Oxford Community Hospital protest demands action

Public finances take the initiative in PFI funding (Public Finance)

NHS privatisation accelerates sharply

300 NHS jobs under threat in London (Nursing Times)

Karen Reissmann: Employment Tribunal settled

Consultation - Industrial Action on NHS Pay

Karen Reissmann Employment Tribunal 26 Jan
Nominate Karen Reissmann for UNISON NEC

Flu, norovirus and cold weather pile pressure on hospitals (LHE)

Broken committments on Dermatology in Liverpool

PCTs failing to consult on Darzi centres

UNISON steward Nurse Andy Goodall victimised for trade union campaigning

UNISON Health Exec report: pay, UNITE action...
UNITE vote for industrial action on pay
UNISON and Pay

Oxford Community Hospital threatened

Defend Yunus Bakhsh (front)
Defend Yunus Bakhsh (back)

What kind of health service do we want? KONP Leicester Sat 15 Nov

Karen Reissmann: legal defence fund launch 4 Nov
Unfair dismissal bid by mental health chief

Oxford: PCT staff threaten unofficial walkout

UNISON - ending a member led union?

UNISON NEC report

Unite strike ballot on NHS pay

PFI: response to the Royal Liverpool consultation

PFI and Democracy in Liverpool

National Blood Service blogspot

Don’t privatise Hinchingbrooke Hospital!

UNITE to ballot for industrial action on pay

UNISON Health Exec report (Karen Reissmann)

PFI: letters to the Daily Post
Liverpool Royal Chief Exec: “We had to fund new city hospital with private money” (Daily Post)
NHS campaigners want open debate on PFI
Liverpool City Council fails to scrutinise £477m hospital plan
Liverpool Royal PFI plan: stop it now!

PFI ‘exposes taxpayers to cash risk’ (UNISON)

UNISON Liverpool Acute: If it ain’t broke – don’t fix it!
Keep sterile services in-house

Public Services not Private Profit - Manchester 9 Oct

Karen Reissmann elected to UNISON National Executive

Karen Reissmann: Open letter to UNISON Regional Secretary

Karen Reissmann: Tribunal starts Mon 1st Sept
Karen Reissmann Employment Tribunal Sept 1st Mcr
Open letter to Ivan Lewis MP: M’cr Mental Health – listen to users and staff

Decontamination Victory in Devon!

RCN Update on NHS Pay

Health session at Convention of the Left 23 Sep Manchester

Abolish prescription charges in all the UK!

People power stops BUPA scheme (Wirral Globe)
BUPA planned to access patient details (Wirral Globe)

UNISON circular on NHS Pay (Word)
UNISON Health Exec calls for re-opening 3 year pay deal (update)
UNISON South East Regional Health Committee calls for re-opening Years 2 & 3
UNISON accepts pay offer - what next?

Manchester Mental Health boss quits ahead of report (Manchester Evening News)

photos: Tom Bimpson more

Defend the NHS Liverpool photoreport
Defend the NHS Liverpool demo report

Unite NHS Day of Protest Fri 18 July
Unite industrial action ballot, Day of Protest 18 July

Celebrate and Defend the NHS - No to Privatisation - Merseyside TUC and KONP demo 5 July

Pay fight isn’t over
UNITE members reject offer, vote to ballot on strike action

Nominate Karen Reissmann for UNISON NEC

Keep Our NHS Public AGM report

UNITE to ballot on pay with recommendation to reject

NHS disruption threat grows as health workers reject pay deal (Guardian)

Defend Yunus Bakhsh

Reject Pay Offer poster (PDF)
Pay Fact and Fiction (PDF)
NHS Pay Cut - the numbers

Polyclinics: 100 surgeries axed and more to follow (Pulse)

Lobby MPs re sacked nurse May 7th

Reject the offer – UNISON evidence on low pay

Reasons to reject – briefing document

UNITE Health Nat. Cttee rejects NHS pay offer

Information about the proposed pay offer
NHS Pay: inaccuracies in the union publicity
UNISON healthworkers to vote on pay offer
Inside UNISON Health Conference

Local Government NJC rejects pay offer
UNISON members: write to health group
NHS PAY - Circular for all UNISON Health Branches

Briefing on Royal Liverpool PFI plan (Word)
NW TUC vows to fight Royal Liverpool PFI
Health Risk: PFI (Word 800kb)
Lobby L’pool City Council against PFI hospital plan 26^th Mar
Don’t gamble with PFI in Liverpool NHS

Nursing Times: Multi-year nurse pay proposal splits unions
RCM rejects pay offer (Word)
Health Unions React to NHS Pay Offer
Society of Radiographers: Suspicions about 3-year pay deal
GMB on NHS pay deal
UNISON and RCN cut their own deal
Inflation: What does the Bank of England say?

NHS pay - the Offer

Mugabe and the PRB

Northern General Hospital strike

New Zealand: Spotless cleaners to extend strike

UNISON: Emergency motion on exclusion of candidates
Fight for the right to speak out against privatisation, cuts
Parliamentary lobby 7 May to call for Karen’s reinstatement

UNITE elects active opponents of cuts, privatisation

Campaigning works: Horton maternity cuts reversed!

SCARY! Local gov't, health employers cuts and privatisation offensive

Virgin protests escalate: Oxford
Virgin, Manchester report
Virgin Liverpool leaflet
Virgin Liverpool 6pm Tues 19 Feb
Virgin Peterborough buffet protest
Virgin protest Manchester 20 Feb
Virgin makes grab for NHS primary care

Go Whistle: Karen Reissmann and Graham Pink (The Guardian)

Karen Reissmann barred from union election
Virgin, Karen, Yunus, democracy and Pay

Derby hospital jobs row (Derby Telegraph)

March against health care restrictions: M’cr 5 May
Say NO to healthcare restrictions based on immigration status

Argentina: health clinic without bosses

Karen Reissmann: Health Worker Campaign Fund

Confuse and Conceal:
The NHS and Independent Treatment Centres

Nurses Rotating 12 hour shifts
Clerical rotating 12 hour shifts

Liverpool City Council condemns stupid Blood Service cuts
nbs-sos.blogspot.com/

Sodexho concedes parity with NHS, UNISON strike averted

Freedom of speech – an international Human Right
Karen Reissmann dispute update 15 Dec
Karen Reissmann: strike suspended, national campaign launched

Karen Reissmann Dec 11 solidarity protest
photos Richard Searle

Karen Reissmann loses appeal (Manchester Evening News)

New Zealand: Scrooge lurks in Wellington Resthomes

New Zealand: Eldercare national stoppage highlights low pay

Roundup of 5 Dec Silent Nightingale actions

Silent Nightingales Manchester protest:
photos Caroline Bedale and photos Richard Searle

photomontage: Richard Searle
Gagged nurses in Manchester demo for Karen Reissmann, 5 Dec

Union seeks justice for Karen (UNISON)

5^th Dec: Silent Nightingales? Don’t silence NHS staff!

Sacked nurse Karen Reissmann’s appeal begins 3 Dec

photo: Caroline Bedale

Wed 5th Dec:
national Solidarity Day for Karen Reissmann
Oxford leaflet for 5th Dec - adapt locally!

Photoreport 1: 24 Nov Karen Reissmann demo speeches
Photoreport 2: 24 Nov Karen Reissmann march and interviews

24 Nov Karen Reissmann demo photos:
Caroline Bedale, Mark (Oxford), Richard Searle

Video: Chief Exec returns from Dubai

“Reinstate Karen Reissmann! We have a right to fight NHS cuts, We have a right to speak out.”

Karen Reissmann sacking: Indefinite strike by Community Mental Health Teams and Crisis Resolution Teams started Thurs 8 Nov. Karen's appeal starts on 3rd December. UNISON nationally is supporting a national Solidarity Day on 5th December - lunchtime protests at hospitals and NHS buildings with health workers wearing gags, under the slogan: "Silent Nightingales - don't silence our NHS workers" - campaign for our right to speak out against NHS cuts and privatisation and to reinstate Karen. Please send messages of support and donations to: Derrick Goold Joint Branch Sec. or Caroline Bedale Joint Branch Sec., UNISON Manchester Community and Mental Health Branch, Union Office, Chorlton House, 70, Manchester Road, Manchester, M40 7LJ. Cheques payable to: "Manchester Community and Mental Health branch UNISON". For a speaker at your next union meeting please contact unison@zen.co.uk or 07972 120 451. Protests to the Trust's Chief Executive Sheila Foley

photo: Caroline Bedale

strikers outside Mental Health Trust HQ 10 Sept. 2007

Karen Reissmann: Overview of the case
Karen Reissmann: model motion for union branches

UNISON Health Service Group Exec Report

Letters from Health Sec. Alan Johnson MP and Sheila Foley

UCH and Oxford mobilise for Karen
Merseyside TUC events for Karen
Parliamentary Rally against Privatisation
John McDonnell MP condemns ‘disgraceful attack’

Letter from California Nurses Association - NNOC

Sheila in Dubai: Strike-row boss in desert storm (M.E.N.)
M’cr TUC Mental Health Strike Solidarity Cttee Mon 12 Nov
Karen Reissmann: to Southampton and beyond...
John McDonnell MP seeking to raise Karen’s case
M’cr community mental health indefinite strike starts 8 Nov
Karen Reissmann: solidarity meeting 14 Nov, demo 24 Nov
Karen Reissmann sacked
Karen Reissmann: Nurses union leader sacked
Karen Reissmann: thoughts of a friend
Nurse Karen Reissmann sacked

Karen Reissmann: 27 Sep Trust Board lobby photos

Please use Search form with keyword "Karen"... for more coverage.

Preston victory over NHS privatisation, but government presses on

Unite NHS committee slams employers on pay
Unite: Private companies must be made to reveal NHS profits

UNISON comments on Commissioning Framework
SiCKO: Don’t let it happen here!
Questions in the House as SiCKO corporations target NHS
Straight out of SiCKO, The Guardian
Commissioning Privatisation (2)
Commissioning Privatisation

Chichester rally against A&E closure: photos

Swansea Trades Council response to NHS bed cuts

Mass murder in Kent

Privatisation of sterile supplies (Liverpool Echo)

New updates on Save Our Blood Service blog
Save Our Blood Service - website update

NHS pay: UNISON “heads will roll on Exec for this”
NHS pay: outrage at Chief Exec £100,000 for 3 months
NHS pay: nurses consultative ballot Wolverhampton ICU

Unions and Labour Party Conference

Universal Health Care:
Nothing is good where better is possible

Salt in the Wound
UNISON: failure of leadership on NHS pay

photo: John Campbell

Northern General Hospital picket line 3 Sep 2007

Northern General Hospital strike 10-11 Sep, Collection Sheet
Northern General Hospital (Sheffield) strike photos
Northern General Hospital strike Day 3: Mon Sep 3^rd
Northern General Hospital strike Mon 20th Aug

Fremantle Trust threatens LabourStart for supporting UNISON dispute

Dermatology patient speaks out against privatisation
Liverpool Councillor demands PCT consult re Dermatology
Dermatology interview on BBC Radio Merseyside
Fears for NHS over skin service privatisation (Liverpool Daily Post feature)
NHS skin service threatened by privatisation plan

Sefton PCT drops private GP plan, for now (Liverpool Daily Post)

Save the NHS - Manchester demo photo-report

Manchester community mental health strike update (21 Feb)
UNISON Manchester Community & Mental Health calls NHS demo 3 March (+ Word download)

NHS Together in North-West

Preston KONP tackles CATS
BMA: problems with CATS in N-W England

Palestinians: The crisis in medical care

NHS Liverpool torchlit march Thurs 22 Feb (KONP)

Please use Search form with keywords "NHS" or "Agenda for Change" or "PFI" or "Logistics" or "NHS Pay"... for more coverage.

Civil Service

PCS website

PCS Gen Sec Mark Serwotka's Palestine Blog

PCS anger at Forensic Science Service job cuts plan

British Council outsourcing

Purnell's departure: end workfare now

PCS: Union piles pressure on politicians

PCS Conference Brighton 20-22 May

PCS praises Jobcentre staff as unemployment rises

Anger as Manchester Discrimination Helpline faces axe

Mandelson to outsource Vulnerable Workers Hotline

Anger at Marine Fisheries Agency relocation

Jobcentres Under Massive Pressure As Unemployment Rises

Tax Workers Rally and Lobby Parliament Over Cuts

EDS workers protest over job losses

Reopen the closed jobcentres!

Digby Jones comments naïve and insulting

Anger over Third Runway decision

Welfare Bill: wrong legislation at wrong time

PCS responds to rise in unemployment

Stop undermining public sector pensions

Nat. Museum of Science and Industry: petition

Welfare White Paper Regressive

PCS Responds to Alliance and Leicester Job Cuts

Anger over Revenue and Customs Office closures

PCS responds to Queen’s Speech on Welfare reform

PCS reaches agreement with government over pay

Anger over plans to privatise social fund loans

PCS responds to Work and Pensions announcement on Jobcentres

Work to rule begins to bite at Criminal Records Bureau
Work to rule in Criminal Records Bureau over 0.5% Cost of Living award

Civil servants vote for national strikes against 2% pay

Welfare Reform meeting Parliament 21 Oct

Union condemns EDS job losses
EDS: Union fears over 3,000 job losses

Government minimum wage shame

Conciliation staff strike

Public Sector Pay: Eve of TUC press conference

Massive vote to endorse job security agreement

Coastguards in Bank Holiday strike over pay

Conciliation staff in strike ballot over pay

Driving tests hit, coastguards set to strike

Week of public sector strikes

SHOUT tour Scotland to save local tax offices
Public services sell-off nothing to celebrate

Science Museum staff strike Friday 13th
Union anger over more revenue and customs office closures
Science museum staff in strike vote over pay
PCS: government using civil service as political football
PCS conference to debate government pay limit
Union opposes loss of London health & safety jobs

100,000 civil servants to strike 24 April
Coastguards pay strikes 11 and 24 April
PCS reaches agreement to protect civil service jobs
Driving Tests hit by pay strikes
Strong support for Work and Pensions strike

Budget a missed opportunity
Massive support for Coastguards strike
DVLA strikers are victims of huge pay inequality
Driving tests will be hit by pay strike

PCS condemns yet more swingeing cuts in Work and Pensions
PCS Transport staff pay strike 29 Feb
ACAS staff in strike ballot over pay
Science museum staff vote to strike
Coastguards begin pay strike ballot
Valuation staff pay strike ballot

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Hazards

Hazards website

Ontario: Key Findings of a New Report on Injured Workers
Ontario: Injured Workers rally 1st June St. Catharine's

While you were sleeping...

WMD Portsmouth

Health and Safety in South Yorkshire Construction Sector

International Workers Memorial Day 28 April 2009

photo: Mick Holder

Workers Memorial Day London 28 April 2008

Remember the Dead, Fight for the Living

Workers Memorial Day - London 28 April
Workers Memorial Day - Sheffield 28 April

Union opposes loss of London health & safety jobs

RSI Action Day 29 Feb Manchester

Ontario’s injured workers make modest gains

Corporate Killing: Steven Burke 2young2die Vigil Crown Court Minshull St. Mcr 6 Nov

Back pain at the till: USDAW Checkout Checklist

Families Against Corporate Killers

Job cuts threaten health and safety inspections

TUC warns employers to keep workplaces cool

Ontario Injured Workers Day 1 June

EU Directive on Services and Country of Origin, model resolution

Safety at Work: a retreat from law? (Labour Research)

Scottish Hazards Condemn Corporate Homicide Spin

The Sago mine disaster
Dave Feickert: West Virginia mine disaster

Safety violations have piled up at coal mine (Washington Post)
Sago mine has history of roof falls (Charleston Gazette)

Dave Feickert: China’s Energy, Coal and Mine Safety

Israel – Palestine

Israel kidnaps Free Gaza boat "Spirit of Humanity"

Leon Rosselson: Leonard Cohen and Beyond

PCS Gen Sec Mark Serwotka's Palestine Blog

US West Coast dockers congratulate Durban dockers boycott

UNISON Open Letter for pension fund divestment

Inside Gaza: notes from the Viva Palestina convoy

France: coalition rejects using Sete port for Israeli company Agrexco

Samar and Jawad are finally free!

Victory: Veolia ditches Jerusalem Light Rail project: focus now on Alstom

UCU supports Palestinian call for boycott, divestment and sanctions despite legal threats

PCS backs consumer boycott, end arms sales and EU trade agreement with Israel - PGFTU address conference

FBU to campaign for boycott, divestment and sanctions as with apartheid South Africa

Interview: Manawel Abdel-Al, PGFTU

Arab railway workers in Israel score first victory

Isolate Israeli Apartheid: Manchester 19 May

Remember Gaza - Free Palestine demo London 16 May

Lieberman, the EU Israeli Association Agreement, Settlements
Lieberman in London: protest 10:30am - 12noon Foreign Office, Whitehall

Scottish TUC commits decisively for Boycott, Divestment & Sanctions

End of Trade Union Friends of Israel?

North-West trade union Palestine solidarity conference: morning session transcript
North-West trade union Palestine solidarity conference: final plenary transcript
Blog report: Morning session
Blog report: Afternoon session

Scottish TUC 2009 delegation report (PDF)

Defend Jeremy Bowen from Zionist lobby (Media Workers Against the War)

Laborer’s Voice international appeal for fired rail guards (Word)
“Hebrew Labour” lives on as Israel Railways fires Arab guards

North-West trade union Palestine Solidarity conference speakers and agenda
North-West TUC conference policy on Palestine
North-West trade union conference:
Solidarity with Palestine — Liverpool 18 Apr

Gaza: UN press conference
European campaign to end the siege on Gaza

Goodbye Moto, Goodbye Apartheid!
Isolate apartheid Israel - lessons from South Africa

Eyewitness in Gaza: Public meeting with Sameh Habeeb - Liverpool 31 Mar

Ronnie Kasrils: BDS can defeat Israel (MMN)
Sandwell MBC drops Veolia’s bid for waste contract

Seamas Milne: Will Israel be brought to book? (Guardian)

Israeli soldiers in Gaza ordered to shoot medical rescue teams (Ha’aretz)
Israeli army deliberately killed Palestinian civilians in Gaza (Ha’aretz)
Israel’s War Crimes: Richard Falk (Le Monde Diplomatique)
Ni'lin: IDF shoot US peace activist - update and video
West Bank village Ni'lin pays tribute to Jewish victims of the holocaust
Anniversary of the murder of Rachel Corrie...

Histadrut: Israel’s racist “trade union” (Electronic Intifada)
Histadrut to ask ITF for help on SA boycott
Histadrut defends Israeli war crimes
Separate and Unequal - The History of Arab Labour in pre-1948 Palestine and Israel

Gaza, we will be back
Gaza and Viva Palestina... one family
Convoy leaves Gaza: mission accomplished...for now
Viva Palestina convoy enters Gaza after Egyptian Police attack
Viva Palestina convoy at the Rafah border crossing

Israeli elections: a significant step closer to fascism

Psychological effect of Gaza war on children

US trade unionists salute South African, Australian dockers' Israel boycott

COSATU humbled by international support for boycott action
Significance of the Durban dockers’ refusal to offload Israeli cargo

Hampshire College Divestment - response to spin
Manchester Metropolitan University occupied for Gaza
Occupation website

PC Pratt and the Gaza Convoy arrests

Irish Congress of Trades Unions to launch boycott

Israeli women expose companies complicit in occupation (Electronic Intifada)
Direct action against companies arming and trading with Israel (Corporate Watch)

Feminists blockade Agrexco: We don't want your bloody Valentine

The Congress of South African Trades Unions (COSATU) is celebrating victory as the Johanna Russ (Zim Lines) is now steaming northeast from Durban, having arrived and left early. Management appear to have deployed scabs, but the firm stand by COSATU and its affiliated transport union SATAWU is a big step forward. Details are in the COSATU press release below. SATAWU is affiliated to the International Transport Workers' Federation. The Histadrut (Israeli trade union federation) intends to call on the ITF to end the boycott. Other ITF affiliates have strong policies on Palestine.

COSATU: Victory for worker solidarity
COSATU Gen Sec calls on workers worldwide to follow Durban dockers lead

COSATU calls for intensified action against Israel
COSATU, PSC: Free Palestine! Isolate Apartheid Israel!
Palestinian BDS National Committee salutes South African dockworkers
Oakland: Solidarity with South African Dock Action Against Israeli Ship
Maritime Union of Australia: South African wharfies to ban Israeli ship
Doro-Chiba rail union (Japan): Let’s fight together with Cosatu/Satawu’s direct action!
Liverpool dockworkers / Initiative Factory: solidarity with Durban dockworkers
Liverpool to Durban: you will set the world alight
Cambridge City Unison: international trade union action at its best
S. African dock workers won't unload Israeli goods (AP / NYT)
Israeli media report (YNet news)

Histadrut to ask ITF for help on SA boycott

Western Australia: Portworkers endorse boycott of Israel

Caterpillar: Church of England has divested £2.2m

Carmel-Agrexco warehouse blockaded
Don't flirt with Israeli apartheid: Agrexco HQ Sat 7 Feb
Protest Israeli Ambassador Kensington Town Hall Mon 9 Feb

NUJ, BECTU protest over BBC and Sky’s Gaza appeal ban
BBC staff in revolt over Gaza appeal ban
Why has the BBC behaved in such a bizarre way?
Eight reasons why the BBC is wrong on Gaza
postponed due to snow: Gaza - failed by the media: 2 Feb London but will be reconvened

Union of Health Work Committees: Thank You

COSATU Gen. Sec. Z. Vavi: Sanction and Boycott apartheid Israel!

Debate at San Francisco Labor Council: What price Unity?
San Francisco Labor Council demands Gaza border opening now

WFTU statement on Palestine

Veolia crumbling under pressure

Arms to Israel: activists enter EDO in Brighton

Histadrut defends Israeli war crimes

New Zealand Council of Trade Unions endorses Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions
Italy’s largest union: Prosecute Israeli war crimes, suspend EU Assoc. Agreement
US: United Electrical Workers Call for End to Bloodshed in Gaza
Iraq: unions march against Israeli invasion of Gaza

91 Israeli Citizens: “Boycott Israeli Goods and Institutions!” (The Guardian)
Israel: A police state celebrates (IPS, Electronic Intifada)
Israeli TV broadcasts a father's heartbreak

Israel Bombs University Teachers Assoc. (Gaza) - Boycott now!

Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions: A call from Gaza
Trade Union Solidarity with Palestine: Edinburgh 17 Jan 09
Liverpool: Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Now!

Israeli citizens call for Sanctions against Israel

Europe postpones upgrade of Israel trade agreement (Guardian)

PFLP calls on Greek people to stop US arms to Israel
Reuters: US seeks arms shipment from Greece to Israel

New Zealand: union calls members to protest Israeli aggression
Norway: historic mobilisation and political strike against Gaza massacres

Free Gaza Movement stopped in international waters by Israeli navy

Gaza is sinking in a river of blood (Electronic Intifada)

Mass anti-war demo Tel-Aviv - Jaffa 17 Jan

Video: Bay Area trade unionists speak out on Gaza

Fact Sheet: How Israel torpedoed the ceasefire (Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign)

Palestine Solidarity Campaign bulletin 11 Jan

Quebec unions / civil society mass solidarity demo

PGFTU: We are all Gazans

UCU: Lecturers Union condemns Israeli attack
UCU Left supports Palestinians

National demonstration London Sat 10 Jan Hyde Park 12:30 march to Israeli Embassy
Stop the massacre: Israel out of Gaza

Thirteenth Day of Continuous IOF Attacks Across the Gaza Strip

Red Cross demands urgent access to wounded as Israeli army fails to assist wounded Palestinians

Israeli consulate in Toronto occupied

UNISON: End Gaza violence

How long before Israeli forces ask why they were ordered to attack the school... and then refuse to obey?

Standing shocked in Gaza, surrounded by massacres

42 dead as Israel massacres civilians
and children at north Gaza UN school

Union of Health Work Committees: Is there a light at the end of the tunnel?

Day 10 in Gaza: an escalating massacre

Israeli tank bombards Al Awda hospital ambulance - healthworker killed, vehicle destroyed

Sao Paulo demo unites opposition to Israeli attack

Day 9 in Gaza: outcomes of the land invasion

Ilan Pappe: Israel’s righteous fury and its victims in Gaza (Electronic Intifada)

The Invasion of Gaza: part of a broader Israeli agenda (Global Research)

Liverpool demo photoreport

London Sat 3 Jan 12:30 Embankment... and elsewhere
Massacre in Gaza - Press Conference 2 Jan with Annie Lennox
Liverpool, Manchester demos
San Francisco demo 2 Jan
South Africa demos 2 - 5 Jan

Happy Holocaust Gaza: is history repeating itself?
Who ended the 6 month ceasefire in Israel/Palestine?
Day 7 of Israeli war on Gaza

Is the UN complicit in Gaza massacre?

Boycott committee: “Stop the massacre in Gaza - boycott Israel now!”
British telecom firm severs ties with Israeli counterparts over Gaza
Turkish mass rallies demand Israeli boycott
Palestinian university union federation calls for boycott as Israel bombs Gaza university
Oxford UNISON health branch condemns Israeli aggression, calls for arms embargo
Workers Advice Centre: for international trade union pressure to stop Israel’s war in Gaza
South African Government summons Israeli Ambassador
South Africa: Palestine protests set for 3 Jan

Israeli electioneering with bombs (Electronic Intifada)

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Welfare

‘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

We won’t pay
for their crisis

May Day in Sacramento

From global finance to nationalisation of the banks

The Decline and Fall of the Unemployed Workers Centres movement

Statutory Redundancy (Amendment) Bill

Challenging the downturn

The Economic Crisis, Public Sector Pay and Industrial Relations - Manchester 22 Jan

Canada: BC Labour Convention Confronts Economic Crisis

PCS reaches agreement with government over pay

PCS responds to pre-budget report
Billions in tax going uncollected, union warns

Civil service pay strike suspended

Balls to the Living Wage?

PCS lodges 500 Age Discrimination Claims over Pay

No pay day for driving licence staff

Labour delivers 22% pay rise for school cleaners... in New Zealand

PCS call on government to avoid damaging strike action
Civil servants vote for national industrial action against 2% pay

Bank bailout should not be at the expense of public services, union leader warns

Council salaries hit by bank collapses (The Independent)

Civil servants vote for national industrial action against 2% pay
Work to rule in Criminal Records Bureau over 0.5% Cost of Living award

Public Sector Alliance: Liverpool 9 Oct

Public Services Not Private Profit: Manchester 9 Oct

Manchester Rally against Low Pay:
Peace Gardens 12 noon 17 July

Liverpool City Council braced for shutdown

photos: Tom Bimpson

photoreport:
Public Sector workers unite to fight – Liverpool 24 April

Civil servants pay strike causes widespread disruption
Coastguards start public sector pay strikes (PCS)

Birmingham Council workers fight for fair pay (UNISON)

NUT strike South Yorkshire rally
NUT strike North-West events

TUC: Speak up lobby of MP's 9 June

UNITE

Waterford Crystal occupation (In Defence of Marxism)

IMI Scott: Reinstate sacked shop steward & workers!

Unite Amicus election for General Secretary

Initial cleaners Manchester Airport to strike from 17 July

Unite NHS Day of Protest Fri 18 July
Unite industrial action ballot, Day of Protest 18 July

Eddie Roberts wins 14 year battle against witchunt

UNITE injunction against sacked Belfast airport workers

Shelter: UNITE(T&GWU) bulletins and appeal
Defend Shelter Staff! Defend Shelter!

UNITE letter to ILWU: No Peace No Work stoppage

Keep Rolls Royce pride on Merseyside

UNITE and Fujitsu settle dispute

Salford refuse workers victory over casualisation
Salford faces further Refuse and Sweeping strike
Salford Council Workers strike
Salford binmen to strike

NUJ

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)

Local Government

Alan Walter - Defend Council Housing

Wirral Against the Cuts - news and leaflet
Save Wirral Services

Privatisation of Sheffield’s Roads - a personal view

Local government unions accept below inflation offer (Gagged)

Rally for Michael Gavan, Karen Reissmann, Fremantle strikers

Glasgow Daycare strike update

Newham Council suspends UNISON Chair Michael Gavan
Newham UNISON rally with Ken Loach, Stratford 20 Sep

Bolton UNISON possible strike over ‘sleep in payments’

Who cares? Privatisation of home carers in Manchester

Liverpool City Council redundancies and severance scheme

Defend Council Housing: new newspaper

Coventry UNISON meets with Gen. Sec. Dave Prentis

Coventry UNISON consultative ballot on library staff reorganisation

Coventry UNISON single status strike from 7 Feb

Southampton Care Workers strike 3,4 and 5 Feb

Defend Council Housing in South Manchester

Single Status Pay Cuts: unions’ silence is deafening
Single Status Hell

Defend Council Housing: Lobby Parliament 8 Feb

Coventry strike against Single Status pay cut

Sefton Unison stewards suspended for housing transfer shop protest

Seething at Barking & Dagenham
Barking & Dagenham Council Workers: Defend the Right of Appeal

Firefighters

Matt Wrack: The Fire Service under ‘new’ Labour

The Fire Service under ‘new’ Labour: Hatfield 20 Nov

South Yorkshire resists imposed shift changes

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Dockers and Portworkers

Lessons of the 1934 General Strike: San Francisco 3 July

Video: Solidarity has no borders - the journey of the Neptune Jade

Iraqi Portworkers call International Labour Conference in Erbil

ILWU asserts right to all dock work at Port of Oakland

Asbestos: Liverpool dockers test case victory

Jack Heyman, ILWU: Defend our union from attacks, outside and inside!

Sacramento dockers racial profiling: charges dropped

Defend ILWU Local 10 members as Sacramento trial begins

ILWU dockers back striking crew (ITF)

Vote No: 4 reasons to send the ILWU contract back

Vote “No” on the Tentative Contract!

Oakland longshoreman killed

photo: Ana Cosel

Europe’s Eastern gateway blocked: Strike in the docks of Constanta (LabourNet Germany)

Shipping companies threaten
West Coast dockers over May 1st anti-war strike
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Escalating strike in French ports - CGT statement & info
Solidarité from US West Coast

Zim arms ship not in ‘Namibia’

Employers threat to ILWU anti-war stoppage (Word)

Death at Long Beach

ILWU 1st May - Call to Action

US West Coast dockers:
1^st May workers action to stop the war
1 de Mayo: Acción obrera para terminar con la guerra
Le 1^er Mai: Action ouvrière pour mettre fin à la guerre
1. Mai Arbeiter-Aktionen zum Stopp des Krieges
اول ايار / مايو العمال يدعون للعمل لوقف الحرب (Word)
戦争阻止労働者行動に向けて (Word)
1 мая - Действия рабочих для прекращения войны (Word)

ILWU letter to AFL-CIO on 1st May anti-war stoppage

Occupied Triton 11 crew statement, solidarity messages

Madrid international meeting to support Coordinadora

On the Global Waterfront
Charleston 5 book, talk, video
New book: The fight to free the Charleston 5

Feds stop ILWU Local 10 election

Dockers to protest Sacramento port arrests in Oct. 4 courthouse rally
All Hands on Deck for Sacramento Court Protest 4 Oct
All out to defend Sacramento dockers

Sacramento cops assault dockers returning to work

On the Global Waterfront: The fight to free the Charleston 5

Transport Workers Solidarity Committee

On the line against the war in the Port of Oakland

ILWU members respond to pro-Israel Dispatcher article

Logistics explained

Alcatraz: Valentine’s Day on the San Francisco Embarcadero

Transport Workers Identification Credential (TWIC) implementation

San Francisco Anti-War march links to Alcatraz ferry fight

Alcatraz Cruises: a Union Busting Experience

Alcatraz mass demo 14 Jan - MLK birthday

Port shutdown, mass picket boost Hornblower fightback

San Francisco Captain writes on Hornblower
Hornblower mass picket 9 Dec
Hornblower: On Workers, the challenge to labor

Polish and Filipino crew strike Australian wheat shipment

Hornblower rally Sun. 22 Oct

photo: Todd Sanchioni
Maritime workers picket at Hornblower 8 Oct 06
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Video: SF Maritime Workers Battle Bush-Hornblower Union Busting

Between The Rock and a Hard Place

Solidarity with IBU/ILWU protest
Fight union busting at Alcatraz ferry

Transport Workers International Solidarity conference San Fran 16 Nov.

MUA condemns Israeli invasion of Lebanon (Aug 2006)

Bill Morris snubbed at ITF conference

Simon Jones Was Someone!: Liverpool 8 & 10 May

Peru: strikes and threat of “self-handling”

Israel: wildcat strike shuts Ashdod

Dubai Ports World Uproar

Imprisoned dockers: Joint Union Belgian Ports appeal
Support the imprisoned dockers and their families
Imprisoned dockers: Liverpool letter to T&GWU

photo: Reuters

European dockers: We did it - again!
European Parliament rejects the Directive
GMB comment on European Parliament vote

European dockers return to work

European dockers: Violent confrontations in Strasbourg (Liberation)
IDC: Dockers demonstrate against the European Directive

Greek dockers appeal for solidarity
Wharfies of the World to rally against EU Ports Directive
EU Ports: That was 2 hours, now it’s 2 days
EU Ports Directive and Mersey Docks

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Docks Update

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Road Haulage

US East Coast: Funds Needed to Support Fired IWW Drivers

Justice for Janitors

Toronto: Justice for Janitors

Anti-War

Iraq unions launch new federation at first international labour conference

The war against Iraqi women - speaking tour

National demonstration London Sat 10 Jan Hyde Park 12:30 march to Israeli Embassy
Stop the massacre: Israel out of Gaza

Iraqi Portworkers call International Labour Conference in Erbil

Iraq and Afghanistan war resisters’ solidarity with Israeli ‘shministim’

Shoes demo for Iraqi journalist: Sat 20 Dec 1pm Mcr BBC

Tokyo 2 Nov 2008

The Prospects for Iraq under Obama: 13 Nov London

Antiwar Digest (NYCLAW)

Video: Cindy Sheehan on War & the Economy

Bipartisan Empire: anti-war digest (NYCLAW)

Georgia, Nato & the spread of war: London 14 Aug

Huge stakes behind war in Caucusus

Shipping companies threaten
West Coast dockers over May 1st anti-war strike

Video: ILWU May Day San Francisco (YouTube)
Video: May Day Seattle ILWU March and Action (YouTube)

Poem: Mayday 2008 (Jack Hirschman)

West Coast ports shut on May Day (Workers World)
West Coast ports shut down for May Day (Socialist Worker)

Radio: Defying Employers to Shut Down West Coast Ports (Democracy Now!)
KPFA radio interview on ILWU anti-war stoppage

Transport Workers Solidarity Committee website

photos: LA Times (left), Kristi Hagen (centre and right) click photo to enlarge

LA San Pedro (left), Seattle (centre and right)
ILWU anti-war shutdown closes 29 US West Coast ports on 1 May 2008

Union’s war protest shuts West Coast ports (NY Times)
Dockworkers walk off job at ports up and down coast to protest war (San Francisco Chronicle)
Thousands of dock workers stay home, West Coast ports shut down (LA Times)

1 May: Members of the General Union of Port Workers in Iraq plan to shutdown the ports of Umm Qasr and Khor Alzubair for one hour on May Day in solidarity with the shutdown of all West Coast ports by members of ILWU in opposition to the occupation of Iraq.

Iraqi trade unions May Day message to the world

Iraqi portworkers to ILWU: Long Live International Solidarity!

Swedish dockworkers to ILWU: we fully support your action

UE Officers express Solidarity with ILWU antiwar stoppage

YouTube: OEA Press Conference on ILWU May Day Action Against The Wars

photo: Steve Zeltzer

Oakland theater 25 April 2008

Clash over longshore union anti-war stoppage

Google restores transportworkers website after 1 day's protest!
Defend civil liberties – Google shuts transportworkers website

May Day - San Francisco Bay Area
May Day in Seattle - Puget Sound labor actions for peace, immigrant rights
Anti-war May Day in Portland

Durban dockers win recognition for Zimbabwe arms blockade
Zim arms ship ‘not in Namibia’
Ship with arms for Zimbabwe flees Durban after court ruling (SAPA)

Vermont AFL-CIO supports ILWU strike against war

New York City Labor Against the War supports ILWU stoppage

Stop PMA’s phony legal threat! (PDF)
Employers threat to ILWU anti-war stoppage (Word)
ILWU 1st May leaflets - updated
Employers reject ILWU May 1^st anti-war stoppage plan

Liverpool TUC message to ILWU
Canadian Autoworkers Local 199 message to ILWU
IWW message re 1 May action

Longshoremen to close ports on West Coast to protest war (San Francisco Chronicle)

NY faculty, Greensboro letter carriers support 1 May stoppage
Oakland Education Association letter of support (PDF)

ILWU 1st May - Call to Action

Assault on Basra threatens Iraqi trade unionists
Iraqi troops may move against Basra dockers

International Dockworkers Council: ILWU call for action against Iraq war

Million Worker March: appeal re 1^st May stoppage

NY Postal workers May Day 2 minute stoppages
San Francisco Letter Carriers on May Day and the war
San Francisco Labor Council backs May Day stoppage

UNITE letter to ILWU: No Peace No Work stoppage
Sacked Liverpool dockers on No Peace - No Work stoppage
Jeremy Corbyn, John McDonnell letter to ILWU Pres. Robert McEllrath
Japan: Doro-Chiba (rail union) letter to ILWU (PDF)
ILWU members discuss May 1^st anti-war stoppage
Solidarity with ILWU May 1^st Coast Shutdown
Letters to ILWU
ILWU anti-war stoppage (SF Weekly)

ILWU letter to AFL-CIO on 1st May anti-war stoppage

Hands off Iraqi oil: picket BP station L'pool Sat 23 Feb
Iraq oilworkers Pres. Hassan Jumaa L'pool 4 Mar
Iraqi oilworker at Manchester peace rally 1 Mar

Hands off Iraqi Oil: Liverpool 18 Jan

Arms, ethics, and legal minefields

Arms trade lobby Merseyside Pensions Mon 26 Nov

Japan: workers rally against war, privatisation and deregulation

The World Against War: 1 Dec London

Bush and Olmert intent on war with Iran

10 days that shook Olympia (ZNet)
Port Militarisation Resistance update 14 Nov
Port Militarisation Resistance denounces police brutality

Port Militarisation Resistance - Peppersprayed in Olympia
Port of Olympia Anti-War Blockades, video link

More Merseyside local authorities vote to disinvest from arms
Liverpool votes to ditch arms trade shares (CAAT)
Liverpool City Council arms trade disinvestment decision

Journalists to debate war coverage: London 17 Nov

Hands Off the People of Iran: meetings
Iran controversy at Stop the War AGM

Peace activist faces prison for remembering war dead

You Tube video for Oct 27 Bring Troops Home demo
ILWU Local 10 will speak at Oct 27 US anti-war demo
Excluded from the platform at Oct 27 US anti-war demo
Join the Die-in at San Francisco demo

San Francisco anti-war labor conference: press report
ILWU anti-war labor conference: letter

Liverpool anti-war trade union conference

Call for Labor Conference to Stop the War
All out to defend Sacramento dockers
On the line against the war in the Port of Oakland

London anti-war demo: ban will not stop us on 8 Oct
London anti-war demo will defy government ban
London anti-war demo faces ban

Liberty should weep

Sacramento arrests: ILWU cries foul
Dockers to protest Sacramento port arrests in Oct. 4 courthouse rally
All Hands on Deck for Sacramento Court Protest 4 Oct

Labour conference to stop the war: website
San Fran Labor Council backs anti-war conference
UNANIMOUS support at San Francisco Labor Council
US soldiers with picket signs

Court appearance for anti-war protestors
Anti-war sit-down at Labour Conference planned

Iraqi Oil Workers Union Condemns US forces killing of engineer

Anti-war Japanese teachers win support in San Francisco

LA Federation of Labor supports anti-war actions

Bradford’s 3000 Strong Women’s Anti-War March

Iraqi Minister enforces Saddam law on unions

Iraq Oilworkers leader in London, meeting 18 July

Manchester TUC letter to Prime Minister Nouri Al Maliki
Iraqi army surrounds oilworkers strike
Iraq oilworkers strike pipeline

Iraq trade unionists US tour

Port of Oakland dockers honour anti-war picket
Port of Oakland anti-war mass picket 19 May

Tell Shell – Hands Off Iraqi Oil!
San Fran demo Mon 14 May against Oil (theft) law
Iraq Oil Workers to strike against privatisation law
Iraq unions U.S. tour needs support
Hands Off Iraq Oil: London 24 Mar
Campaign against Iraqi oil ripoff targets Shell, BP

Anti-war protest at Port of Oakland - longshore discussion

Iraqi teachers visit NASUWT

Tacoma anti-war protest update
Port of Tacoma: police attack mass protest at Stryker shipment

In defence of Iraq’s Palestinians

Trident Replacement: Sheffield TUC letter to MPs

San Francisco Anti-War march links to Alcatraz ferry fight

Against Imperialst War, for Iran Workers

or is it 655,000?
Johns Hopkins study published in The Lancet

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Colombia

Army shoots dead indigenous leader’s husband

Urgent action: raid on home, Minga, Cane Cutters

Emergency picket Colombian Embassy London 23 Oct

Colombian unions national strike 23 October

URGENT ACTIONS: Cane Cutters Strike, Dirty War

UK military aid to Colombia: new report (Justice for Colombia)

URGENT ACTION: feminist Olga Marina Vergara and Family assassinated

URGENT ACTION: agricultural workers in grave danger

URGENT ACTION: police troops attack sugar workers
18,000 striking sugarcane cutters face repression

Emergency Action: Defend Bolivia and Venezuela

URGENT ACTION: Upsurge in paramilitary assassinations in Arauca

DOUBLE EMERGENCY: Death Threat to Trade Unionists

URGENT ACTION: South Bolivar Artisan Miners

URGENT ACTION: 4 trade unionists assassinated

Day of Action 6 March London and Bristol

URGENT ACTION: Disappearance of Casanare peasant leader

Labour agreement at Ross International companies
Recognition strike continues at Ross International

Imminent death threat to Coca-Cola workers
picket Coca-Cola UK HQ London 20 Dec

Recognition strike looms at Ross International

Justice for Colombia e-bulletin 19 Nov

Colombia and Venezuela: Conference Liverpool 22-23 Nov

URGENT ACTION: hooded men attack women's organisation leader at home

Glass workers appeal and prepare for strike vote

URGENT ACTION: Oilworkers union leader threatened

URGENT ACTION: son of Coca-Cola worker kidnapped

URGENT ACTION: Persecution of miners widens
URGENT ACTION: Agro-Mining Federation President detained

URGENT ACTION: Assassinations in BP production zone

Judge Jose Martinez and Coca-Cola

South Africa

Why we refuse to vote

South African seafarers still detained in Korea

Delft: Still waiting for shelter (Business Day)

Mike Terry

Camp closures: report from Bluefields
Countdown as closures set for Friday 30 Oct (Cape Times)

Woolworths mass strike and email campaign

Scabs open fire on municipal strikers

Delft evictions erupt into chaos (SA press)
Delft community occupy Symphony Road
Police shoot 3 children in Delft

Delft evictions: appeal to all concerned
Western Cape evictions and resistance escalate

Western Cape evictions trial on hold

Western Cape evictions court case 15 Jan

photoreport: Western Cape evictions
High Court halts Western Cape evictions

SAMWU march against municipal privatisation

New SAMWU website is online

Constitutional Court refuses to hear case for reinstatement

Goldfields miners die in rush-job for bosses ‘bonus’

Cape Town removals: call to boycott First National Bank
Exchange of letters with Housing Minister
Delft, South Africa – where Joe Slovo residents may go
Joe Slovo informal settlement in Cape Town facing eviction
Cape Town: police attack Joe Slovo shackdwellers blockade

Public Service workers dispute website

Images of the South African public sector strike
(Rob Rees, SAMWU)

COSATU memorandum on the public services dispute

NEHAWU strike resources
Metalworkers set to join public sector strike
COSATU giants plan sympathy action
UNISON solidarity with South African strike
Public sector unions threaten to shut down government
Why the government refuses to grant the 12% increase

Kennedy 5 hunger strike and march
Detained South African activists on hunger strike
Durban: crackdown on shackdwellers’ movement

Cape Town: shackdwellers rally

Cape Town: scrap arrears campaign

Mandela Park Anti-Eviction Youth statement

Cape Town: Community condemns police arrests of shack dweller youths

Ray Alexander - trade unionist, internationalist

Retrenched Samancor workers leaflet NUMSA conference

Iran

Haft Tapeh, Worker news reports 23 Dec 08

Workers struggles in Iran - 28 Nov update

Israel and the threat of war with Iran
Zionism: propaganda and sordid reality - London 12 Oct
nb change of date, venue: 12 Oct 2008 - 5:15pm, The Lucas Arms, 245a Grays Inn Road, Kings Cross

Workers struggles in Iran - 7 Oct update

Whipping and prison sentences for labour activists

Video and report of the HOPI weekend school

Haft Tapeh sugar cane workers strike - Day 15
5000 sugar cane workers on strike

Disturbing tactics against workers jailed for May Day rally

Report on May Day events in Iran

Mahmoud Salehi’s life is in danger

Updates on Salehi, Osanloo and Workers of Vahed Syndicate

Iran Video: Yassamine Mather (HOPI) debates Nick Cohen
Debate: intervention, sanctions, or grassroots democracy? London 29 Jan

Support Iran’s Jailed and Tortured Students

Salehi, Haft Tapeh Workers and New Arrests

Busworkers union vice-president Madadi freed
Labour activists arrested, Mahmoud Salehi hospitalised