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Israel – Palestine

Demo: 60th anniversary of the Nakba - London 10 May

Palestinan union: Boycott the ‘Israel at 60’ celebrations!

Canadian Postal Workers resolve to boycott Israeli apartheid

Artists pulling out of Israel celebrations
Boycott the visit of South African writer Nadine Gordimer!
Gordimer faces Israel furore
Letter from Gaza to Nadine Gordimer
Letters to Nadine Gordimer

Never Again

Massacre in Beit Hanoun

Gaza: the Holocaust continues
Gaza is dying

Apartheid Wall: Bil’in non-violent campaigners Liverpool 22 April

Protest now to stop Mousa’s administrative detention

Sanctions leaflet

PSC Trade Union delegation to Palestine

Open letter to Arab Summit in Damascus

US Labor and Gaza

Interview with Single-State activist Dr. Haidar Eid (Electronic Intifada)

Demand EU re-open Rafah border crossing!
Protest at Rafah crossing - late March 2008

Wave of arrests at Birzeit university

International Women’s Day in Tel-Aviv

A defeated policy, not a defeated people (Electronic Intifada)

COSATU condemns Israeli massacres
South African Municipal Workers Union condemns the actions of Israel

Palestinian Trade Unions on Gaza
Trade union building targeted in Gaza

Action on Gaza (PSC)
Manchester demos 7-8 Mar

EMERGENCY ACTION (PSC): End Israel's killing of Palestinians now! Lift the siege on Gaza! Saturday 8 March 4-6pm opposite Downing Street. Write, email and phone your MP

The Gaza Bombshell (Vanity Fair)
The Gaza documents (Vanity Fair)
Gaza Bombshell author interviewed (Democracy Now)
The US plan to start a Palestinian civil war (Electronic Intifada)

Condoleezza Rice is not welcome in Palestine

Union of Health Work Committees photo report and appeal
Gaza: Urgent Appeal from Union of Health Work Committees (Word, Arabic & English)

Gaza (Jewish Peace News)

Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza while the world watches
Israeli Minister threatens “holocaust”; public demand ceasefire
Israel massacres 18 Palestinians, including a toddler
Palestinian medical centre hit in air strike

Strategy behind the siege of Gaza

Electronic Intifada
Palestinian Centre for Human Rights
Rafah Today

A. Abdul Fattah Speaking Tour

March 8 - Arab and Jewish women march through Tel Aviv

Yibna, War Crimes, the General: 27 Feb Islington

End the Siege of Gaza - Sat 23 Feb Downing St

Palestinian public sector strike

Israel kills 8 Palestinians in Bureij refugee camp, Gaza

Gaza relief convoy supplies arriving, after 2 weeks

LSE Union Demands Divestment from Israel

Defend the Sawt-el-Amel 8

Farmworkers in Israel hit by harsh winter

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Manchester demo: Richard Searle
Liverpool vigil: John Usher

End the siege of Gaza! London demo 9 Feb

Israeli Apartheid Week
South Africa launch
London 11-16 Feb
Israel, Apartheid, Sanctions (2005)

Palestinians of Gaza use people power to stay alive

End the Siege on Gaza: Northern Demo noon 2 Feb BBC M’cr

Tribute to George Habash: 3 Feb Manchester

George Habash’s contribution to the Palestinian struggle (Electronic Intifada)

Gaza Convoy: 1500 Israelis protesting the blockade

End the Siege of Gaza - protests B’ham, Leicester, London
Stop the Siege of Gaza: M’cr 26 Jan

Prison walls broken - Israeli / Palestinian & int’l demos 26 Jan

Mass prison break from Gaza

Palestinians break through border wall
Crisis at Rafah Border Crossing
Solidarity with Gaza: Sanctions against Israeli War Crimes!

One hour before it’s dark

Remember the Holocaust, Speak Out on Palestine

Israel blocks UN aid to Gaza and kills 37 Palestinians

UNISON: Urgent Action - Palestine / UK

West Bank Palestinian workers in Israeli settlements

Israel proposes oil pipeline

New Profile: Liverpool 29 Jan (PDF 2.3Mb)

Fresh massacre in Gaza

Boycott Bush in Palestine

End the siege on Gaza - Downing St. protest Sat 12 Jan

Continuing Israeli massacre in Gaza
Nazareth demo against siege of Gaza
Israeli peace convoy to Gaza

Happy New Year from Gaza

Cape Town to Egypt: Open the Rafah crossing!
US to Egypt: aid conditional on siege of Gaza
Italian delegation blocked

Help! a Ceasefire!

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Israel and Palestine more coverage

Our Health –
or Their Wealth?

Lobby MPs re sacked nurse May 7th

NHS Pay Cut - the numbers

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
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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

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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)

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Anti-War

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

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 ouvri�re pour mettre fin � 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)

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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Pay strikes

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

Hazards

Hazards website

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

Education

www.teachers.org.uk

YouTube - NUTteachers' Channel

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

Civil Service

PCS website

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

31 Jan Tax Strike suspended for talks

Home Office staff in work-to-rule over low pay

Revenue and customs staff in strike ballot over cuts

Agreement reached over BAA pensions dispute

PCS responds to interim report on Child Benefit loss
PCS responds to Driving Standards Agency data loss

Support grows on Day 2 of DWP strike
Massive support on Day 1 of DWP strike
DWP call 2 day strike 6-7 Dec
DWP vote for strike on below inflation pay

QinetiQ: PCS responds to Audit Office Report

Child Benefit: jobs cuts could compromise security

PCS responds to Border Force announcement

Serious Organised Crime Agency staff reject pay offer

PCS responds to Queen’s Speech

Fantastics acts to party for public services 7 Nov London Scala

Alternative Queen’s Speech: Public Services

Civil and Public Servants vote overwhelmingly for more industrial action

Civil Servants Strike Over Caxton Ten

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Dockers and Portworkers

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

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
more photos

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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National Shop Stewards Network

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

Fight Racism
Defend Migrants

Trade Union and Community Conference
against Immigration Controls London 29 Mar

Manchester 1st May: health care for all

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

Southall Black Sisters closure threat

UNISON member wins battle against deportation

Mansoor Hassan victory

Remember the Holocaust, Speak Out on Palestine

Midlands & South Yorks anti-fascist/anti-racist conference: Nottingham 21 Jan

Harmondsworth 4 trial starts 14 Jan
Harmondsworth 4 trial adjourned - demo postponed
Defend the Harmondsworth 4!: demo 7 Jan London

France: mass protests in 2 detention centres

Campsfield riot update

Access to Health Care for Vulnerable Migrants under threat

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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Colombia

Cuban tour

Cuban revolutionaries speaking tour

South Africa

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

Asbestos

Action Mesothelioma Day 27 Feb

Canada: End asbestos exports now

Cape Dust

Auto

Rail / Tube

Greg Tucker

Public Services not Private Profit, Willesden 12 Sept

End London Underground Privatisation
Protest at Metronet on Wednesday, September 5
Join RMT in demanding the return of Metronet to the public sector with a protest outside the failed Tube privateer on Wednesday between 11.30am and 12.30pm at Templar House, 81-87 High Holborn, London WC1V 6NU.

Londoners want Tube maintenance back in-house (RMT)

RMT welcomes talks in Metronet dispute (RMT)

ITF-WEA Railway workers summer school 13-14 Sept

Eurostar cleaners to strike 18 December
Eurostar cleaners vote for strike to end low pay

Bob Crow speech to Transport Workers Solidarity conference

RMT stewards conference report (Solidarity)

Railtrack pleads guilty to Ladbroke Grove

Stop East London Line privatisation

RMT shop stewards conference 28 Oct

Book: Japan Rail in Danger - translation 1

ASLEF anger at reduced fine for Hatfield firm

Japan: Diary of a guard
Japan: Amagasaki rail disaster anniversary 25 April

RMT open forum report: the crisis in working class representation
RMT call open forum on the crisis in working class representation

RMT re-issues call to avert 2nd strike

Bristol RMT website

Tube cleaners demand �6.70/hr

Privatisation caused Japanese rail disaster
Japan: Rail strike against speed-up, hazards, privatisation and war
Japan: Relocated railworkers win back their jobs

ASLEF website

for more please use Search form with keywords "RMT" or "ASLEF" or "rail"

NUJ

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!

Local Government

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

Iran

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

Bush and Olmert intent on war with Iran

Workers’ struggles in Iran - 12 Nov 2007

Mansour Osanloo video

Osanloo and Madadi received a total of 7 years in Jail

Condemn assassination attempt on worker activist Majid Hamidi

Mansour Osanloo: ITF campaign

Iran controversy at Stop the War AGM

Workers struggles in Iran, Sept 9

Condemn the kidnapping of busworkers union leader Mansour Osanloo!

Mahmoud Salehi: Anti-union repression continues

8 May Day detainees released

Teachers mass protest

May Day clashes with Security Forces

More teachers arrested!

Mahmood Salehi, leading labour activist arrested

Iranian teachers leader arrested

Iranian teachers wage protest outside Parliament

Iran: Trial of Mansour Ossanlou

Iran: Paris solidarity meeting

Iran: Protesting textile workers arrested

Tehran Bus union activists sacked by Government

Iran Khodro workers commemorate miners killed in Babak Shahr

Against Imperialst War, for Iran Workers

No War on Iran!

Iran: union statement as bus worker released

Iran: Bus worker imprisoned
Iran: International Labour Solidarity statement

Iran: Student protests in Tehran

Iran: Holocaust denial

Iran: Identifying our Enemies

Iran: Update on workers in struggle

6 detained workers released after May Day arrests

Labour activists sentences repealed!

For an alliance against war, in support of Iranian workers’ struggles

Tehran bus workers update 17 Apr and letter to President
Tehran bus workers: 5 released, 2 still imprisoned
International Day of Trade Union Action on Iran 15 Feb

TU petition to Iranian Embassy

Tehran Bus workers: 200 released, hundreds still in prison

Letter from families of strikers
Several hundred unionists still in jail

Regime crushes Tehran Bus Strike
Hundreds arrested, bus workers face mass dismissal

Iran, US, Israel: APFUTU letter to Bush

Iran more coverage

Jordan clothing strike

3000 guest workers strike international clothing supplier

CWU

CWU website

Burslem strike demo Sat 19 Jan Stoke-on-Trent

Postal Exec interview (Solidarity magazine)

Postal workers organise for a ‘no’ vote: London 27 Oct

Royal Mail Chief Exec’s comments are a disgrace

Royal Mail bullying - the strike in Macclesfield

royalmailchat

Postal strike 4-6 Oct. and Manchester picket lines

Public Services not Private Profit, Willesden 12 Sept

Death by careless driving: Royal Mail scab manager charged

CWU North-West demo report and photos
Postal Workers North-West regional demo 21 July

CWU letter to North-West unions

Postal workers chat site

Royal Mail: next strike 12-13 July

Royal Mail: CWU email cascade

Postal workers back strike action on pay

CWU disowns Johnson, censors Exec

Royal Mail Offer Rejected and Postal Strike Ballot To Go Ahead

Macclesfield postal workers stand up for their mate

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Disability

Roy Webb

Welfare Reform: the ‘unthinkable’ about to happen?

Welfare Reform Bill lobby and rally 4 Dec

Learning Disabilities: organising against privatisation

Campaign Against the Welfare Reform Bill lobbies Labour Conf.

Stroll, Roll, Rally... against the Incap Cuts
National demo against cuts in Disability Benefit Sheffield 17 June

24 out of 351 English Councils have 100% Disabled Access

GMB comment on public procurement and disability

Campaign for employees with a disability

New Labour attack Disability Benefit

Disability activists claim victory
Manchester City Council bans disability action website

Rover, T&GWU and Disability Discrimination

Disability – a union issue
The Union of the Physically Impaired Against Segregation

Remploy

Remploy demo Bradford 29 Jan

Subcontracting

Subcontracting and Temporary Labour Supply in Chile

UNISON

for NHS pay see NHS

for Karen Reissman see NHS

for boycott vote see Israel and Palestine

Glasgow Daycare strike update

Local disputes of national importance!

Newham Council suspends UNISON branch chair

UNISON NEC election results

Oxford Park & Ride strike

Unique Care sacks 18 Unison members for resisting bullying

Support for Yunus Bakhsh

Defend UNISON activists under investigation
UNISON activist investigated: Tony Staunton statement

Coventry UNISON strike over single status

Westminster UNISON lobby 25th Jan against job transfers to Scotland

UNISON activists sacked By Sefton Council
Sefton suspensions: Lobby Sefton Council 1 Nov

Coventry Single Status Rally 23 July
Coventry Local Gov’t: Single Status Battle

UNISON wins historic equal pay battle
Carlisle Equal Pay Victory

Philippines

Broad labour alliance against casualisation

Trade Union Freedom Bill

TUFB Parliamentary Rally: thanks to supporters
TUFB Parliamentary Rally and Demo 18 October

Impact of US labor relations on UK: Institute for Employment Rights

Trade Union Freedom Bill: National Rally Thurs 1 March

Trade Union Freedom Bill: Sheffield TUC letter to MPs

Trade Union Freedom Bill: Liverpool 28 Feb

Coca-Cola

Imminent death threat to Coca-Cola workers, picket Coke 20 Dec

URGENT ACTION: son of Coca-Cola worker kidnapped

Judge Jose Martinez and Coca-Cola

Please use Search form with keywords "Coke" or "Coca-Cola" for more coverage.
See also: Colombia

Germany

Strike Bike!

LabourNet Germany: English site launched

Climate

Dr. Helen Caldicott: Nuclear Power can’t stop climate change - SERA Manchester 4 Oct

Climate Camp Action Climax

Police attempt raid at Climate Camp

500 locked out at Waste Management

Planning for labour movement conference on climate change

Miners

Mine safety in China

Donegal uranium mining rebuffed, again

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

Mining Heritage of Durham builds Bookfair

Communities confront Mining: London 18 Oct

Call for BBC enquiry on Orgreave coverage

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

Freeport copper mine concedes to 4 day walkout in West Papua

Anglo-American: public meeting London 18 April

Colombian Coal Miners strike Drummond

NUM to speak at anarchist festival

GMB

Equal Pay: EAT overturns Allen tribunal decision

Yorkshire officials lose jobs in union fracas (Yorkshire Post)

Migrant workers union branch launched

UK Pay League

League table for Council spending on Care Homes

Road safety: Chauffeur on 70 hour week

Offshore workers: Union agreement regardless of country of origin

AA roadshow tackles Damon Buffini: Maidstone and Dover

Remploy: 100 Strong GMB Disabled Demo at John Hutton�s Office
Asda Wal-Mart strike and picket lines

ASDA Wal-Mart no progress in talks about talks
ASDA shop stewards statement on talks offer
ASDA activist sacked for displaying England flag

Remploy disabled workers campaign website to save jobs

J.F. Stone sacks two migrant workers for complaining at 60 hour week

GMB Congress policy on proposed merger

GMB National Conference 2006

GMB gives official notice of Asda strike ballot
Asda Wal-Mart film screening: Leicester 2 June

Asda Wal-Mart Grangemouth accident
Victimisation on eve of national ballot
What shoppers think of ASDA Wal-Mart
ASDA National Strike Ballot now on

First Ontario

First Ontario strikers reject final offer
Ballot result

Strikers occupy First Ontario

First Ontario rally videos

First Ontario update

First Ontario coverage is “terrible, outrageous”

First Ontario strike update: letter to St. Catharine’s News
First Ontario credit union strike

Pensions

Allied Steel & Wire pensions fight (Gagged)

GMB: Act now to protect next 100,000 pensions at risk

Update on Local Government negotiations

EDM to annual Local Government Regulation amendment

No time to call off action
Local Government Pensions strikes suspended
Manchester TUC email to UNISON North-West Regional Sec.

More strikes planned as Gov’t presses on

GMB: pensions strike actions across England, Scotland and Wales
GMB: Biggest strike since 1926

Indymedia pensions strike reports
Liverpool pensions strike reports

UNISON suspends Labour election campaign during pensions dispute

UNISON pensions strike events
UNISON North-West: All Out 28 March
Sheffield TUC: solidarity with Local Government strikers 28 March

UNISON: Massive pensions strike looms as unions join together
T&GWU: 1.5 million Council staff to strike for pensions justice
GMB: Local government vote 4-1 for strike action to protect pensions
for links to other union sites coverage see the UNISON article above

Defend our Pensions: Manchester 2 March

Unions start pensions strike clock ticking

NHS Pensions Agency on strike over effect of privatisation
NHS Pensions Agency vote to strike 20 Jan

NHS Pensions Agency To Be Privatised

Rentokil closure of pension fund

British Gas pensions deal put to vote
British Gas ACAS talks stall
British Gas Engineers strike solid, employer calls for ACAS

British Gas engineers ballot as Centrica close pensions for new starters

UNISON United Left: No victory yet
UNISON NW Region condemns deal
Petition to reject TUC Pensions deal
Manchester TUC letter to TUC Gen. Sec.

UNISON healthworkers comment
PCS comment
Local Government Pensions and Council Tax
GMB comment

Please use Search form with keyword "pensions" for previous coverage.

USDAW

Ladbrooke’s pay strike postponed

Grampian County Foods Meat Production closure

USDAW seeks union recognition at M&S

Holiday boost for retail staff

USDAW Supports TESCO Finance Workers

Clamping down on minimum wage cheats

Firefighters

FBU court ruling and elections

Benefit for Merseyside FBU 20 Oct.

Firefighters demo in Liverpool hears
FBU Gen Sec. Matt Wrack tell
Chief Fire Officer McGuirk –

“here are the real firefighters”

photos: Bob Pounder, NUJ

Solidarity with Merseyside Firefighters: March and Rally 15 Sep

Matt Wrack 20 Oct Manchester Industrial Relations Society

Matt Wrack elected General Secretary

FBU bans Grassroots FBU

Living Wage

The fight for a living wage

Civil Liberties

Liberty should weep

INJUSTICE screening: Manchester 30 Mar

Jesse Jackson intervenes in mass sacking of Chicago rail workers

Sheffield TUC complains to US ambassador re treatment of Cuban delegation

Vote to repeal Serious Organised Crime and Police Act

A TU response to the erosion of Civil Liberties: London 10 June

House of Commons meeting on Anti-Terror laws 11 Oct.

Public Forum on London bombings and Civil Liberties: Leeds 22 Sept.

Miami 5: Who are the terrorists? (Word)

We are all terror suspects: Brighton 14 Sept.

Words Apart

For Civil Liberties, against the new Anti-Terror Laws
No2ID

Sex Work

Conference: Sex work and sex worker union organising

Protecting workers in the sex industry: What could unions do?
Sex Work: GMB comment on Government White Paper
Sex Worker wins first ever Unfair Dismissal ET

Anti-Privatisation

Privatisation caused Japanese rail disaster

Group4 and Wackenhut: Private Security Revelations

Bolivian Video: The Gas Is Not For Sale

South Africa: housing protestors occupy

Sefton Unison stewards suspended for housing transfer shop protest

MPs report shows Fourth Option for council housing viable

ANC attacks campaigners, Landless People’s Movement
South Africa: 52 arrests in anti-privatisation protest
South African police shoot dead students resisting eviction
ANC physically attacks Anti-Privatisation Forum members

Water is Life

Arnold Unplugged

Privatization, Contracting Out, Labor and Our Communities

The �1.1bn PFI hole in Manchester’s NHS budget

South Africa: Water War Updates 17 Oct.

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Internet, Radio, Video...

LabourNet Germany: English site launched
LaborTech 2006 The Digital Revolution and a Labor Media Strategy
LabourNet Germany raided
James Connolly film
To censor pro-union website, Telus blocked 766 others
Canada: Telecom company censors strike-support websites

Labor Express coverage of AFL-CIO convention