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Cleaners organised through CAIWU at luxury brand Net-A-Porter to strike on Valentine's day, bus to the pickets running from central London:

Email tool thing in support of them here: Fair Pay for Cleaners at Richemont-YNAP Charlton
Barnet mental health workers still going, day 23 starts next week:
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Cleaners organised through CAIWU at luxury brand Net-A-Porter to strike on Valentine's day, bus to the pickets running from central London:

Email tool thing in support of them here: Fair Pay for Cleaners at Richemont-YNAP Charlton

Update, the Net-A-Porter cleaners didn't need to go on strike in the end cos they won the London Living Wage backdated to November. They might still need to go on strike over an ongoing dispute over break times, but the employer now has until March 8th to sort that one out.
 
Staff at three more ASDA stores to start balloting:

Bit more on the Valentine's Day strike:
 
I was in Calder's @ Waterloo earlier in the week and bought Riding For Deliveroo by Callam Cant. Another take on the gig economy, this time from a push bike riders experience, though moped riders are touched upon.
At first it seemed politically heavy, touching on Marx and Engels but now seems to be getting down to experiences. Not sure if it's better or worse than the van drivers lot; it certainly sounds grim. It could even be extracts from his thesis.

Staff at three more ASDA stores to start balloting:

Bit more on the Valentine's Day strike:
It must have been quite an effort to organise. Sadly, I don't think it will make much difference to the workers or the people that use them.
 
It must have been quite an effort to organise. Sadly, I don't think it will make much difference to the workers or the people that use them.
Portugal has been dilly dallying with some legislation over what they call 'platform work' as the EU draft legislation is being held up. Both the Portuguese and the EU proposals don't go far enough although the Portuguese one is better than the heavily negotiated downwards EU draft.
 
Junior doctors in England out again for a few days from Saturday:
Welsh doctors have a separate set of dates, 21st-7:00 24th and then 25th-7:00 29th.
 
BMA going for three mega pickets this time round, London, Manchester, and Birmingham:
  • Monday 26th February
  • The Manchester Royal Infirmary, Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9WL
  • 8.00am to 11.00am
  • Monday 26th February
  • The Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham, Mindelsohn Way, Edgbaston, Birmingham, B15 2WB
  • 8.00am to 11.00am

  • Monday 26th February
  • St Thomas’ Hospital, Westminster Bridge Road, London, SE1 7EH
  • 8.00am to 11.00am
 
Email tool for Liverpool museums staff who are being denied the one-off cost-of-living payment that all other public sector staff got last year:

Also, BMA junior doctors due to strike in NI on March 6th, planned pickets for any Belfast urbs are:

  • Craigavon Hospital, Lurgan Road entrance, BT63 5QQ
  • 7.30am to 11.00am

  • Royal Victoria Hospital, Grosvenor Road entrance, Belfast, BT12 6BA
  • From 7.00am

  • Altnagelvin Hospital, Glenshane Road entrance, BT47 6SB
  • From 7.30am
 
Contracted-out staff working for Carlisle Support Services on Northern Rail striking over pay, union recognition, and working conditions tomorrow:
Picket details are:

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Fuck knows why strikers in Wigan have to get up so much earlier than the ones in Leeds and Manchester, presumably something to do with pies and/or Northern Soul?
 

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IWGB members due to strike at a debt advice charity this week:

The charity has now responded by sacking union members:

Hardship fund here: Support the Rooted Finance Strikers!
Demo demanding their reinstatement is planned for: Tuesday 19th March, 12.00 noon, 35 Gresse Street, London, W1T 1QY (short walk from Tottenham Court Road tube)

Biomedical scientists taking extensive strike action in Merseyside:

GMB members to strike at Amazon in Coventry this week and Birmingham the week after:

Wisbech ASDA staff to strike over Easter weekend:

Strike fundraiser for the Barnet mental health workers, 5th April:
 
Junior doctors in Wales will stage a full walk out from 7am on Monday 25 March to 7am on Friday 29 March.
NEU members taking eight days of action at a school in Redbridge:
And ASLEF announcing more dates in early April:
 
RMT members on CrossCountry trains out on the 13th:
Plus ASLEF stuff before then:
Members will walk out at Avanti West Coast, East Midlands Railway, West Midlands Trains, and CrossCountry on Friday 5 April; at Chiltern, GWR, LNER, Northern, and TransPennine Trains on Saturday 6 April; and at c2c, Greater Anglia, GTR Great Northern Thameslink, Southeastern, Southern/Gatwick Express, South Western Railway main line and depot drivers, and SWR Island Line on Monday 8 April.
 
The Wirral clinical support workers seem to have won their dispute, which I believe is meant to be the longest in the history of the NHS:

Buggered if I can find anything about it beyond that one instagram post though, you'd think that it might merit a press release or something but doesn't look like anyone's bothered putting one together. Oh well, congratulations to them anyway.
 
ASLEF picket line info:

Saturday 6th April​

Aylesbury​

On the corner of Station Boulevard, HP20 1RU

0900 - 1200

Barrow in Furness​

Station car park entrance, LA14 5QZ

08:00 - 13:00



Birmingham Moor Street​

Holloway Circus, B4 7UL

1000 - 1400



Blackpool North​

Front of station, FY1 2AB

09:00 - 13:30



Bristol​

Parkway Station, BS34 8PU

09:00 - 13:00

Temple Meads Station, BS1 6QF

10:00 - 14:00



Carlisle​

Front of station, CA1 1QZ

07:00 - 12:00

Doncaster​

Station front, DN1 1PE

0600 - 1000

Edinburgh Waverley​

Waverley Bridge, EH1 3EG

0900 - 1200



Exeter​

Outside Olds View Car Park, Waggoners Way, EX4 4NT

0600 - 1600



Glasgow Central​

Outside the front of the station, G1 3SL

09:00 - 12:00



Gloucester​

Outside The Station Hotel, GL1 1DG

0900 - 1300



Huddersfield​

St Georges Square, HD1 1JB

08:00 - 12:00



Leeds​

Leeds Station, City Square, LS1 4DY

07:00 - 13:00

Neville Hill Depot, Osmondthorpe Lane, LS9 9BJ

06:00 - 09:30



London King's Cross​

Outside station on the corner of York Way, N1 9AL

0800 - 1200



Paddington​

Eastbourne Terrace/Praed Street, W2 1RH

0900 - 1200



Par​

Outside station by the council car park, PL24 2LT

0800 - 1300



Penzance​

Outside the station, TR18 2LQ

10:00 - 14:00



Plymouth​

North Road East, Next to the Tower Cabs Office, PL4 6AQ

08:00 - 14:00



Reading​

Outside station opposite the Three Guineas, RG1 1PZ

08:00 - 13:00



Sheffield​

Sheaf Street, S1 2BP

06:00 - 16:00



Skipton​

Broughton Road, BD23 1RT

05:00 - 15:30



Stourbridge​

Opposite Seven Stars pub, Brook road, DY8 1NQ

0800 - 1200



Westbury​

Near the bus stop at the entrance to Station Road, BA13 4HP

1000 - 1200





Monday 8th April​

Ashford​

Main station approach, TN23 1EZ

05:00 - 15:00

International Entrance, TN23 1EZ

07:30 - 13:00

Bishop's Stortford​

Main entrance by the taxi rank, CM23 3BL

0500 - 1400



Cambridge​

Outside station car park, CB1 2JW

0700 - 1500



Clacton​

Outside the station, CO15 6PU

0900 - 1200



Colchester​

Front of station, CO1 1XD

0700 - 1100

King's Lynn​

Outside the station, PE30 1NX

14:00 - 16:30

Norwich​

Outside the signing on point in front of the railway station, NR1 1EF

0730 - 1530

Shoeburyness​

Station main entrance, SS3 9AW

0500 - 2130

Southend Victoria​

Outside station entrance, SS2 6AE

0700 - 1100

PCS demo coming up in Liverpool next week:
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NE bus strikes on hold to discuss a new pay offer, according to a press release by someone who seems a bit confused about what month it is.
Details of Barnet mental health workers (or wokers, according to their graphic) strike action:
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Strike action spreading at Asda:

And lots more action called by PCS staff at Liverpool museums:
 
Brighton ASDA strike dates confirmed:

Barnet mental health workers' action is continuing and escalating:

GXO Logistics warehouse workers striking in Feltham:

And jobcentre security staff organised through GMB have been striking over pay, and PCS just got a mandate to join them:
 
From the Guardian


Mick Whelan, the head of the Aslef train drivers’ union, has never even opened an email setting out a proposed deal to end strike action 17 months ago because he realised the offer was so bad it would be rejected, he has said.

In an interview with parliamentary magazine The House, Whelan said he had not met Mark Harper, the transport secretary, since December 2022, or Huw Merriman, the transport minister whose brief covers rail, since January 2023.

This was not usual, said Whelan, who has been Aslef’s general secretary since 2011, especially given his union has been staging intermittent strikes over pay and working conditions in England since July 2022.

A sign informing passengers about industrial action at Waterloo station in January 2024.
Rail strikes restart as Aslef train drivers embark on new action
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“In normal political cycles, you meet your minister a couple of times of year, so they can say he’s met with the trade unions, and you can get a few gripes off your chest. Occasionally, you might achieve something,” he said.

Explaining the December 2022 offer from the Rail Delivery Group, which brings together train operating companies, Whelan said it was sent to him 10 minutes before it was briefed to the media, which he said showed bad faith.


“On the day before New Year’s Eve, Keith [Aslef’s press officer] rang me at 3.40 in the afternoon and said: ‘The Mail, the Telegraph, the Sunday Express would like to know what you think of the deal’. Excuse me for a moment, what fucking deal?” Whelan recounted.

Details of the offer given to the media, showing it involved two years of 4% pay rises in exchange for the acceptance of changed working practices, had been widely seen by members before the union’s board met. He said: “We’ve got a building full of resolutions from the branches, ‘Don’t you dare ever sign anything like that, we’ll cut your throat,’ basically.”

The email was still in his inbox, unread, Whelan said. “I still haven’t opened it. Not to this day.”

This was in part to protest against the way the offer was handled, Whelan said, but also because he had once been involved in a court case in which the litigant said he had read an email, when it was one of his staff who did, meaning he is naturally cautious about opening some messages.

Whelan said his one meeting with Harper had been cordial, but that the transport secretary briefed the media otherwise: “I don’t believe I was rude or unprofessional. Next day it appeared in the Mail that he didn’t like my tone.

“My experience of Mark Harper is he fundamentally, obviously, doesn’t like me or he wouldn’t brief to the Mail. I haven’t seen him since.”

The other rail unions, the RMT and TSSA, have agreed deals with train operators, while Aslef has reached agreements in Scotland and Wales.

A Department for Transport spokesperson said: “The transport secretary and rail minister have already facilitated a pay offer that would take train drivers’ average salaries up to £65,000 – almost twice the UK average salary.

“Aslef are the only union left in dispute after the government oversaw deal

s with all the other unions.”
 
Couple of upcoming RMT dates as well, Avanti West Coast on Friday 7th:
And Carlisle/Northern Rail on Saturday 8th:

Manchester Piccadilly picket is meant to be running from 10-12 on the 7th.

Oh, and one more, junior doctors are gonna be striking for a week in the run-up to the election:

"After the general election was called last week the BMA gave the Government a final opportunity to make an offer and avoid strikes. This opportunity was not taken up.


As a result, the BMA’s junior doctors committee has decided to announce further strike dates which will take place in the run up to the General Election. This will involve a full walkout by junior doctors beginning at 7am on 27 June and ending at 7am on 2 July 2024.


More details about pickets and rallies will be available soon - let's make them our biggest and loudest yet."
 
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