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UVW private school cleaners' strike is off now cos they've won:

Outsourced jobcentre security staff announce more strike dates:

And passport staff at Heathrow striking over a new roster:
Also, volunteers wanted for an attempt at organising in hospitality:
GAILS's campaign volunteers sign-up
We want to invite you to get involved in a new Organise Now campaign that moves from supporting workers who reach out to us, to actively building a campaign at a company: GAIL’s! We’ve chosen GAIL’s because it is a non-union hospitality chain. It is expanding rapidly and there is leverage that workers can build both in-store and in the supply chain. The aim of the campaign is as follows: to develop a worker campaign at GAIL’s related to pay and conditions, to support GAIL’s workers building power in the workplace, to develop a trade union structure to support GAIL’s workers bargaining and negotiating with the employer, and to seek recognition of BFAWU at GAIL’s

To do this, we need to speak to workers and build public support. Our aim is to do as many GAIL’s workplace visits as possible, aiming to build relationships and understand the issues in the workplace. We will use novel social media targeting alongside this to build up contacts at GAIL’s. We then need experienced coaches who can tailor their support to GAIL’s workers. Once all this is in place, we will go public with a worker-led campaign. To make this campaign a success, we need volunteers with experience like you. Do you want to get involved in unionising GAIL’s?

Sign up below for our first meeting at 6pm, Thursday 12th of September
 
Outsourced workers at Sheffield First Bus depot to strike on 12, 20, 24, 30 September and 8, 9,16, 17, 24 and 25 October.

Sheffield Veolia refuse workers have also been out on indefinite strike since 20th August over union recognition.

Colchester NHS staff to strike against outsourcing plans from 10-14 September.
On that last one:
Please send messages of solidarity to branch@ciah-unison.co.uk.

And if you’re able to send financial support to the strikers, please send it to:

UNISON Colchester & Ipswich Area Health
UNITY Bank
Sort code: 60-83-01;
Account number: 20403881
Reference: STRIKE
 
UVW asking people to write to the Natural History & Science Museum bosses asking them to negotiate with staff ahead of a potential strike:
I filled out the form. I only saw your post because I am thinking of visiting the sciecne museum next week, and did a search to see if their were any posts about it.
 
I filled out the form. I only saw your post because I am thinking of visiting the sciecne museum next week, and did a search to see if their were any posts about it.
I have just discovered that, although it is still free to visit the Science Museum, you have to book a ticket in advance, specifying a half hour period on a particular day. I will be in London next week for an appointment, but I have not much idea what time I would want to go to the Museum. Why are these things so complicated? No wonder they don't care about paying higher wages to the guards.
 
Vote To accept recent deal:

ASLEF:

YES 10,971 (96.58%), NO 389 (3.42%), Turnout 11,365 (88.53%)
 
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UVW fundraiser party for the striking museum guards in mid-October:

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Party to celebrate our wins and fundraise for our strikes! 🔥


Have fun and help us fund our next fight!



Are you ready to party to support museum security guards and all our comrades on strike?


Join us for an evening of solidarity, fun and comradeship with BBQ, music, raffle, drinks and dancing. All proceeds will go to the UVW strike fund.


Let’s come together to celebrate our members’ recent victories, including at JAGS school, while gearing up for the next fight in the Natural History and Science museums!


There might even be a giant piñata! 🪅
 
Outsourced caterers and cleaners striking at the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office in East Kilbride on 24, 25 and 26 September, and a further 8 days of walkouts on 1, 3, 8, 10, 15, 17, 22 and 24 October.

The G4S DWP dispute continues, asking for people to support picket lines on the following days this coming week:

Monday

  • Birkenhead – Brunswick House, Price Street, 8am
  • Bradford – Westfield House, 9am
  • Grimsby - Bridge House, Victoria Street, 8-10.30am
  • Handsworth – Jobcentre Plus, 9.30-11am
  • Middleton – Jobcentre Plus, Othen House, Oldham Road, 7am
  • Oldham – Tweedale House, Union Street, 9am
  • Pudsey jobcentre, 8.30am
  • St Helens - Gregson House, 8.15-10am
  • Sheffield - Hillsborough Jobcentre, Cavalry and Lancer Court, 639-641 Penistone Road, Sheffield, S6 2GG
Tuesday

  • Birkenhead – Brunswick House, Price Street, 8am
  • Bradford – Westfield House, 9am
  • Grimsby - Bridge House, Victoria Street, 8-10.30am
  • Middleton – Jobcentre Plus, Othen House, Oldham Road, 7am
  • Oldham – Tweedale House, Union Street, 9am
  • St Helens - Gregson House, 8.15-10am
  • Sheffield - Bailey Court Jobcentre, 112 West Street, Sheffield, S1 3SY
  • Walsall - Bridle Court Jobcentre Plus – 8.30-10am.
Wednesday

  • Birkenhead – Brunswick House, Price Street, 8am
  • Bradford – Westfield House, 9am
  • Grimsby - Bridge House, Victoria Street, 8-10.30am
  • Hanley - Jobcentre, Huntbach Street, 10am
  • Middleton – Jobcentre Plus, Othen House, Oldham Road, 7am
  • Oldham – Tweedale House, Union Street, 9am
  • St Helens - Gregson House, 8.15-10am
  • Sheffield - Cavendish Court, 9 Bank Street, Sheffield, S1 2DR.
Thursday

  • Birkenhead – Brunswick House, Price Street, 8am
  • Bradford – Westfield House, 9am
  • Grimsby - Bridge House, Victoria Street, 8-10.30am
  • Middleton – Jobcentre Plus, Othen House, Oldham Road, 7am
  • Oldham – Tweedale House, Union Street, 9am
  • St Helens - Gregson House, 8.15-10am
  • Sheffield - Hartshead Square, 1 Hartshead Square, Sheffield, S1 2FD
Friday

  • Birkenhead – Jobcentre Plus, Brunswick House, Price Street, 8am
  • Bradford – Westfield House, 9am
  • Grimsby - Bridge House, Victoria Street, 8-10.30am
  • Middleton – Jobcentre Plus, Othen House, Oldham Road, 7am
  • Oldham – Tweedale House, Union Street, 9am
  • St Helens – Gregson House, 8.15-10am
  • Sheffield - Kings Court, 80 Hanover Way, Sheffield, S3 7UF


Saturday

  • Bradford – Westfield House, 9am
  • Grimsby - Bridge House, Victoria Street, 8-10.30am

First ever-strike by workers making Tetley Tea in Teesside (pleasing bit of alliteration there) to continue on Monday 23rd.

Food preparation workers at Bakkavor in Spalding, Lincolnshire, to start indefinite strike over low pay from Friday 27th on.

Oscar Mayer ready-meal staff in Wrexham in the middle of a strike over fire and rehire running from 12 September to 10 October.

Labour have of course promised to ban fire and rehire within their first 100 days, although they've not got around to it just yet.
 
Upcoming strike dates by Social Care Support Officers in Lancashire:
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Strike fund donations can be made at:
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NASUWT members to strike against school closures in Northumberland in October:
Further strike action confirmed at schools in Berwick, Tweedmouth and Wooler

If anyone's going to Troublemakers at Work on Saturday, that'll have a strike fundraiser afterparty:

And Manchester mental health workers have just voted to strike, there doesn't seem to be any info on it other than on bloody shitter though:
The Manchester Early Intervention in Psychosis Service have voted overwhelmingly in favour of industrial action. Our first strike day is on Wednesday the 16th of October outside our based at Chorlton House, 70 Manchester Road, Chorlton, M21 9UN.
 
Sheffield bus depot workers to strike throughout October and November, with Doncaster depot workers balloting to potentially join them.

New strike days announced for jobcentre guards: "The new strike dates are from 1pm on 18 October to 11:59pm on 20 October, 1pm to 11.59pm on 21 October, from 1pm on 25 October to 11:59pm on 27th, 1pm to 11:59pm on 28 October and 1pm on 1 November to 11:59pm on 3 November, 1pm to 11:59pm on 4 November, 1pm on 8 November to 11.59pm on 10 November and 1pm to 11:59pm on 11 November."

Caterers and cleaners at the civil service offices in East Kilbride to take another six days' strike action this month.

Biomedical scientists in York, Scarborough & Bridlington to strike on the 7th and 11th.

Tata's Teesside Tetley Tea workers striking again on October 10th. And while it's a pleasingly alliterative sentence, does sound like the dispute is getting nasty:

Tensions were between workers and bosses were further inflamed when management called the police during previous industrial action, claiming the predominantly women strikers were being ‘intimidating’.

Police took no action and now the company has launched an injunction against them for trespass.

All-out strike action continues at Veolia in Sheffield.
 
BBC article on the mental health care crisis ahead of next week's strike:

Also, eCourier riders organised through the IWGB are balloting for strike action, wildly bonkers choice of font for their video though:



You can donate to their strike fund here, and thankfully the donation page only features that font a very minimal amount:

Oh, and reminder that the UVW's strike solidarity party is just over a week away:
 
Upcoming strike dates by Social Care Support Officers in Lancashire:
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Strike fund donations can be made at:
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NASUWT members to strike against school closures in Northumberland in October:
Further strike action confirmed at schools in Berwick, Tweedmouth and Wooler

If anyone's going to Troublemakers at Work on Saturday, that'll have a strike fundraiser afterparty:

And Manchester mental health workers have just voted to strike, there doesn't seem to be any info on it other than on bloody shitter though:
The Manchester Early Intervention in Psychosis Service have voted overwhelmingly in favour of industrial action. Our first strike day is on Wednesday the 16th of October outside our based at Chorlton House, 70 Manchester Road, Chorlton, M21 9UN.
The mental health strike is apparently now moved and will be happening at Prestwich Hospital, Bury New Road, M25 3BL instead.
 
From UVW:

Join the picket outside the Science Museum on 26 October at 10am


Saturday 26 October, 10am
Science Museum, Exhibition Road, SW7 2DD

Outsourced migrant security guards at the Natural History and Science Museums are going on strike in a fight for fair pay and conditions, on the same day that thousands of far-right Tommy Robinson supporters will descend on central London. As an anti-racist union, United Voices of the World (UVW) are calling on members and supporters to take to the streets to join a lively picket outside the museums before marching together to join the national anti-fascist mobilisation.

Over 95% of the 70 security guards who are UVW members and employed by Wilson James across the Natural History and Science Museum have returned an overwhelming vote of 96% in favour of strike action. Despite multiple invitations for negotiation, Wilson James has repeatedly refused to engage in meaningful dialogue to discuss the guards demands for £16 per hour, full pay sick pay and increased annual leave.

At 10am on Saturday 26 October, security guards at the both museums will be holding a picket line and afterwards will be supporting a national anti-fascist mobilisation against the far-right hate preacher Tommy Robinson and his supporters, who are protesting in London that day. The fight for fair working conditions and the fight against racism and fascism are intertwined. We must stand together to defend our communities and uphold the dignity of all workers, regardless of their background.

UVW is calling on our members and supporters to:

 
Liverpool housing workers to strike on Wednesday 16th and 23rd:

Rally in Colchester on Saturday to support NHS staff striking against outsourcing:

Unite continuing the fight against fire and rehire by Oscar Mayer in Wrexham.
 
I like to announce strikes to my students in this way
Our advice: don't travel to class without checking in here. Tell your pals!

Thank you to the people who've been keeping us up to date about planned strike action this week. Many of the train strikes have been called off when the employer offered to resume talks and make better deals with workers. Aslef will call its members out on strike on Thursday 7th November across the tube network and it's likely that no tube services will run. This is because their employer did not yet make a realistic offer.

We don't know yet if this will go ahead 100% as the threat of strike action can help bring employers back with a new offer. Incident: LU IA | National Rail
 

Following a resounding 97% vote in favour of strike action by National Education Union members who teach in sixth form colleges, strike days have been announced across 32 colleges on the following dates: 28 November, 3 December and 4 December 2024.




PCS members employed by OCS as caterers and cleaners and employed by G4S as security officers at the FCDO at Abercrombie House in East Kilbride are set to strike for the month of December until 3 January.

PCS members employed by G4S as security officers, receptionists and pass office staff at a number of workplaces in London including Cabinet Office, Department for Business and Trade, the Canary Wharf Hub and Department for Science, Innovation and Technology will take five more days of strike action in November (25 to 29) and a further five days in December (9 to 13).

Also found out that PCS have started doing these weekly round-ups of broader union activity:

Unison Northwest strike dates this month:

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Some ITV coverage of the Manchester mental health dispute:
 
Science Museum guards to strike again this weekend:
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V&A and Harrods staff may also be striking again soon:


Also, Unite and Unison have both run ballots at Transport for Greater Manchester and got really impressive results:

Both unions at Transport for Greater Manchester have informed the employer of the results of their industrial action ballots:
  • Unite members returned a 90% vote for strike on a 70% turnout.
  • UNISON members returned a 79.13% for strike and a 86.96% vote for action short of strike on an 80.42% turnout.
 
Science Museum guards to strike again this weekend:
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V&A and Harrods staff may also be striking again soon:


Also, Unite and Unison have both run ballots at Transport for Greater Manchester and got really impressive results:

Both unions at Transport for Greater Manchester have informed the employer of the results of their industrial action ballots:
  • Unite members returned a 90% vote for strike on a 70% turnout.
  • UNISON members returned a 79.13% for strike and a 86.96% vote for action short of strike on an 80.42% turnout.
I've just posted about the science museum in the watches thread!
 
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