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This is beyond a farce:
http://blogs.channel4.com/factcheck/factcheck-minister-in-the-thick-of-it-over-new-jobs/11013

(Re the threatened action by the PCS - in effect the government lies about the PCS action forcing them back - then try to lie again over the promises they have made to advertise 800 new jobs)

The PCS has issued a statement:
General secretary Mark Serwotka said: “”With these adverts posted one day after we called a strike then dangled in front of staff to try to dissuade them from taking action, this is now an incredible claim that raises very serious questions about the integrity of Home Office officials and ministers.
“It is either shambolic or a deliberate lie, and not only do we call on them to honour the 800 vacancies as advertised, we demand a full explanation into what happened, and an apology from the minister Damian Green who earlier accused us of making up these figures and claimed no new job ads had been posted since we threatened to strike.”
 
dennisr said:
This is beyond a farce:
http://blogs.channel4.com/factcheck/factcheck-minister-in-the-thick-of-it-over-new-jobs/11013

(Re the threatened action by the PCS - in effect the government lies about the PCS action forcing them back - then try to lie again over the promises they have made to advertise 800 new jobs)

The PCS has issued a statement:
General secretary Mark Serwotka said: “”With these adverts posted one day after we called a strike then dangled in front of staff to try to dissuade them from taking action, this is now an incredible claim that raises very serious questions about the integrity of Home Office officials and ministers.
“It is either shambolic or a deliberate lie, and not only do we call on them to honour the 800 vacancies as advertised, we demand a full explanation into what happened, and an apology from the minister Damian Green who earlier accused us of making up these figures and claimed no new job ads had been posted since we threatened to strike.”
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Dire. "administrative error" my arse.
 
Citizen66 said:
Beeb reporting it now.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-18968457
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Confirmed picket lines:

There Will be Two days of strike action beginning on 0530am on Friday 27th July Three companies are in dispute Carlisle (cleaners and security ) on the DLR ,Iss and initial cleaners on London Underground.
Please do your best to visit the pickets below and make a special effort to visit Stratford to show your support at 12noon on Friday


1 Walthamstow station 6am,2pm 7pm
2 Northumberland park 6am,2pm 7pm
3 West Ruislip depot 6am,2pm 7pm
4 Stratford station 6am,12 noon
5 Hainault depot 6am,2pm 7pm
6 London Bridge station 6am,2pm 7pm
7 Cockfosters station 6am,2pm 7pm
8 Ealing Common depot 6am,2pm 7pm
9 Golders Green depot 6am,2pm 7pm
10 Morden station 6am,2pm 7pm
11 Neasden Depot 6am,2pm 7pm
12 Poplar Dlr depot 0500 and 2100
13 Beckton Dlr depot(behind Gallions reach Dlr station) 0500 and 2100
 
Can anyone confirm that the Remploy strikes also includes plants in Wales?? :confused:.

Some lefties here in Swansea are pretty angry about the imminent closure in the city ...
 
William of Walworth said:
Can anyone confirm that the Remploy strikes also includes plants in Wales?? :confused:.

Some lefties here in Swansea are pretty angry about the imminent closure in the city ...
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Factories at Aberdare, Abertillery, Merthyr Tydfil, Swansea and Wrexham will close between August and mid-December with the loss of almost 200 jobs.
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http://www.itv.com/news/wales/2012-07-19/remploy-workers-to-strike-today/

The scheme might help the 183 workers currently threatened with redundancy at the five plants in Wales whose closure have been announced, but the factories would still close. Remploy which has played such a valuable role in our communities since 1946 would be gone for good in those areas. Redundant Remploy workers would find it easier to find new work, but the jobs would still be lost - they would move into jobs that other workers would have had. And the remaining three factories would be under a death sentence.
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http://www.swanseasocialistparty.or...h-government-must-save-remploy-factories.html
 
Interesting (and excellent imho...) trade union election result -
Steve Hedley has beaten Pat Sikorski to become RMT Assistant General Secretary. A position he will take up for a 5-year period from 12 August 2012.

Could not think of a better fighting representative of RMT members to win

For folk who know these folk
 
Cheers for that people - I knew about the threat to the factories themselves here obvs, my question was just to do with whether the strike action included the Welsh factories. dennisr's post earlier up didn't seem to include mention of them.

But good on those Welsh (and other) Remploy strikers ....
 
dennisr said:
Interesting (and excellent imho...) trade union election result -
Steve Hedley has beaten Pat Sikorski to become RMT Assistant General Secretary. A position he will take up for a 5-year period from 12 August 2012.

Could not think of a better fighting representative of RMT members to win

For folk who know these folk
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Nice one.
 
Not a strike but dispute with huge potential implications - small private hospital in Buckinghamshire is in severe financial trouble and is closing, the staff have been paid only 20% of last month's wages, lunchtime protests etc due to be held demanding "PAY UP NOW" etc
 
Victory for the John Lewis Cleaners :)

http://thethirdestate.net/2012/08/striking-cleaners-win-victory-against-john-lewis/

Cleaners at the flag ship John Lewis store on Oxford Street have won a fantastic victory against job cuts and low pay. The management have now agreed to withdraw, totally, plans for mass compulsory redundancy, and to give cleaners 10% pay rise, backdated to March – following a strike by staff who had organised themselves within the IWW.
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So why join a union? no redundancies and a 10% pay rise sound pretty damn good to me.. another victory for the IWW cleaners branch too, may they keep on coming.
 
dennisr said:
This is beyond a farce:
http://blogs.channel4.com/factcheck/factcheck-minister-in-the-thick-of-it-over-new-jobs/11013

(Re the threatened action by the PCS - in effect the government lies about the PCS action forcing them back - then try to lie again over the promises they have made to advertise 800 new jobs)

The PCS has issued a statement:
General secretary Mark Serwotka said: “”With these adverts posted one day after we called a strike then dangled in front of staff to try to dissuade them from taking action, this is now an incredible claim that raises very serious questions about the integrity of Home Office officials and ministers.
“It is either shambolic or a deliberate lie, and not only do we call on them to honour the 800 vacancies as advertised, we demand a full explanation into what happened, and an apology from the minister Damian Green who earlier accused us of making up these figures and claimed no new job ads had been posted since we threatened to strike.”
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just unbelievable, what else are they prepared to do?
 
BigTom said:
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Well in one of the places I work they just turned up to work as normal. :facepalm:

Difficult to be annoyed with them though given they earn so fucking little. Would probably hammer them financially even to have a day off. Hopefully they'll get the hang of it. Or the RMT should be digging deep to help out financially.
 
Citizen66 said:
Well in one of the places I work they just turned up to work as normal. :facepalm:

Difficult to be annoyed with them though given they earn so fucking little. Would probably hammer them financially even to have a day off. Hopefully they'll get the hang of it. Or the RMT should be digging deep to help out financially.
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Don't the RMT have a strike or hardship fund?
 
Dear friends and colleagues,
We want to notify you that because of management's continued
failure to enter into meaningful negotiations over an ill-conceived
cost cutting programme, including redundancies, Unite members at
Amnesty International (UK) will be going on strike for a second
time next Wednesday, 10 October 2012.

We greatly appreciated the support we received from individuals and
trade union branches during our strike in September, and hope you
will stand with us again. The many messages expressing solidarity
gave our members confidence, and the donations towards our hardship
fund enabled more members to participate in the action. We were
absolutely delighted about the many workplace delegations that came
to support us on our picket line and hope you will do so again!

We will send more details and info early next week, but please
share this email with others in the meantime. Messages of support
can be sent to union[at]amnesty.org.uk.

We are extremely grateful for donations to our hardship fund which
can be made in cash, bank transfer and cheque. Find details below.

Bank transfer:
Acc name: TGWU [ACTSS] 1/0524 Central London Bch
Sort code: 08 60 01
Account number: 30010808
Ensure that you put "AIUK strike fund" as reference.

Cheques: make them out to 'TGWU [ACTSS] 1/0524 Central London Bch'
and send to:
Daniela Manske - Unite Union (private & confidential), Amnesty
International (UK), 17-25 New Inn Yard, London EC2A 3EA
 
Queru about the recent Unison HE strike ballot (over 1% pay offer and Living Wage):

...members voted in favour by a very narrow margin,
  • 3432 in favour of taking strike action (50.3% of those voting);
  • 3385 against taking strike action (49.7% of those voting).
http://www.unison.org.uk/news/news_view.asp?did=8116

And I heard unofficially from a rep that the turnout was 7% :rolleyes:
Two questions:
1. is there any Tory/New Labour anti-union legislation that says ballots must have a minimum % turnout ?
2. is there any Tory/New Labour anti-union legislation that would say that the margin in favour of strike action in this case is too small?

I'm not that well-versed in these things, thanks for any help.

(must admit I'm surprised and disappointed in the results, 1% pay award is clearly a pisstake)
 
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