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hitmouse
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JustEat/Stuart strike hits day 100:
iwgb.org.uk
Longest gig-economy strike hits day 100 as Stuart Delivery boss admits to pay cuts in meeting
The longest gig-economy strike in history hits day 100 as JustEat subcontractor Stuart Delivery’s UK general manager Brendan Hamill declares pay was previously too high in recent meetings with a union representative.
iwgb.org.uk
hitmouse
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Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: How to sustain strike action and win. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
What if a few days or weeks of strike action do not work? What if your action goes on for months? Join us for an important workshop and action planning meeting with union reps and stewards who have led long periods of strike action. This meeting will be practical and interactive, open to all...
What if a few days or weeks of strike action do not work? What if your action goes on for months?
Join us for an important workshop and action planning meeting with union reps and stewards who have led long periods of strike action. This meeting will be practical and interactive, open to all trade union workplace reps and stewards, strike leaders and branch officers who organise at the workplace.
The meeting will be led and facilitated by:
- Jane Hardy, Author of Nothing to lose but our chains.
- Gary Walker, Unite shift rep at CHEP
- Khalil Lange, IWGB Sheffield branch rep
- Pat McGrath, Unite convenor at B&Q Wincanton
hitmouse
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Chep strike fundraiser:
Help support 66 striking workers, organized by Mike P
Help us to support 66 striking workers that are fighting for better pay. Workers at CHEP’s … Mike P needs your support for Help support 66 striking workers
www.gofundme.com
hitmouse
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Avanti West Coast cleaners out this weekend:
Also, this sounds like it could be very big:
Atalian Servest West Coast cleaners return to the picket lines
As Atalian Servest cleaners return to the picket lines this weekend for a 48-hour strike on 9 and 10 April, a new report has exposed the brutal reality of life for cleaners working to clean Avanti West Coast trains.
www.rmt.org.uk
hitmouse
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'I didn’t think it would last this long': Inside the UK's longest current strike
'It’s such a physically demanding job - and we feel we should be rewarded for that'
hitmouse
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Churchill rail cleaners out for 11 days from the 27th on:
Also, RMT calling mass meetings on the 25th and 26th in Manchester and Liverpool:
Not 100% clear if they're for the public or just members? These two are definitely just for RMT members though:
Churchill cleaners to take 11 days strike action over pay
Contracted out cleaning staff will mount picket lines for 11 days from April 27 to May 7 in their fight for a £15 per hour pay rate.
www.rmt.org.uk
Also, RMT calling mass meetings on the 25th and 26th in Manchester and Liverpool:
Not 100% clear if they're for the public or just members? These two are definitely just for RMT members though:
teqniq
DisMembered
This is a bit weird, which is why I've held off posting it. Unite says there is workplace bulling happening but GMB who are by far the larger union amongst the refuse workers say that nothing has been bought to them by members regarding the same:
www.voice.wales
Cardiff Bin Strike - Union Says Workers Are Humiliated If Work Isn’t Done On Time -
Reading Time: 6 minutes Refuse workers in the Unite union in Cardiff recently voted overwhelmingly for strike action in a dispute over bullying and the use of agency workers by Cardiff Council. Tom Davies spoke to Unite regional organiser Ruth Hyndon about the reasons behind the strike vote...
www.voice.wales
hitmouse
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Hmmm, do we need a whole thread for "weird inter-union disputes among bin workers"? Looking at this situation very much from the outside, I would speculate that one reason for that difference might be if the GMB reps include a person, or indeed more than one, who bullied workers don't feel comfortable talking to about these issues, but that is just speculation on my part.This is a bit weird, which is why I've held off posting it. Unite says there is workplace bulling happening but GMB who are by far the larger union amongst the refuse workers say that nothing has been bought to them by members regarding the same:
Cardiff Bin Strike - Union Says Workers Are Humiliated If Work Isn’t Done On Time -
Reading Time: 6 minutes Refuse workers in the Unite union in Cardiff recently voted overwhelmingly for strike action in a dispute over bullying and the use of agency workers by Cardiff Council. Tom Davies spoke to Unite regional organiser Ruth Hyndon about the reasons behind the strike vote...
hitmouse
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Other RMT mass meetings coming up in Poole, Donny and London:
hitmouse
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Great Ormond Street security guards rally, April 29th:
[Friday 29 April, 12.00pm]End racist outsourcing at Great Ormond Street Hospital!
UVW
www.uvwunion.org.uk
hitmouse
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Inflation-beating 14% pay victory ends long-running strike at Chep
www.unitetheunion.org
Striking warehouse staff to return to work for first time in 21 WEEKS
"This was a tough dispute but the workers stood their ground and won an excellent deal"
Unite slightly overselling what's been won here, headline is 14% but the small print is:
"The workers will receive a 9 per cent pay increase which on average is worth £2,500. Other elements of the deal, including a £1000 lump sum and three extra days of annual leave this year, mean that the total package is worth as much as 14 per cent while real inflation (RPI) runs at 9 per cent.
The company has also agreed to address the union’s concerns about excessive disciplinary sanctions and to further talks to address pay parity with other Chep sites."
But still, a pretty hefty win from a seriously determined and impressive strike.
hitmouse
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Crowdfunder for the Churchill cleaners' strike:
www.justgiving.com
There's someone on twitter claiming a manager drove their car at pickets, not seen any further info on it though:
Help raise £20000 to RMT Cleaners' Dispute
Weʼre raising money to RMT Cleaners' Dispute. Support this JustGiving Crowdfunding Page.
www.justgiving.com
There's someone on twitter claiming a manager drove their car at pickets, not seen any further info on it though:
Puddy_Tat
naturally fluffy
Bus drivers at Arriva London South out again next week
While comparison of basic hourly rates can be misleading (some operators pay the basic hourly rate for more or less everything, others have a basic rate plus additional payments for longer duties and / or 'unsocial hours', some pay meal breaks through, some don't pay them at all, some pay the difference if the meal break is longer than x minutes) it may say something that Arriva seemed to be advertising for drivers almost continuously while other S London operators didn't have vacancies during the post-2008 recession...
South London Arriva bus drivers set to strike over pay
Arriva drives who are members of the Unite union are set to hold 24-hour and 48-hour strikes.
www.bbc.co.uk
While comparison of basic hourly rates can be misleading (some operators pay the basic hourly rate for more or less everything, others have a basic rate plus additional payments for longer duties and / or 'unsocial hours', some pay meal breaks through, some don't pay them at all, some pay the difference if the meal break is longer than x minutes) it may say something that Arriva seemed to be advertising for drivers almost continuously while other S London operators didn't have vacancies during the post-2008 recession...
hitmouse
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Rally in support of the Coventry bin strikers tomorrrow:
No word on whether Starmer will be able to make it.
Also, Manchester bin strike is off:
www.unitetheunion.org
But Unite talking up the possibility of action at various councils, especially Scottish ones:
www.unitetheunion.org
Also, Manchester bin strike is off:
Threat of Manchester bin strikes over as Biffa workers accept improved pay offer
www.unitetheunion.org
UK councils braced for summer shutdowns as pay strikes spread
www.unitetheunion.org
hitmouse
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Online supporters meeting for the JustEat strike tomorrow:
us02web.zoom.us
Sounds like summat big's meant to be happening on Tuesday 17th:
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: JustEat strike supporters meeting. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
A meeting for members of the public who want to support the historic UK gig economy strike being waged by food delivery couriers
Sounds like summat big's meant to be happening on Tuesday 17th:
hitmouse
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Round up of a few things:
CAIWU now in dispute over pay and conditions for cleaners and porters at Royal Opera House, will be holding a demo on Friday 20th:
I'd totally missed the Unite/NEU staff strike till now (a strike by NEU staffers organised through Unite against victimisation of a colleague), sounds like a proper fucking mess but has now apparently been resolved:
www.unitetheunion.org
labourhub.org.uk
And a bit of video from the ongoing bin strike in Coventry:
CAIWU now in dispute over pay and conditions for cleaners and porters at Royal Opera House, will be holding a demo on Friday 20th:
I'd totally missed the Unite/NEU staff strike till now (a strike by NEU staffers organised through Unite against victimisation of a colleague), sounds like a proper fucking mess but has now apparently been resolved:
Unite members to strike following unfair disciplining of activist by the NEU
www.unitetheunion.org
NEU workers take strike action
Officials working for Europe’s biggest education union, the National Education Union, are taking strike action over the alleged victimisation of their union representative. This is the first strike…
labourhub.org.uk
And a bit of video from the ongoing bin strike in Coventry:
ACG article on the GMB coming to the rescue of Deliveroo
www.anarchistcommunism.org
GMB in pact with Deliveroo to undermine grassroots organising - Anarchist Communist Group
The online food delivery company, Deliveroo, have fought every attempt at self-organisation by their couriers since around 2016. Unions such as the Independent Workers of Great Britain (IWGB) and, in some regions, the Couriers Network of the Industrial Workers of the World, were active in...
www.anarchistcommunism.org
Not the UK, but there was an anti-war general strike in Italy today. This from the USI-CIT (Italian anarcho-syndicalist union) :
Thousands in Bologna on a strike against the war!
From the USI-CIT on 05/22/2022
Today a general and social strike called by basic and conflictual trade unionism, participated by thousands of male and female workers, political and social realities, middle students fighting against alternating school work, young Palestinians and many and many others in the square in Bologna united to say No to war.
Closed warehouses and production sites, closed schools, local public transport stopped, tens of thousands in our territory adhere to the strike against the war, the war economy and the war government, yes to the increase in social spending.
Over twenty squares mobilized simultaneously throughout Italy with demonstrations and garrisons in front of NATO military bases.
The demonstration in Bologna which started from Piazza XX Settembre with the banner carried by the workers of the organizing trade unions read: Out of the war, increase wages and social expenses.
The parade continued along via Amendola and via Marconi where in front of the trade union offices of the CISL and CGIL there were interventions by workers who underlined the importance of the general strike and condemned the union policies aimed at not disturbing the government. Draghi, the government of war, despite the overwhelming majority of workers in the entire country are for the immediate end of co-belligerence.
Confindustria is also contested in Via Barberia and is trying to make female and male workers pay the prices of crises and the war economy.
The demonstration ended under the windows of the Municipality where the war party governs, responsible for an unprecedented attack on the living conditions of the popular sectors destined to pay for its belligerent folly.
All the speeches underlined the great participation in the strike and the demonstration, the unity of action against the war and the need to continue mobilizing on the following slogans:
immediate blocking of arms shipments to Ukraine;
immediate ceasefire
cutting military spending and transferring these resources to education, transport and public health;
freezing of the prices of basic necessities (food such as bread and pasta, electricity, water and gas tariffs, etc.);
introduction of the sliding scale: automatic adjustment of wages to price increases;
reduced working hours for equal wages and a new freeze on layoffs to contain the next waves of unemployment.
decent social income for all unemployed
ITALY OUT OF THE WAR
increase wages and social expenses
Basic and conflictual unions
Thousands in Bologna on a strike against the war!
From the USI-CIT on 05/22/2022
Today a general and social strike called by basic and conflictual trade unionism, participated by thousands of male and female workers, political and social realities, middle students fighting against alternating school work, young Palestinians and many and many others in the square in Bologna united to say No to war.
Closed warehouses and production sites, closed schools, local public transport stopped, tens of thousands in our territory adhere to the strike against the war, the war economy and the war government, yes to the increase in social spending.
Over twenty squares mobilized simultaneously throughout Italy with demonstrations and garrisons in front of NATO military bases.
The demonstration in Bologna which started from Piazza XX Settembre with the banner carried by the workers of the organizing trade unions read: Out of the war, increase wages and social expenses.
The parade continued along via Amendola and via Marconi where in front of the trade union offices of the CISL and CGIL there were interventions by workers who underlined the importance of the general strike and condemned the union policies aimed at not disturbing the government. Draghi, the government of war, despite the overwhelming majority of workers in the entire country are for the immediate end of co-belligerence.
Confindustria is also contested in Via Barberia and is trying to make female and male workers pay the prices of crises and the war economy.
The demonstration ended under the windows of the Municipality where the war party governs, responsible for an unprecedented attack on the living conditions of the popular sectors destined to pay for its belligerent folly.
All the speeches underlined the great participation in the strike and the demonstration, the unity of action against the war and the need to continue mobilizing on the following slogans:
immediate blocking of arms shipments to Ukraine;
immediate ceasefire
cutting military spending and transferring these resources to education, transport and public health;
freezing of the prices of basic necessities (food such as bread and pasta, electricity, water and gas tariffs, etc.);
introduction of the sliding scale: automatic adjustment of wages to price increases;
reduced working hours for equal wages and a new freeze on layoffs to contain the next waves of unemployment.
decent social income for all unemployed
ITALY OUT OF THE WAR
increase wages and social expenses
Basic and conflictual unions
hitmouse
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National RMT ballot closes on Tuesday, result should be known on Wednesday:
Also sounds like they'll be striking at two tube stations over the Jubilee:
Will there be a national rail strike?
A strike ballot of 40,000 members of the RMT union closes on Tuesday.
www.bbc.co.uk
Tube strike action set for Queen's Jubilee
Tube union RMT members at both stations have suffered years of intimidation, bullying and unjustified sackings of colleagues by a manager who has created a toxic atmosphere in the workplace.
www.rmt.org.uk
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