Strike!

[Puddy_Tat]

 

[hitmouse]

Will have to wait and see where else is affected, but there's definitely a wildcat happening at Grangemouth:

 

[hitmouse]

Grangemouth refinery entrance blocked by 'wildcat' strike as workers down tools

Around 250 maintenance contractors temporarily blocked an access road outside the Petroineos-owned plant in Grangemouth.

www.dailyrecord.co.uk

And Fawley and Drax as well, from the sounds of it:


Video from Fawley:

 

[hitmouse]

Valero contractors stage major wildcat strike over pay conditions

Over 250 Valero refinery contractors have staged a major wildcat strike in protest over a cost-of-living pay row.

www.westerntelegraph.co.uk

 

[hitmouse]

Report from Drax:

Drax workers walk out over pay cut

Placard at the protest outside Drax – photo Iain Dalton Hundreds of workers ar Drax Power Station, near Selby, joined a series of national walk outs over the refusal of the Engineering Constr…

leedssocialistparty.wordpress.com

 

[teqniq]

Another wildcat strike this time in Pembrokeshire (I presume it's Milford Haven):

Valero: Pembroke refinery workers strike over pay offer

Valero: Pembroke refinery workers strike over pay offer

www.bbc.com

 

[hitmouse]

Mossmorran as well:

Mossmorran: Wildcat strike as hundreds join picket line in pay dispute

Striking workers have blocked the main entrance to Fife's Mossmorran petrochemical plant in a dispute over pay. Around 250 contractors employed at the

www.thecourier.co.uk

 

[teqniq]

 

[Chilli.s]

31% !!!!!!

 

[NoXion]

Good on them. I'd love a pay rise of that magnitude myself.

 

[hitmouse]

The wave of Amazon walkouts is ongoing as well - can click through for the whole thread, sounds like it keeps spreading to new sites including Donny:




Regarding Fawley, interesting to note that it's one of the sites that was hit by wildcats yesterday - I don't know enough about the industry to say whether Securitas would've been one of the contractors involved, I would guess probably not, but even if it wasn't directly related, I would think that any wildcat strike at the site would probably have a good effect on employers?

 

[Chilli.s]

Amaxon have failed a couple of delivery promises for me in the last month, and both times Iv got a £5 credit out of them, solidarity

 

[moochedit]

Any Amazon delivery staff striking or just the warehouse staff? Think the delivery all paid by the job (false self employment) aren't they?

 

[hitmouse]

Any Amazon delivery staff striking or just the warehouse staff? Think the delivery all paid by the job (false self employment) aren't they?

Good question, no idea how the delivery side is organised, but would guess that it's a much more isolated job, with even less of a chance to get to know your colleagues?

Anyway, new video from the striking outsourced NHS staff in Blackpool:

 

[hitmouse]

Turns out Humber Refinery walked out on Wednesday as well:

Humber Refinery contractors walkout in pay dispute

More than 250 people have walked out

www.grimsbytelegraph.co.uk

 

[hitmouse]

A printable bulletin collecting two reports from the Amazon wildcats:

Amazon workers' bulletin

by Notes from Below // A bulletin on the recent wildcat strikes at Amazon

notesfrombelow.org

 

[The39thStep]

Good question, no idea how the delivery side is organised, but would guess that it's a much more isolated job, with even less of a chance to get to know your colleagues?

Anyway, new video from the striking outsourced NHS staff in Blackpool:

Saw this yesterday and thought 'what a simple and effective way to say what the dispute is about'

 

[hitmouse]

Feels odd to see the Evening Standard running a primer on wildcat strikes and quoting the WSWS as a source, but here we are:

Workers across the UK are on wildcat strikes – here is what it means

Unofficial strikes are taking place alongside union-approved industrial action this summer

www.standard.co.uk

 

[teqniq]

 

[Smokeandsteam]

Another win for Unite workers, this time at BA:

 

[Smokeandsteam]

RMT picket lines on Thursday and Saturday in the West Midlands…

 

[hitmouse]

RMT Arriva pickets for Friday in London:


Also, looks like Liverpool port workers just delivered a really impressive strike vote, with others still balloting:

Liverpool docks braced for disruption after MDHC port operatives overwhelming strike vote

…

www.unitetheunion.org

 

[PR1Berske]

 

[Calamity1971]

 

[Lord Camomile]

Heh, did smirk when I saw that earlier

 

[Puddy_Tat]

a reply to that one

 

[Mr.Bishie]

The latest shit from Shapps, in a shit rag who’ve for some bizarre reason started calling Mick Lynch a ‘baron’ recently;

 

[Calamity1971]

The latest shit from Shapps, in a shit rag who’ve for some bizarre reason started calling Mick Lynch a ‘baron’ recently;

View attachment 338248

That wanker couldn't smash a fucking avocado.

 

[Louis MacNeice]

In our ballot over changes to terms and conditions CWU members voted 98.2% in favour of strike action on a 72% turnout.

Well done us - Louis MacNeice

 

[MickiQ]

The latest shit from Shapps, in a shit rag who’ve for some bizarre reason started calling Mick Lynch a ‘baron’ recently;

View attachment 338248

1 to 3 I think will probably make it harder to actually call a strike. The rest are largely pointless bar 10 &12 which I think are going to enrich a lot of lawyers as employers, unions, Govt and the courts get embroiled in rows over what a minimum service level is and how it can be reconciled with someone's fundamental right to withdraw their labour. As for whether a stike causes a national emergency I suspect that is going to a good one.