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General strikes all across Europe: Why not here?
Yesterday there were general strikes in Greece and the Basque Country. Last week workers in France and Italy walked out as well. Across Europe the working class is waking up to the threat posed by the attacks of European governments, but in the UK the response has still been quite muted. SSY has been involved [...]
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Going GAGA for workers' rights!
Now, America doesn’t do trade unions a whole lot. Despite a militant and often bloody labour tradition stretching back 200 years, trade union membership in the United States is now under 15% of the total workforce, and militancy in the workplace is rare. However, when it does do unions, it manages to get them SO [...]
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Happy May Day!
Today (and over the next few days) working class people will be celebrating our holiday, May Day. Throughout the world May Day is recognised by the labour and trade union movement as the day on which we celebrate workers and their struggles for justice. But the story of how socialists fought to make May 1st [...]
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Big 4 don't have a clue on workers' rights
The other night I was invited to a hustings debate by the PCS, the trade union for civil servants (e.g. passport office workers, jobcentre staff, tax collectors). It’s a union with a fairly interesting recent history, as it’s gone from being quite conservative – more like a staff association – in the 60s and 70s, [...]
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Nicola Sturgeon is rubbish
Deputy First Minister had her day campaigning on the streets ruined yesterday by an angry bin man. He hijacked her to demand to know why the SNP government wasn’t doing anything to support bin men facing brutal attacks from the SNP/Liberal coalition that runs Edinburgh City Council. The bin man, Charlie Docherty, did a pretty [...]
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Willie Walsh demands right to control life and death
In yet another example of rich people thinking that what is best for their wallet is best for everyone, British Airways boss Willie Walsh has today criticised the government for daring to cost his airline some money by not letting him fly through VOLCANIC FUCKING ASH. Members of the International Airline Association, i.e. a lot [...]
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Volcano strikes solidarity action with striking BA workers.
Travel chaos struck the UK as a Militant left-wing volcano took an illegal solidarity eruption with striking BA workers. This act of disruption has come shortly after Iceland rejected banker’s takeover of their economy and a large vote for the left-greens. Unite Union Baron Charlie Whelan told SSY today – “All of Thatcher’s anti-trade union [...]
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Glasgow Uni rallies against cuts
Earlier today over 200 staff and students at Glasgow University rallied against the ongoing ‘restructuring’ process and the cuts which, despite initial denials from management, are eventually beginning to come to light. Called by the UCU, the main lecturer’s union on campus, the demo also had a strong turnout from both Unite and Unison, who represent maintenance and [...]
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Scots? Scousers? They all sound the same to me
Where would you say the man in the above clip comes from? It doesn’t take a dialectologist to correctly guess he probably grew up in the Liverpool area. He’s Len McCluskey, assistant general secretary of the UNITE union, and the union official currently responsible for leading the BA cabin crew strike. With the Tories desperate [...]
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PCS strike back!
Thirty thousand civil servants (people who work in places like the Scottish Parliament, job centres, courts and tax offices) are on strike in Scotland today. The action is being taken by members of the PCS trade union, over changes to redundancy entitlement which mean that if staff lose their job, they could also lose up to a [...]
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