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Theory and practise of labor unions.
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NORTHERN RAIL STRIKE VOTE AGAINST CASUALISATION
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The News Line: Feature Wednesday, 22 May 2013 NORTHERN RAIL STRIKE VOTE AGAINST CASUALISATION
Manchester RMT members at Northern Rail have voted for strike action against casualisation
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RMT members at Northern Rail have voted for strike action against sackings and casualisation.’... more »
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TRAVEL SAFE WORKERS LOCKED OUT!
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The News Line: News Tuesday, 21 May 2013 TRAVEL SAFE WORKERS LOCKED OUT!
Travel Safe workers are determined to win decent working conditions and defeat the lockout
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LOCKED-OUT Travel Safe workers demonstrated yesterday morning outside the headquarters of London Overground Rail Operations Ltd (just outside Swiss Cottage tube station) against their ‘appalling working conditions’.... more »
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No confidence in Gove by heads
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The News Line: Editorial Tuesday, 21 May 2013 No confidence in Gove by heads At their annual conference the largest head teachers union, NAHT, passed a motion of no-confidence in the Tory education minister Michael Gove and the whole government policy on education.
Gove, who was present for a question and answer session with delegates, was also on the receiving end of a bruising encounter with heads who heckled and jeered him.... more »
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Unions now encourage law-breaking illegal immigration
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By JENNIFER MEDINA
LOS ANGELES — As the head of the hotel workers’ union here in the 1990s, Maria Elena Durazo negotiated a contract with provisions rarely seen by labor unions: The jobs of workers who were deported or lost authorization... more »
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TUC ‘stands ready to assist FBU’ – O’Grady tells FBU conference
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The News Line: News Saturday, 18 May 2013 TUC ‘stands ready to assist FBU’ – O’Grady tells FBU conference
Hundreds march through Brixton on Thursday night to defend their fire station
THE Fire Brigades Union yesterday angrily condemned the government-commissioned Knight Review of the fire service.... more »
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Defend the fire service with occupations, strike action and a general strike
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The News Line: Editorial Saturday, 18 May 2013 Defend the fire service with occupations, strike action and a general strike FIREFIGHTERS at their conference yesterday decided to put a seven-point pensions plan to ministers and seek new talks to try to avoid strike action over the massive changes the coalition has planned for their pensions.... more »
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Reformists and Stalinists seek to break Greek teachers’ struggle
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The News Line: Editorial Friday, 17 May 2013 Reformists and Stalinists seek to break Greek teachers’ struggle THE confrontation between Greek teachers and the Greek state and its EU masters has erupted this week after all teachers were served at the weekend with ‘civil mobilisation’ papers, signed and stamped by an army brigadier.... more »
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STRIKES & SUICIDES CONTINUE AT THE FOXCONN FACTORY
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The News Line: Feature Thursday, 16 May 2013 STRIKES & SUICIDES CONTINUE AT THE FOXCONN FACTORY FOXCONN'S promise of facilitating a democratic trade union is only for their marketing image, says a research team based in several universities in the People’s Republic of China and Hong Kong.... more »
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