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London bus workers to strike over fair pay
London’s bus workers to strike over ‘unfair’ pay disparities London’s 18 bus operators were accused of ‘burying their heads in the sand’ over ‘glaringly unfair’ pay disparities as Britain’s largest union, Unite announced that up to 27,000 bus workers would be taking part in a London wide bus strike on Tuesday 13 January. The 24 […]
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St Mungo’s Broadway strike rally in Harringey: rocketing union membership, and a will to persist
By Reuben Bard-Rosenburg Yesterday, workers at homeless charity St Mungo’s Broadway demonstrated outside Haringey Civic Centre, as they marked the final day of their week long strike. “One director told us that we wouldn’t find any work elsewhere because we were unemployable”, one worker told me. With bosses like this, its perhaps possible to understand […]
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Video: St Mungo’s Broadway Camden Strike Rally
St Mungo’s housing workers have been on strike all this week. If you’d like to know where their rallies are see here.
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Your snapshots: North London NHS on strike
Today we saw the first national NHS workers strike for over 32 years from 7 to 11 am. North London health workers were no exception and were out on the (very soggy) picket lines this morning. On that there twitter: Solidarity from @barnet_unison members to all health workers striking today against […]
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Support the YCB Care Workers’ Strike – Barnet
Hi Supporters Our care workers begin two days of strike action tomorrow. For Monday & Tuesday this week we are organising two picket lines which start from 7.30 am but they will be there for at least five hours on each day so please pop down to offer support and solidarity. Flower Lane day centre 41 […]
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North London on strike: our #J10 reports
Updated: 10:30 pm As the day goes on we hope to bring you more reports, photos and comments on today’s industrial action where around one million people across the country are thought to be on strike. Send us your pictures and reports from the strike in North London. You can either send it to office@northlondonstar.org.uk or […]
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Interview: George Binette (Camden Unison) on Thursday’s strike
We spoke to George Binette, branch secretary of Camden Unison, about Thursday’s strike action, how we can support his members and others as well as where the action goes after the industrial action. It may seem like we chose the noisiest part of Camden to conduct this interview, but this is simply the perils of filming […]
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Public sector strikes: All out on July 10th
Up to 2 million members of Unite, National Union of Teachers, Public and Commercial Services Union, Fire Brigades Union, Unison and GMB will all be taking strike action together on 10 July. This is the biggest co-ordinated strike action for years and we’d like to encourage people to visit their local picket lines and also […]
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Video: Kate Smurthwaite on why you should back the July 10th strikes
There’s also this Unison video of trade unionists talking about why they are going on strike. You can also watch Francesca Martinez, Kate Hudson and Caroline Lucas MP.
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