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Feb 09 POWER STATION DISPUTES AND THE ROLE OF UNOFFICIAL ACTION
Dear Comrades,
 
We should not underestimate the significance of the unofficial action which has hit power stations across Britain in recent days.

  Workers are fighting for jobs, decent terms and conditions and trade unionism. Anti-union laws prohibit the main unions involved—Unite, the GMB and UCATT—from being seen to give any support to those involved. But many of the local leaders of the strike movement are shop stewards or local branch officers, and statements made by regional and national officials show where union sympathies lie.

  Placards held by strikers and protestors have a website address on them (www.bearfacts.co.uk) which leads to news and a forum. Messages of support for the strike movement can be posted there as well.
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How to use Midlands Google email

This is a PDF document that a takes a step by step approach to both Registering with this website and adding articles to the various sections.

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How to Register with website

This is a PDF document that a takes a step by step approach to both Registering with this website and adding articles to the various sections.

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Dispute at the Morning Star

Sunday, 25 January 2009

A dispute has arisen within the Morning Star between the management and the NUJ chapel (the journalists' union branch at the paper).

A press release from the Chapel was published on the NUJ website on Thursday, January 22, which states:

'Morning Star journalists could be walking off the job next month in the first ever pay strike at Britain’s "daily paper of the left". Sub-editors and reporters at the title are balloting for industrial action after bosses at the newspaper tore up a commitment to try to close the pay gap with other national journalists, despite receiving hundreds of thousands of pounds in new investment'.

The statement goes on to quote local NUJ rep, Steve Mather, who points out that the Morning Star’s journalists had 'proved their commitment to the paper time and time again'.  He says: 'Every year we are told that we are a "special case" – that the Morning Star does not make enough money to bring our wages up to the level of other journalists doing similar work'.

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Successful demonstrations in the Midlands.
 Gaza DemoCommunists gathered to support the call of the global anti war movement to demonstrate the worlds anger at the completely unjustified and disproportionate attacks by Israel. Thousands turned out in Birmingham on Saturday 17th January 2009 when communists distributed leaflets and sold Morning Stars and party material.

In Wolverhampton Queens Square, on Friday 16th January, Called by UKIM, Wolverhampton Palestine Solidarity Campaign, Wolves TUC over 200 protesters gathered with candles, wearing black clothing, carrying placards - a fantastic turnout, called at short notice.






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