EVENTS BRITAIN 15 FEB ONWARDS
18 FEBRUARY – BRITAIN- SOUTHAMPTON COUNCIL WORKERS STORM COUNCIL BUILDING OVER CUTS
Council workers stormed the Southampton council meeting on cuts earlier this week. Over 400 workers held a lively protest outside Southampton Civic Centre booing and jeering at the Tory and Lib-Dem councillers as they entered the building. The council has threatened the workers with pay cuts, and with plans to cut subsidies to allotments which will hit pensioners hard.
Photo Southampton Unison
Photo Guy Smallman
About 50 demonstrators then managed to storm the building. Protestors banged in the doors of the council chamber where the meeting on cuts was being held. Eventually the mayor ordered the public to be removed from the public gallery to stop the shouting by demonstrators who were chanting “Same on you!”, “No pay cuts”, and “Same old lying Tories”.
Council workers in Unite and Unison union are being balloted for strike action should the council carry out its threat to sack all staff and re-employ them on the new term
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17 FEBRUARY – LONDON, UNITE UNION- PICKET OUTSIDE MEXICAN EMBASSY- SOLIDARITY TO MEXICAN WORKERS
On 17 February, a picket was held outside the Mexican embassy in London in protest at the continued violations of the right to freedom of association. The Unite union said that since 2006, the Mexican government has escalated its illegal and violent attacks on the Mexican Miners Union, following a 2006 explosion at Grupo Mexico’s Pasta de Conchos mine that killed 65 miners.
“The Mexican government has systematically and repeatedly violated Mexican law and international standards in an attempt to crush the Mexican Miners Union” Unite said.
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17th FEBRUARY - TEACHERS STRIKE TO SAVE STATE EDUCATION
Derbyshire teachers strike for second day in protest at plans to turn their school into an academy. Around 80 teachers joined the picket line of the county school. Some pupils stayed at home. Further strike action may be called in future over attacks on the teachers working conditions.
In some areas, pupils have been planning walkouts over the issue and in other areas, plans to turn schools into academies have be overturned.
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15 FEBRUARY – POST OFFICE COUNTER STAFF BEING BALLOTED FOR STRIKE ACTION
Almost 4000 workers at crown post offices across Britain are being balloted for strikes in a dispute over pay, job security and the future of the post office network. Despite increased profits, the post office bosses are refusing to consider a pay rise for counter staff. The ballot closes on 4 March.
CWU
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15 February - POSTAL WORKERS ON ISLE OF MAN TO VOTE ON STRIKE ACTION
Postal workers on Isle of Man are to vote this week on strike action over pay. This is the first time they have voted on strike action in living memory. The Communication Workers Union which represents 250 workers on the island is seeking a pay rise, the post office bosses say they intend to continue their pay freeze.
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WORKERS AT NOTTINGHAM COUNTY COUNCIL SET TO STRIKE
The workers are set to strike on Thursday 24 February over cuts in the council budget. A march and rally has also been called for on the same day the council announces its cuts to local services.
Some 2500 jobs are to go from the council. So far there are 1000 compulsory redundancies. The planned cuts by the local council include closing of libraries, closure of 25 adult care centres, the sell off of elderly persons’ homes and raising residents fees.
15 February - Port Talbot- South Wales
CLEANERS AT TATA STEELWORKS, STRIKE OVER PAY
Cleaners at the Tata steelworks in Port Talbot struck over pay on Monday and Tuesday this week. Members of the Community Union, they demand the same pay as the other contractors at the site. Talks have been underway since June last year, but with no results. Union scabs and other union busting methods have been employed by management. The workers are considering taking further strike action.
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LECTURERS OF UNIVERSITY OF WEST ENGLAND (UWE) GO ON STRIKE
The lecturers went out on strike last Thursday and plan to go out on strike this Friday 18 February. They are striking over plans by the university management to cut jobs and demote workers. Students at the university have also come out in support of the striking lecturers.
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