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Tues 29 March - Hull
700 protest over lockout at Saltend, Hull
Hundreds of workers protested on Monday of this week in solidarity with workers locked out of the Saltend biofuel construction site in Hull, east Yorkshire.
Workers from North Lincolnshire refineries Lindsey and ConocoPhillips, Pembroke power station in Wales, and Ratcliffe-on-Soar power station in Nottinghamshire joined the locked out workers.
Management put up a fence to block a gate to the area that workers had used to hold rallies since the lockout started two weeks ago.
Workers marched to the gate to rally.
They then drove into Hull and marched around the town centre. They held a rally of up to 700 workers.
The lockout is a clear attempt to attack a militant workforce.
The industry is wracked with corruption. The building bosses run blacklists to keep trade union militants off their sites.
As long as the poisonous system of contracting and subcontracting remains, there will be constant attempts to set worker against worker.
Everyone must stand against such divisions.
Militancy and unofficial action on construction sites terrifies the employers.
The delegations from other sites on the demonstration shows the potential for solidarity.
Since this is a national attack, there needs to be a national response.
Shutting down every construction site, power station and refinery around Britain would hit the multinationals where it hurts—in their profits.
Solidarity, including militant industrial action, is the only language the construction bosses understand.
National action has the power not just to win back the jobs, but to transform construction in favour of workers.
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NASUWT

Tues 22 March - Wales – Powys
Powys teachers strike to save jobs
Teachers at a high school in Powys, Wales, are striking against compulsory redundancies. The NASUWT union members at Brecon High School struck on Thursday of last week.
They have five more strike dates planned—on Wednesday and Thursday of next week, and 5, 6 and 7 April.
Last week’s strike closed the school to all students except sixth formers. Rex Phillips, NASUWT organiser for Wales, described the action as “solid”.
Six jobs are under threat.
The head teacher, Ingrid Gallagher, claims that the school “has more staff than it needs”. But the NASUWT has accused the school’s governors of financial mismanagement and says they have turned a £100,000 surplus into a projected £650,000 deficit.

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NUT

Go from Fury at the bankers on the streets of tower hamlets

Coventry teachers say no to academy
Teachers at Tile Hill Wood School and Language College in Coventry struck on Tuesday of this week against plans to turn their school into an academy.
The NUT union members unanimously backed strikes in a ballot, and 75 percent turned out to vote. Workers struck for half a day in the morning.

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UCU

Lecturers strike on
More than 100,000 lecturers struck last week. It was the biggest strike yet under David Cameron’s government—and it showed two things.
First, the strike won huge support, particularly among students. And second, lecturers want to keep fighting—and want to strike with other workers.
The action, on Thursday of last week, hit colleges and universities across Britain and Northern Ireland. The UCU union members are fighting attacks on their pension schemes, lack of protection over jobs and derisory below-inflation pay offers.
It had a big impact. Lots of classes were cancelled and few crossed picket lines. In lots of places, more pickets were out than during previous strikes.
Martyn Moss, a UCU regional official, said the strike at Liverpool Hope University was “the most solid in history. Not a single university lecturer went into work”.

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PCS

UB40 speaks out against Tory cuts
UB40 band members Brian Travers and Jimmy Brown spoke out against unemployment at a Birmingham Against the Cuts press conference on Wednesday.
The press conference called on as many people as possible to join the TUC protest against the cuts this Saturday. It also highlighted rising unemployment in Birmingham, which now stands at 1 in 10— the title of a song by the band in 1981.
The band were joined by trade unionists, councillors and anti-cuts activists.


Unemployment in the West Midlands stands at 9.9 percent—that’s 265,000 people out of work, an increase of 27,000 in the last three months.
Caroline Johnson, assistant secretary of Birmingham Unison announced that the union has 18 coaches going to the demonstration on Saturday.
She said that Birmingham City Council’s plan to sack 7,000 workers as part of their budget cuts must be opposed.
Birmingham Unison is preparing to ballot its members in the coming weeks for industrial action against the cuts.
Other speakers included Birmingham Council Labour group leader Albert Bore, Tony Conway from the PCS and Mary Pearson from the NUT.


Jimmy Brown from UB40 closed the press conference saying that “a massive injustice is taking place”—because working people didn’t create the crisis, but will be expected to pay for it.
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