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Lambeth Trades Council was visited by Lambeth Green councillor and cabinet member Michael Chessum on 7 September, unveiling the Green council's new anti-austerity campaign ‘Services Worth Fighting For', set be launched two days later.
By: Mark Best
Back the PCS motion for a weekend demo For workers' unity against racist division Editorial of the Socialist issue 1381
Another Reform scandal is under way as two leading members of Reform step down pending an investigation. This comes after the recent release of an undercover Channel 4 investigation into Reform's dodgy political donations. James Orr and Dan Jukes's exit out of Reform after being caught out by undercover journalists posing as wealthy Americans. They were caught on film discussing plans for how money from a fake foreign donor could be funnelled into the party through his son.
Forklift drivers and machine operators at Ardagh Glass, employed by Lockwood Haulage, have begun all-out strike action. The workers, organised in Unite, have rejected a pay offer of just 1% after three years without any increase in pay, and are asking for 2.5% to keep up with the rising cost of living.
Keir Starmer was booted out due to his immense unpopularity following the Labour government's continuation of Tory austerity. Despite his pronouncements, in reality Andy Burnham, with the backing of all the Blairites and Starmerites in the Labour Party, is offering essentially the same.
Workers on the ferries, docks, railways, immigration services and border force in the Port of Dover carry out serious and crucial work. Their actual work can be dangerous and they have the right to work in a safe environment. The hate fuelled firebombing attack on a Dover immigration centre in 2022 remains fresh in our minds.
What a brilliant, enthusiastic bunch of young workers, striking for the modest demands of a real living wage – and water!
“The shareholders make millions from us, and we get bananas on a Tuesday!” said one of the striking workers on the picket line at SPS Technology in Leicester. He was referring to the fact that they regularly have fruit handed out on a Tuesday by the company.
Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) has announced a whopping 4,000 job cuts over the next two years. The Labour government's response has been to say that they're in “close contact” with the company but ruled out “any form of bailout”. So much for Burnham's ‘greater public control'. And speaking down the road from JLR, Chancellor John Healey backed ‘growth' but then ducked questions about JLR, grumbling about “fiscal instability”.
Unite members at Arriva London North have won a huge victory following strike action to protest the appalling temperatures on buses.
