Category Archives: Solidarity

Locked out Unite MMP members @ Grand National

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UK unemployment to rocket by 100,000 – Unemployment to be ‘permanent feature’

The Institute For Public Policy Research (IPPR) is predicting that unemployment will rocket by 100,000 before the end of the summer 2012. The IPPR says it could be 18 months before the UK jobless total falls. The North-west and Eastern … Continue reading

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Rally – May 5th – The Life & Times Of Bert Ramelson

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Channel 4 Fact Check – Do Oil Tanker Drivers Earn £45k?

The claim “Tanker drivers are paid on average £45,000 a year – double that of a regular haulage driver.” Government department DECC press release, 26th March 2012 The background Wednesday’s talks to avoid a fuel tanker strike will bring to a head a dispute … Continue reading

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Locked out and sacked MMP workers demonstrate outside Austrian Embassy

Locked out and sacked UK workers from Austrian multi-national packaging firm MMP (Mayr-Melnhof Packaging) in Liverpool, along with breakfast cereal character effigies – Tony the Tiger, Coco Monkey and Cornelius Rooster – bring their fight to the Austrian Embassy in … Continue reading

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Oil Tanker Drivers – Len McCluskey in The Times

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US unions join plan to train 10,000 Occupy Protestors

The Occupy Movement has proved to be a 21st century phenomenon. As each month goes by they have become more sophisticated, radicalising young people, trade unioinists and community groups – no where more so than in the USA.  Now a … Continue reading

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MMP faces legal action by Unite

Cereal workers being starved of legal entitlements Unite is to take legal action against Austrian owned Mayr-Melnhof Packaging (MMP) over the unlawful dismissal of its workforce and closure of the site in Bootle, Liverpool. The workers make packaging for some … Continue reading

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A date for your diary…..April 16th – fighting back against the ConDem’s attack on workers rights!

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Rio Tinto Lock Out – Alma, Canada

Thousands of workers marched through the streets of Alma in Lac Saint-Jean, Canada to demand an end to a lock out by Rio Tinto and to fight for the preservation of jobs at the Rio Tinto Alcan (RTA) smelter. Three months … Continue reading

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