Category Archives: Solidarity

Time Magazine: Person Of The Year 2011: The Protester

BY RICK STENGEL History often emerges only in retrospect. Events become significant only when looked back on. No one could have known that when a Tunisian fruit vendor set himself on fire in a public square in a town barely on … Continue reading

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LCDTU launches new website

The Liaison Committee For The Defence Of Trade Unions has launched a re-vamped website and it can now be found by clicking here. The LCDTU blogspot will remain up until the end of January. LCDTU Secretary Barry Camfield has been … Continue reading

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Last few days: Special reduced price for ‘Goodbye Barcelona’

 In 1936 a Fascism sweeps across Europe, one country reaches out in its hour of need and thousands of ordinary people make an extraordinary decision to help. Mothers and fathers, sons and daughters, they travel to Spain from all over the … Continue reading

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UPDATED! Thousands Around the World Tell Cooper Tire “End The Lockout!”

Thousands of trade unionists joined the United Steelworkers (USW) at a solidarity rally to support 1,051 members of USW Local 207L who have been locked out of their jobs at Cooper Tire and Rubber Co. since November 28th, 2011, when … Continue reading

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Possible imprisonment of Greek union officials

The following is a statement by the International Liaison Committee of Workers and Peoples (ILC). Stop the prosecution of Nikos Photopoulos and his comrades from the GENOP-DEH union immediately. We have just been informed by representatives of the Greek public power … Continue reading

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Unite’s UnionTV at Unilever Strike, Port Sunlight

On 9th December Unilever workers across the UK took part in the first ever national strike at the company. Martin Scanlon of Unite’s Union TV went to Unilever’s home of research and development in Port Sunlight to hear from workers … Continue reading

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AWU’s Paul Howes on the attacks on trade unions in Fiji

The following is an update on the current situation in Fiji where trade unions are being repressed by the government. It was sent to us by Paul Howes, who is the National Secretary of the Australian Workers Union. The fifth … Continue reading

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Locked out NZ meat workers need help

New Zealand’s reputation as a meat supplier to the UK is now under threat because of the ongoing lockout of workers at a New Zealand meat plant, the NZ Council of Trade Unions has said. Over 100 workers, members of … Continue reading

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Bert Ramelson remembered in new biography

Legendary Communist Party industrial organiser Bert Ramelson was honoured by activists this week at the launch of a political biography about his life and work. Authors Roger Seifert and Tom Sibley spoke at a packed meeting, chaired by former Unison General … Continue reading

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Updated: Steelworkers locked out by Cooper Tires in Ohio

In an increasingly bitter dispute Unite’s partner union in Workers Uniting, the United Steelworkers are taking legal action against global tyre making giant Cooper Tires alleging that company committed unfair labour practices in bargaining and imposing a lockout at its … Continue reading

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