Campaign news archive - September 2009

Postal workers fight for the future of the service

CWU members in Royal Mail have been taking strike action to defend jobs, terms and conditions, and the future of the UK postal service. To learn more about the dispute, download the LRC flyer ‘Support the Postal Workers’. You can download this briefing sheet to circulate via email or print off to give out at meetings. [continue...]

Cutting our way to defeat?

There is now a consensus among the three main parties that there needs to be drastic cuts in public expenditure. We do not agree. The crisis was not caused by public expenditure but by the failure of private markets and an excess of private debt.  [continue...]

Five steps to the return of Labour - Jeremy Corbyn

The latest crop of opinion polls make grim reading for Labour. Cameron’s Tories are now getting consistently over 40 per cent. The Conservative leaders’s message of tough cuts is clearly resonating well with the coalition of meanness that propelled Thatcher to office 30 years ago. [continue...]

RMT Eurostar Cleaners fight for justice

There is an important fight for justice and respect being waged by RMT members working for the Carlisle Group cleaning the Eurostar trains at St Pancras International. [continue...]

Labour MP calls for full public inquiry into Construction Industry

The OFT has today fined 103 construction companies for rigging bids for contracts. This follows the scandal of construction companies abusing its workforce through blacklisting practices, and increasing concerns about the practices of gangmasters in the industry and health and safety standards. [continue...]

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