20 July 2011

Immigration Advice closure shows need for industrial struggle

One year after the closure of Refugee Migrant Justice (RMJ) in June 2010, the other main UK provider of free legal advice and representation to asylum seekers and migrant workers has now also been shut down, writes Eric Segal, former RMJ Unite rep.

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29 September 2010

Workplace news in brief

Migrant workers protest: The chant of "hands off our workmates, no one is illegal!" echoed outside the London office of contract cleaning company Initial Rentokil on Saturday 25 September, writes Neil Cafferky, London Socialist Party.

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27 September 2010

London: Defending migrant workers' rights

"Hands off our workmates, no one is illegal!" echoed outside contract cleaning company Initial Rentokil, writes Neil Cafferky, London Socialist Party.

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14 September 2006

Organising migrant workers

THE URGENT need to organise migrant workers was one of the themes of the Burston rally on 3 September. It was also a celebration of 100 years of the agricultural workers' union, now part of the TGWU...

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13 July 2006

How the farmworkers got organised

1834, 1906, 2006: EVERY YEAR thousands of trade unionists journey to Tolpuddle in Dorset, to celebrate the brave and pioneering work of six agricultural workers who were sentenced to seven years transportation in 1834 for trying to form a union...

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8 June 2006

Unity needed to fight exploitation

Migrant workers: IN THE first part of an occasional series on asylum and immigration, KEVIN PARSLOW calls for the trade union movement to help migrant workers get organised and fight for their rights...

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1 December 2005

Exploited workers in Middle East fight back

Qatar: MIGRANT WORKERS in the Middle East, including CWI members, are fighting against their slave-like conditions and the non-payment of their salaries...

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2 June 2005

Labour court awards Gama workers €8,000

THE IRISH Labour Court has awarded Gama workers €8,000 per annum for unpaid overtime - a stunning admission of how this construction multinational ripped off its workforce...

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12 February 2005

Immigration policy: Labour apes the Tories - again

NEW LABOUR and the Tories are at war, each fighting to prove that they are the "toughest" party on migration to the UK...

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28 February 2004

EU Enlargement Brings Benefits For The Bosses

THE NEW Labour government says it will be 'regulating' the number of migrant workers who are allowed to come to Britain from the ten countries, mainly in Eastern Europe, which will be joining the European Union on 1 May...

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