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Workplace and TU campaigns / Corus
23 November 2011
Construction workers fight pay cuts
The pressure is growing on the 'Big 7' construction companies who want to withdraw from the Joint Industry Board agreement and impose the new BESNA contracts which will cut workers' pay by up to 35%...
22 November 2011
Siteworker leaflet: Balfour Beatty (BBES) ballot - The Truth - Why you should vote for the strike
The pressure is building on the 'Big 7'
construction companies who want to
withdraw from the JIB agreement and impose
the new BESNA contracts which will cut pay
by up to 35%. Electricians all over the country
are fighting back. Last week saw walkouts
and stoppages at many sites, including
Corus on Teesside, Ratcliffe and West Burton
power stations, Saltend and Farringdon in
London.
Rob Williams, chair, National Shop Stewards Network, addresses the Construction workers, electricians, demonstration 9 November 2011, photo Neil Cafferky
16 November 2011
Emboldened by the construction electricians' protest in London on 10 November, around 200 sparks turned up at Corus Steel on Teesside on 14 November, writes Elaine Brunskill.
Corus steel workers on the Unite jobs demonstration in Birmingham, photo Paul Mattsson
22 September 2010
The recent sale by Corus of the steel plant on Teesside to the Thai company SSI is welcome news but in reality the situation should never have got to this stage, writes A socialist steel worker.
15 September 2010
Middlesborough local union-led public services alliance set up
IN MIDDLESBROUGH over one-third of jobs are in the public sector following the loss of heavy industries...
9 September 2010
Les Bayliss, right-wing candidate for Unite general secretary, is claiming in an email circular that the sale of Corus' Teesside plant to the Thai steel maker SSI is proof that quiet lobbying by union officials, not militant trade unionism, is the way to protect jobs in manufacturing, writes Socialist members of Unite.
4 August 2010
Rich just carry on getting richer
MAJOR SHAREHOLDERS in HSBC will look forward to big dividends as Britain's biggest bank saw its profits almost double to £7.2 billion over the six months up to June...
28 April 2010
National Shop Stewards Network Conference: The NSSN 2010 conference is on Saturday 26 June at the South Camden Community School, Charrington Street, London NW1 1RG...
24 February 2010
Anger on Teesside over Corus closure
AS THE process of shutting down the blast furnace at Teesside's Corus steel plant began, hundreds of steelworkers, their families and people from the local community turned out, writes Elaine Brunskill.
13 January 2010
There is a heavy cloud hanging over Teesside but it has nothing to do with the worst snow for fifty years, writes Ed Hamilton, Teeside Socialist Party.
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