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9 May 2012
Privatisation pushes up transport costs in Yorkshire
7% and 8%. That's how much bus and train fares went up in West Yorkshire this January, following above inflation increases of 6% at the beginning of 2011 on trains and increases of up to 20% on buses...
21 March 2012
Smear campaign on Hillsborough?
Football rivalry is common in Liverpool between Liverpool and Everton supporters, writes John Cosgrove.
7 March 2012
Socialist Party International Women's Day schools
Hampshire: Socialist Students national organiser Claire Laker-Mansfield explained the origins of women's oppression and then examined how women are being disproportionately affected by the cuts today, writes Jane Ward, Hampshire Socialist Women.
3 March 2012
Stagecoach bus drivers win victory
Stagecoach South Yorkshire bus drivers in Barnsley and Rotherham have won a significant victory in their fight for higher pay
1 March 2012
Stop prison guards housing asylum seekers - stop G4S!
"I don't want a prison guard as my landlord" said a Zimbabwean asylum seeker on a protest demonstration today
8 February 2012
Stagecoach South Yorkshire - management getting desperate
It was -15C. Bus drivers started picketing in Rotherham at 4.30am, on their 11th strike day
25 January 2012
Pontefract hospital: Army withdrawn - now kick out PFI!
At Pontefract hospital in West Yorkshire NHS bosses had been in discussion about using army medics to help run the accident and emergency unit, writes Adrian O'Malley, Unison Mid Yorkshire Health branch secretary (personal capacity).
16 January 2012
South Yorkshire Stagecoach bus drivers take eighth day of strike action
Stagecoach bus drivers in Barnsley and Rotherham, members of the Unite trade union, took their eight day of strike action on Monday 16th January in pursuit of their pay claim for £9.50 an hour...
8 December 2011
South Yorkshire Stagecoach bus drivers' strike
Stagecoach South Yorkshire bus drivers, members of the Unite trade union, took two more days of strike action on 2 and 3 December in pursuit of their claim for £9/hour pay parity with their Sheffield colleagues...
23 November 2011
South Yorkshire Fire Authority is planning to close four fire stations, take three engines out of service and cut 140 firefighters' jobs (20% of the workforce) by introducing four consecutive 24 hour shifts...
23 November 2011
South Yorkshire bus drivers, members of Unite the union, took strike action on 18 and 21 November. Many pickets were out all day on both days at the Barnsley and Rawmarsh (Rotherham) depots, writes Alistair Tice.
8 October 2011
1,000 march in Yorkshire in support of Jarrow march
Flying in the face of some misleading newspaper reports, 1,000 people have marched in Yorkshire in support of the Jarrow march
8 September 2011
Striking journalists suspend action for talks
NUJ members at South Yorkshire Newspapers have returned to work after 55 days on strike
30 August 2011
South Yorkshire Newspapers strike now in seventh week
Striking journalists travelled to London on 25 August to present a 3,000 signature petition to the CEO of parent company Johnston Press
10 August 2011
Demonstration in support of four-week south Yorkshire NUJ strike
Chants of "No more Murdochs, support the strike" rang through Doncaster as protesters demonstrated their support for striking journalists
1 August 2011
National Union of Journalists members in Doncaster, Selby and Mexborough are now in the third week of indefinite strike action
20 July 2011
South Yorkshire journalists start all-out strike
Twenty NUJ journalists at South Yorkshire Newspapers have marched out on a unanimous, indefinite strike over greedy owners Johnston Press's latest efforts to hack their jobs
13 July 2011
South Yorkshire journalists on indefinite strike from Friday
The South Yorkshire National Union of Journalists (NUJ) newspapers chapel voted unanimously for an all-out indefinite strike from Friday 15 July...
15 June 2011
Arriving in Dewsbury on the day of an English Defence League (EDL) march, I was immediately met with an incredibly tense atmosphere
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