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Keep the Post Public
Privatisation of the post office makes no sense at all – private companies will no doubt skim off the profitable parts (like city to city mail and bulk mail), and the Royal Mail will be left to struggle with those bits that will never make money – support the CWU’s campaign!
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You know what its like – you drive your company to into the ground, make a loss of £28bn, ask the tax-payers to bail you out to the tune of £20bn, and all you get in return is a £693k a year pension from the age of 50…
There has been much outrage (and on-line action) [...]

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Amnesty International is one of the best loved organisations in Britain, regardless of whether you grew up with the Secret Policeman’s Balls (which in the late 1970s were the adult equivalent of early 1970s playground recitations of Monty Python sketches – only with the original cast on the stage leading the chorus!) Everyone knows they help people [...]

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At the weekend i attended the first ever festival of learning and organising. The festival was a celebration of the achievements of the learning agenda as a major factor in the organisation of the justice for cleaner’s campaign (J4C). There were over 70 activists from the campaign which had organised, educated and won the living [...]

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I saw the headline “Nestlé Hong Kong: Strike action wins dramatic step-down from management” on the IUF website today and thought I would look a little deeper. It seems that the Hong Kong Nestlé workers took strike action at 6.30 am last Saturday morning to force the reinstatement of their suspended union president. Within five [...]

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The Irish Times reports that 100,000 people have gathered in Dublin today at a demonstration organised by the Irish Congress of Trade Unions (ICTU) to protest at the Government’s handling of the recession. Almost alone among EU Governments, Fianna Fail have opted to make cuts in spending – especially public sector pensions, and unions are [...]

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The North West TUC has launched a campaign for agency workers to be treated fairly.
The campaign wants to see agency workers receive fair pay and conditions. Many are paid far less than permanent staff for exactly the same work. Terms and conditions can also be far inferior.
Both sides of industry, the Government and Europe agree [...]

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Places remain available on the TUC Activist Academy weekend school which will take place at Ruskin college, Oxford over the weekend of February 28/March 1st.  The course is free and the TUC will pay travel and accomodation costs. 
More info incl. details of how to apply here.

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The TUC is pleased to announce the following new dates for Activist Academy courses;

LIVERPOOL at Wirral Met College
March 11 & 12, April 1 & 2, April 29 & 30
Contact Bob Kelly on 0151 237 2751 or at bob.kelly@wmc.ac.uk

BRIDGEND at Bridgend College
April 29 & 30, June 3 & 4, July 1 & 2
Contact Richard Young on [...]

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Just a ‘heads-up’ on a Unions21 conference taking place tomorrow, Tuesday 17th February, at the NASUWT’s Greater London Regional office in EC1. The conference will be discussing the use of the internet and similar media in the successful Obama campaign last year and what lessons unions here could learn from it. TUC’s own web guru [...]

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