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Inflation, rising prices and the 2% pay ceiling

Joseph K. — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 09:43:10 +0000

If the government were to announce that it was cutting the wages of all workers - public and private sector - there would presumably be uproar. And yet this is exactly what they have done by calling for ‘pay restraint’ and insisting all wage rises are capped at 2%. Make no mistake, a sub-inflation pay ‘rise’ is a pay cut. No amount of statistical trickery changes this simple fact.

Tea Break July 2008

Jack — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 20:15:00 +0000

A brief account of Unison's national conference, 2008

Ed — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 19:55:42 +0000

I recently attended Unison's national delegate conference in Bournemouth as a delegate from a London local government branch. It was an eye opening experience with respect to the machinations of political groupings within the union.

In particular some of the ways in which the new Labour-linked bureaucracy maintained control over the supposedly lay lead organisation became clear.

April 24 – hundreds of thousands to walk out

Steven. — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 23:35:14 +0000

Employer attacks on workers' pay is the main issue at stake.

Teachers in the NUT are walking out over their pay deal which was supposed to be revised when inflation rose, but the government refused: effectively cutting their wages.

Libcom posters

Ed — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 12:24:46 +0000

Agency staff: Don't scab on your fellow workers! - Pracownicy agencji: Nie bądźcie łamistrajkami!

Joseph K. — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 15:13:27 +0000

12/10/07 - Reports suggest that the Manpower agency is recruiting casuals during this strike, you may want to print out this pdf and distribute it at your local Manpower branch, or any other agency hiring for Royal Mail.

Notes on working at a sixth form college library, London 2005-2007

catch — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 11:35:46 +0000

So where did you work? What was it like?
Since some of my friends are still working there, and I hope there is still some organising going on, I won't identify the college directly, but some background information would be useful.

Dispatch: Public sector pay dispute, # 1 August 2007

Joseph K. — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 09:01:40 +0000

Available here in TIF and here in PDF format. The text follows:

Dispatch

Public sector pay dispute — information for action

Issue 1 - August 2007

Royal Mail workers: Fighting to win

Doing the job as it’s meant to be done

Interview with a member of libcom.org, 2007

Steven. — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 15:11:59 +0000

Libcom.org is a constantly expanding online resource that seeks to promote working class self-organisation through publishing news, theoretical texts and historical articles. Site traffic has risen from 25-35,000 visits per month in 2005 to 110-170,000 now and there are now 2,600 active users.

Libcom's Eye-Spy at the Anarchist Bookfair

Ed — Tue, 22 May 2007 00:58:53 +0000

1pt
A hippie
A nutter
A punk, British
A group of punks drinking, British
An SWP member coming to check out genuine socialism
An anarchist who used to be in the SWP
An old man with a beard. Possibly old enough to lead you to ponder whether or not he fought in Spain…

2pts