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Wednesday, November 15, 2006. National Shop Stewards Network. A national meeting called by the RMT attended by 250 union reps has agreed to launch a 'National Shop Stewards Network'. At a national meeting organised by the RMT and supported by major unions including the TGWU, PCS, FBU, UCU and NUJ, it was decided to organise a delegate conference next year to launch a ‘National Shop Stewards Network’. A steering committee of 10 people was elected to organise it. Barry Camfield for the TGWU said:. The titl...
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Martin Wicks: June 2007
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Thursday, June 14, 2007. I have moved sites. I have moved to http:/ martinwicks.wordpress.com. Posted by Martin Wicks. Thursday, June 14, 2007. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). View my complete profile. I have moved sites. Swindon TUC News site. Keep Our NHS Public. Solidarity Magazine News Site.
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Martin Wicks: November 2006
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Wednesday, November 15, 2006. National Shop Stewards Network. A national meeting called by the RMT attended by 250 union reps has agreed to launch a 'National Shop Stewards Network'. At a national meeting organised by the RMT and supported by major unions including the TGWU, PCS, FBU, UCU and NUJ, it was decided to organise a delegate conference next year to launch a ‘National Shop Stewards Network’. A steering committee of 10 people was elected to organise it. Barry Camfield for the TGWU said:. The titl...
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Martin Wicks: February 2007
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Monday, February 19, 2007. Living in the Ghetto? I did not realise it but I live in a ghetto. Will Hutton, that doyen of the English middle class ‘progressive’ liberals says so. It must be true. Even worse I inhabit a ‘living tomb’. 8220;The truth is that council housing is a living tomb. You dare not give up the house because you might never get another, but staying is to be trapped in a ghetto of both place and mind.”. Hutton wants me and other tenants to be freed from a ‘living tomb’. ...There is noth...
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Martin Wicks
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Monday, February 19, 2007. Living in the Ghetto? I did not realise it but I live in a ghetto. Will Hutton, that doyen of the English middle class ‘progressive’ liberals says so. It must be true. Even worse I inhabit a ‘living tomb’. 8220;The truth is that council housing is a living tomb. You dare not give up the house because you might never get another, but staying is to be trapped in a ghetto of both place and mind.”. Hutton wants me and other tenants to be freed from a ‘living tomb’. ...There is noth...
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Martin Wicks: January 2007
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Wednesday, January 17, 2007. Blair’s government declares: the right to strike is not a ‘fundamental social right’! Also currently before the court is a case brought by Finnish company Viking Line against the International Transport Workers Federation. The case related to the. This would have disastrous implications for trades unions, effectively opening the way to using migrant labour at the rate for the home rather than the host country. This issue was a major source of dispute in the EU Services Di...
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Swindon Trades Union Council: January 2007
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Swindon Trades Union Council. Friday, January 26, 2007. Civil servants say yes to national civil service strike. Members of the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) have overwhelmingly voted for ongoing national industrial action across the civil service as the government continue to fail to give assurances on job security, drive down pay and pursue a dogmatic policy of outsourcing and privatisation. Posted by Martin Wicks @ 14:39. Saturday, January 06, 2007. National conference for NHS campaigners.
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Swindon Trades Union Council: October 2006
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Swindon Trades Union Council. Monday, October 16, 2006. Campaigning against thegovernment’s privatisation agenda. A Swindon TUC Open Meeting. Swindon Trades Union Council - Media Release October 12th 2006. Broadgreen Centre, Salisbury Rd (off of Manchester Rd). It’s policy in the health service has been to create a ‘market’ in healthcare. It’s a rigged ‘market’ though because the government has instructed PCT’s to hand over work to the private sector, with no competition, taking money away from the N...
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Martin Wicks: June 2006
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Tuesday, June 20, 2006. Michael Wills is worried…. 8220;Unless we can get people to start listening to us, unless they are prepared to hear the message we are putting across, we are going to lose next time. There is no question of that.”. There are none so blind as cannot see. There are none so deaf as those who refuse to listen! That they are privatising council departments? That they are not opposing Bath University’s ultimatum on the location on which it wants to build a campus? Well might Private Eye...
