(Leaflet for the general strike of May 6)
(CWO Introduction. We have been asked by some English-speaking readers of our site to translate the following leaflet from our…
Whose future is it? Looking around at how workers (whether permanent, casual, temporary) are living the response isn’t encouraging. Wages and earnings have been falling for years. This is so…
On January 23 2009 the CWO held its first public meeting in Manchester for some years as a result of requests from local readers. The text which follows was given as the introduction to the…
(Talk from a Manchester meeting, 23 January 2010)
== Introduction
The title of this meeting is “Unions - Whose Side Are They On?” If you were to ask that question to…
== Déjà vu
On the night of 4-5 November the leadership of the Communication Workers Union (CWU) carried out their own plot to blow up the workers’ resistance to the one of the most…
Saturday 16 May in the workers’ demonstrations for jobs and the future of FIAT workers the anger of the Pomigliano and Nola workers exploded. The latter after a hard struggle ignored by the media…
Nationalism and the Unions
In the aftermath of the Lindsey oil refinery strike, the Unite General Secretary (for the ex-Amicus bit), Derek Simpson was pictured (between two…
(Image - South Central Federation of Labor (AFL-CIO) President Jim Kavanaugh speaking October 2 at the Wisconsin State Capitol building - “Gingerbelle” and “Sweet Lorraine” referred to on the…