On the back of action spreading in recent weeks from Heckmondwike, to Morley and Birstall, then delivery drivers at the Elland Road McDonalds in Beeston on Froday night joined the ongoing strikes in the shadow of the famous football ground. Iain Dalton, Leeds Socialist Party Like drivers in those towns, who have also been picketing…
On Thursday 24th March, drivers in both Morley and Birstall joined the ongoing strikes by gig economy food delivery drivers, which started last year by drivers in Sheffield taking action against major partners of JustEat/Stuart who cut their base rates of pay for drivers last year. Iain Dalton, Leeds Socialist Party Socialist Party members from…
Not one, but two groups of workers held lobbies of Leeds City Council at its March meeting on 23rd March. Iain Dalton, Leeds Socialist Party Unite and GMB members gathered to lobby councillors and hand in a petition against the energy-to-waste facility being constructed by Hitachi Zosen Inova outside the National Agreement for the Engineering…
RMT members held a day of leafletting outside major rail stations including Leeds over the latest round of fare hikes of 3.8% at a time many rail services are facing huge cuts. As the leaflets were headlined, rail users are paying #Moreforless. Iain Dalton, Leeds Socialist Party Socialist Party members joined the action in Leeds….
Around 100 angry construction workers and their supporters marched on the Hitachi Zosen Inova site at Skelton Grange in South Leeds where a new energy to waste plant is being built with work being done outside the NAECI national construction agreement terms. Iain Dalton, Leeds Socialist Party GMB and Unite unions organised the march with…
UCU members were back out on the picket lines at University of Leeds in their long running dispute over attacks on their pension scheme. Iain Dalton, Leeds Socialist Party Despite the inclement weather, it was reported that a number of first time picketers took part in this first day of ten days of strikes over…
Leeds Labour council is preparing to pass on another round of Tory austerity. The Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition (TUSC) held its People’s Budget meeting to discuss how trade unionists and community campaigners could fight this and other attacks. The meeting included local campaigners, and a rep delegated from their branch of civil service union…
To the chanting of ‘Down, down, Al-Burhan’, over 100 people from Leeds’ Sudanese community rallied on Saturday 13th November in support of the mass protests taking place the same day in Sudan. Iain Dalton, Leeds Socialist Party The protest condemned the military coup led by Al-Burhan, right hand man of the former dictator, Al-Bashir, whose…
Over 50 taxi drivers and supporters protested in Leeds on Wednesday 10th November against proposals by network Rail and West Yorkshire combined authority to relocate the hackney carriage taxi rank to a space beneath the station. Kevin Pattison (Chair, Leeds & Wakefield Unite Community) This is the 3rd protest which was again supported by Leeds and Wakefield…
A couple of thousand of people joined the COP26 demonstration in Leeds on 6th November to coincide with the major protest outside the conference in Glasgow, after a week in which the incapability of the capitalist powers around the globe to act to tackle the looming threat of climate change has become ever clearer, many…
