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Anger at Leeds’ Labour council as workers lobby to defend jobs and conditions

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…

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Leeds City Council aids undermining NAECI construction agreement as Skelton Grange HZI Energy to Waste plant

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…

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Unite Taxi Drivers Continue Fight Against Station Taxi Rank Changes

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…

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