Following five consecutive Friday strikes, Unite members at Sulzer Pumps are escalating the action. Monday 3rd July was the first Monday strike which will continue, but they also plan to go out for the entire week from Monday 17th July. Iain Dalton, Leeds Socialist Party The company has refused to re-open negotiations confined only to…
Historic action began at University of Leeds on Thursday 15th June with UCU escalating their action to an indefinite strike action following the implementation of 100% pay deductions from university management for staff taking part in the marking and assesment boycott, whilst Unison won a second reballot for the first time and began a programme…
Over 50 pickets outside Leeds City College marked the latest group of workers to join the strike wave as UCU members at the college took strike action for the first time in many years. Iain Dalton, Leeds Socialist Party The strikes on Monday 5th and Wednesday 7th June were co-ordinated with strikes at three other…
Unite members at Sulzer pumps were out in force for the first of a series Friday strikes until 7th July called in their dispute over pay with the company. Making high performance pumps, including for oil rigs, the Leeds site alone was projected to bring in over £20m in profit this year. Iain Dalton, Leeds…
Across Leeds, nurses and ambulance workers were both taking part in strike action on International Workers Day, following their rejection of the government’s well before invitation 5% pay offer. Iain Dalton, Leeds Socialist Party Turnout on the RCN picket line at St James’s Hospital was much higher than during the last round of strike action….
With shopkeepers coming out to watch and other bystanders filming, the Save Batley Baths demonstration on 4th March was a success in continuing the pressure on Kirklees Active Leisure (KAL) to re-open the Baths. Iain Dalton, Socialist Party Yorkshire secretary The baths has remained closed since December when KAL decided to shut it, Deighton Sports…
Socialist Party members in West Yorkshire visited Unison picket lines at Wakefield Ambulance station, Richmond Hill Ambulance station in Leeds and Yorkshire Ambulance Service headquarters as they took their second round of 12 hour strike action on 23rd January. Iain Dalton, Socialist Party Yorkshire secretary Across the picket lines we visited there was a growing…
In the largest action taken by Delivery drivers in one city yet, drivers working for Deliveroo, Stuart/JustEat and UberEats took strike action from 5pm Friday 21st October til midnight Sunday 23rd October. Iain Dalton, Leeds Socialist Party Over twenty picket lines were mounted across Leeds, with reports of 11 KFC’s, 9 McDonalds, 2 Burger Kings,a…
Criminal barristers, who have been struck by withdrawing from defence case work on legal aid on various days since June, have now escalated to taking indefinite action. Iain Dalton, Leeds Socialist Party The Criminal Bar Association held a series of rallies outside courts around the country. Around 20-30 barristers attended the rally in Leeds. As…
Socialist Party members visited half a dozen picket lines across Leeds as CWU members at Royal Mail began strike action on Friday 26th August. Iain Dalton reported that at both the Leeds Mail Centre and Hunslet delivery office pickets pointed out the hypocrisy of Royal Mail management in claiming to have no money but then…
