Over the last week the employers have upped the ante against Unite in the ongoing dispute involving catering workers employed at Drax by Baxter-Storey. Iain Dalton, Leeds Socialist Party Whilst Baxter-Storey are still supposed to be negotiating voluntary recognition of Unite, Drax have banned the workers Unite Regional Officer from site as well as banning…
Simone Buitendijk has resigned as vice-chancellor of the University of Leeds, following motions of ‘no confidence’ from all three unions on campus, Unison, Unite, and University and College Union (UCU). Since taking the role in 2020, she has overseen the largest concerted strike action at the university in memory. As part of the national strike…
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…
Around 800 drivers for First Bus across the Leeds depots in Hunslet and Bramley commenced indefinite strike action on Sunday 18th June. Iain Dalton, Leeds Socialist Party First have made over £200m in profit in 2022 yet they want to delay paying their drivers in Leeds a pay rise. During the disruption to the bus…
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…
Construction workers in Unite and GMB returned to Skelton Grange in south Leeds on Thursday 5th May where Hitachi Zosen Inova (HZI) are building a new energy to waste plant but refusing to pay workers along the lines of the National Agreement for the Engineering Construction Industry (NAECI). Iain Dalton, Leeds Socialist Party Whilst HZI…
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…
Around 50 trade union activists gathered for a rally on Woodhouse Moor on Friday 15th October for a protest organised by Unite the Union against fire and rehire and in support of a forthcoming bill being moved in parliament to ban the practice. Iain Dalton, Leeds Socialist Party It’s welcome that rather than leave this…
Socialist Party members joined Unite taxi & private hire drivers, disabled taxi users and Unite Community activists in a protest outside Leeds Civic Hall in opposition to plans by the council and Network Rail to move the taxi rank outside the station as part of redevelopment plans. Iain Dalton, Leeds Socialist Party As Wasim, one…
Unite members at Optare in Yorkshire returned to the picket lines on 16 November for the first day of their now escalated four-days-a-week strike at the bus manufacturers. Iain Dalton, Leeds Socialist Party Threats from the police to fine strikers if they continued to picket, citing the new Covid restrictions, had prevented picketing, until the…
