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Cleaners at luxury car dealer protest suspensions after strike vote

Submitted by RosalindR on Oct 1 2017 19:52

Cleaners at the London Ferrari showroom in London's richest borough were suspended without pay this week after voting for strike action. Their union, United Voices of the World, are now preparing to take HR Owen luxury cars and Templewood cleaning agency to court for trade union victimisation.

The popular movement and the electoral strategy. An indigenous candidate for Mexico

Submitted by Alessandro Zagato on Sep 29 2017 03:36
María de Jesus Patricio

Alessandro Zagato looks at the strategy change of the EZLN, running an electoral candidate for the first time for the 2018 presidential elections.

Lettings agency makes threats and keeps deposit of tenant with young children: Brighton SolFed opens dispute

Submitted by Ed on Sep 28 2017 09:18

Hot on the heels of their recent victory against MTM lettings, Brighton Solidarity Federation are opening a dispute with Spencer & Leigh lettings agency after they withheld £510 from a tenant with young children.

Solidarity strikers accuse bosses of blacklisting in Bologna

Submitted by Ed on Sep 27 2017 16:18
Riot police block locked out warehouse workers in Bologna last week.

After days of being locked out of their warehouse for showing solidarity with colleagues on strike in Carpiano, workers at SDA Bologna are being allowed back in based on a list, which the union says is targeting their members.

The Deliveroo riders' movement in France

Submitted by Johanna Schellhagen on Sep 27 2017 06:29
deliveroo rider Paris

Steven, a member of the CLAP, a collective of independant riders in Paris, is speaking at the Summer University of the NPA (Nouveau Parti Anticapitaliste) in August 2017.

Workers stabbed and hit by car as pro-boss mob attacks picket

Submitted by Ed on Sep 26 2017 09:25
Picket outside the Carpiano SDA warehouse.

One worker was stabbed and another hit by a car as a group of striking workers outside an SDA warehouse in Carpiano, near Milan, was ambushed last night by a group of over 100 attackers armed with knives and metal bars.

Union suspends bin strike again

Submitted by QQ on Sep 25 2017 23:05

Unite union have suspended the bin strike again, after a court granted an interim injunction against the Birmingham council.

Flooding the cradle of civilisation: A 12,000 year old town in Kurdistan battles for survival

Submitted by Shoal Collective on Sep 23 2017 10:56

It’s one of the oldest continually inhabited places on earth, but a new dam has put Hasankeyf under threat, write Eliza Egret and Tom Anderson.

Warehouse strikes across Italy as management tear up workers’ rights

Submitted by Ed on Sep 22 2017 10:41

Solidarity strikes have broken out at warehouses across Italy, with workers blocking entrance gates in some places, after an outsourcing company has attempted to attack the hard-won rights of workers at a warehouse on the outskirts of Milan.

Uber drivers in Kenya on indefinite strike

Submitted by Mike Harman on Sep 21 2017 18:55
Drivers on strike

Drivers for Uber, Taxify, Little and Mondo-Ride have been on indefinite strike since 11th September over working conditions and high commission rates.