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Report on the picket of Lionbridge in Dublin
Date: Mon, 2008-07-07 12:46
Anarchists, trade unionists and social justice activists placed a placed a lunchtime picket on the offices of Lionbride in Dun Laoghaire on Friday the 4th of July as part of an International Week of Solidarity with Jakub G, a longstanding Polish Lionbridge employe who was fired for encouraging fellow workers to join a union to protect their pay and conditions in Lionbridge's Warsaw office.
Lionbridge sack worker for joining a union in Poland
Date: Mon, 2008-07-07 11:35
Lionbridge, is a USA based multinational company that provides translation, and software development services. They have operations in over 26 countries, including Ireland, and everywhere they are hostile to decent pay and trade union rights. Today there are protests outside their offices all over the world.
Starbucks Fires Staff For Joining Unions
Date: Mon, 2008-07-07 11:29
In the USA they sacked a barista active in the IWW Starbucks Workers Union as part of it’s ongoing offensive against employees pushing for a better wage and regular working hours. Cole Dorsey was fired after two years of service, while he was coordinating a union recruitment drive at Starbucks stores in Grand Rapids. In Spain, a barista, Monica, was fired in April from a Starbucks in Seville for her activity on behalf of her union, the National Confederation of Workers (CNT-AIT).
HSE Board have an interest in running down health service
Date: Mon, 2008-07-07 01:03
It’s not incompetence, it's sabotage - Would you put people with a financial interest in running down the public health service in charge of our hospitals?
That's Capitalism WS 104
Date: Mon, 2008-07-07 01:00
The Health Services Executive in Cork is spending nearly four times as much giving work that used to be done by a HSE employee to private profiteers. A worker in the Environmental Health Unit (which deals with everything from transport to pest control) used to get a maximum of €700 a week until he retired this year. Now the same work is being given to a private firm, who charge €2,625 a week.
Raytheon 9 acquitted in Derry trial
Date: Mon, 2008-07-07 00:16
It was a victory for people applying common sense and cutting through capitalist bullshit. What the prosecution had feared most was the jury acquitting the 9 because they believed them when they said that they had sabotaged Raytheon's computers in order to disrupt the company's activities. These activities are supplying the world's most lethal weapons of mass destruction to the world's most human rights abusing regimes.
The triumph of greed over need
Date: Mon, 2008-07-07 00:09
The construction industry and the property market have well and truly collapsed. House prices have already fallen by about 20% since 2006 and the fall is set to continue for some years still.
Scrap the 11+ in Northern Ireland
Date: Sun, 2008-07-06 23:51
The ongoing debate about how school pupils should transfer from primary to post-primary school in Northern Ireland raises fundamental questions about the type of society we want to live in.
Time for profit restraint
Date: Sun, 2008-07-06 23:44
Working people in the Irish Republic have been hearing a lot from the representatives of their exploiters lately about the need for us to exercise ‘pay restraint’ and to ‘moderate our demands’ in these difficult times.
Global Day of Action Against Starbucks - Belfast Picket
Date: Sat, 2008-07-05 17:29
Organise! and the Belfast branch of the Workers Solidarity Movement and supporters picketed Starbucks in Belfast city centre today from 12 to 1 pm.