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Steel workers in a factory in Greece have been out on strike for nearly 3 months over their hours being cut from 8 hours a day to 5 hours, with a 40% pay cut, in a move which looks set to be copied by all Greek industrialists if they get away with it. Thanks to the excellent German website, Labournet.tv for this film.
123 Wincanton fuel tanker drivers, working on a Conoco Phillips contract, are on strike for 14 consecutive days. The Texas based oil giant wants to drive down their pensions, terms and conditions, and are demanding a 20% pay cut despite making profits of $3.4 billion. Visit their picket lines at Immingham, Tamworth and Stockton-on-Tees; for updates, go to www.unitetheunion.org/
1. Sparks 1: Kings X (Reel News) 11:45
In the battle to stop a 35% pay cut and the tearing up of national agreements, sparks block roads and occupy Kings Cross station. ***PLAY***
2. Liverpool: Fighting gentrification (Reel News) 10:04
The residents of Granby, Toxteth have come up with a novel way to stop their homes being sold off.
3. Sparks 2: London protests increase, power station walk out (Reel News) 12:50
Sparks walk out on unofficial strike at Ratcliffe-on-Soar power station, while the London protests get more militant. ***PLAY***
4. Sparks 3: Rank and File Sparks & Occupy LSX unite (Reel News) 9:44
The two most significant movements in the country unite to shut down a Balfour Beatty site. ***PLAY***
5. FOSBR: Unite the City! (Reel News) 6:20
Having won extra funding for Bristol railways, FOSBR are now campaigning to improve the service even more. ***PLAY***
6. Sparks 4: National Day of Action (Reel News) 12:29
Mass pickets, direct action and occupations as the sparks run the police ragged all over London. ***PLAY***
7. November 30 (Reel News) 8:00
Millions of workers take action over pensions in the largest UK strike for 85 years.
8. Sparks 5: UK wide unofficial strike (Reel News) 10:00
Who needs a ballot? Sparks defy the law to pull off the most important unofficial strike in decades. ***PLAY***
9. Argentinazo: Comienza la Revolucion (Ojo Obrero) 16:36
To mark the 10th anniversary of the Argentinian uprising when the economy and the banks collapsed, this brilliant film of the events of 19/20 December 2001 – rarely seen in this country.
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Reel News and Blacklist Support Group present: Blacklisted 2012 Multinational construction companies have been illegally blacklisting trade unionists in the UK building industry for years using the Consulting Association blacklist – the successor to the notorious Economic League with allegations about involvement by M.I.5, Special Branch and the UK security services
The good guys: Ricky Tomlinson, Des Warren, John Hendy QC, Professor Keith Ewing, Gail Cartmail, Glenis Willmott MEP, Stephen Hughes MEP, Jim Lafferty, Steve Hedley, Steve Acheson, Steve Kelly, Brian Higgins, Mick Dooley, Terry Renshaw, Jill Warren, Kath Warren, Colin Trousdale, Tony Jones, Darren O’Grady, George Fuller, Tony O’Brien, Mick Abbott, Frank Morris, Graham Bowker, Ray Morris, Jim Grey, Mick Holder, Roy Bentham, Kev Homes, Dave Smith, Unite the Union, UCATT, RMT
The bad guys: Consulting Association, Economic League, Ian Kerr, Carillion, Tarmac Construction, John Mowlem Ltd, Amec, Amey, Balfour Beatty, Balfour Kilpatrick, Haden Young, Kier Ltd, Laing O’Rourke, Bam Construction (HBC Construction), Bam Nuttall (Edmund Nutall Ltd), Costain UK Ltd, Crown House Technologies, Emcor (Drake & Scull), GLovell Construction (UK) Ltd, Miller Construction Limited, Morgan Est, Morrison Construction Group, N G Bailey, Shepherd Engineering Services, Sias Building Services, Sir Robert McAlpine Ltd, Skanska (Kaverna / Trafalgar House Plc), SPIE (Matthew Hall), Taylor Woodrow Construction Ltd, Willmott Dixon, Vinci PLC (Norwest Holst Group), C B & I, Cleveland Bridge UK Ltd
The video covers the Shrewsbury Pickets, Rank & File Sparks, Jubilee Line, Pfizers, Olympics, Fiddlers Ferry, Construction Safety Campaign, Joint Sites Committee. This brand new version updated for 2012 shows those recent struggles, Employment Tribunals, Human Rights, demonstrations and direct action, to the most powerful challenge of all – the rank and file electricians’ action.
Soundtrack by Alabama 3 and The Redskins
s those recent struggles, from legal challenges and victories to demonstrations and direct action, to the most powerful challenge of all – the rank and file electricians’ action.
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After 81% of Balfour Beatty electricians vote to strike against a 35% pay cut and national agreements being torn up, the company threaten a court injunction and UNITE call off the strike – but it makes no difference. Rank and file sparks break every anti-trade union law in the book and pull off a brilliant unofficial strike across the UK. Here’s all the action from London. For more info, email siteworkers@virginmedia.com
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Having won extra funding for Bristol railways, FOSBR are
now campaigning to improve the service even more.
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In the continued battle over a 35% pay cut and the tearing up of the national agreement, rank and file sparks battle through police lines to hold pickets at 5 building sites, visit the occupation at St. Pauls, occupy Cannon St. station themselves and almost join the student demo before being stopped by huge numbers of police…or were they?? Email jointsitescommittee@gmail.com to keep up with the most important industrial dispute for years.
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The police murder an innocent man, then let Tottenham burn. The real story, told by local people who were there.
1. Rebellion in Tottenham 2011 (Reel News) 26:23
The police murdered an innocent man, then let Tottenham burn. The real story, told by local people who were there. ***PLAY***
2. Emory Douglas on Tottenham (Reel News) 7.11
The great revolutionary artist of the Black Panther Party in the 60s gives his thoughts on the police murder.
3. Tottenham – after the shooting (Indefilms) 9:59
Includes footage from the Saturday night and the vigil the
day after. ***PLAY***
4. Stokes Croft (South-Blessed) 5:18
Finally, footage of the rebellion in Bristol against a new
Tescos store.
5. Despite the Sun (extract) (Spectacle films) 14:49
25 years on from the Wapping dispute, the story of Murdoch’s
vicious battle against the print unions that changed the face
of the British press.
6. June 30th (Reel News) 9:14
Four national unions take coordinated strike action over
pensions. ***PLAY***
7. Southampton Council Strike (Reel News) 13:57
Binmen and social workers strike together against a
paycut as the dispute escalates. ***PLAY***
8. Sparks of resistance (Reel News) 12:35
Huge electricians demos all over the country to build for
strike action as 8 major building firms plan a 35% pay cut.
9. Oi Mush! Fuck Off (Cosmo) 4:06
Great song and video from Cosmo, originally released in 2009. ***PLAY***
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Council workers in Southampton are staging a serious fightback against Tory cuts. Rolling strike action by groups of key workers section by section has been continuing for 10 weeks – and today one of the largest groups of council workers, the social workers, walked out.