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Issue - 1868
Dated - 13 Sep 2003
Back anti-war activists in Egypt

A DEMONSTRATION was taking place this week in defence of Egyptian anti-war activists. It is scheduled for Friday 12 September from 5pm to 6.30pm outside the Egyptian embassy at 26 South Street, London W1 (nearest tube Green Park).

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Back anti-war activists in Egypt

A DEMONSTRATION was taking place this week in defence of Egyptian anti-war activists. It is scheduled for Friday 12 September from 5pm to 6.30pm outside the Egyptian embassy at 26 South Street, London W1 (nearest tube Green Park).
13 September 2003
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Standing up for refugees

OVER 2,000 people joined the biggest, and angriest, demonstration yet last Saturday against the Dungavel refugee detention centre in Lanarkshire (right). Scotland's "asylum prison" has been the subject of protests since it opened two years ago. Saturday's demo began with furious demonstrators banging on the huge metal barrier around the centre chanting, "Shut it down!"
13 September 2003
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United we can stop the BNP

THE BNP were beaten in a council by-election in Walker, Newcastle, last week. Kenny Bell, deputy regional convenor of Unison Northern Region, explained how unions are at the centre of a model campaign to beat the BNP.
13 September 2003
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Council workers

MANUAL WORKERS in the GMB union working for Manchester city Council struck for a day on Monday against the imposition of the Single Status agreement. They voted three to one to strike in an official ballot. Many other council workers in other departments refused to cross their picket lines.
13 September 2003
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Bus strikes on-and other ones behind

Hull HULL BUS drivers, employed by Stagecoach, are striking over pay. Some 300 drivers walked out last Saturday following a mass meeting. It had rejected a company proposal for a phased pay increase that would only bring an hourly rate of £6.84.
13 September 2003
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Nursery nurses

NURSERY NURSES in Scotland plan two days of strikes in all regions next week. Some areas will strike on Tuesday and Wednesday, others on Wednesday and Thursday. The action will include a major protest in Edinburgh on the Wednesday. But the first event is the major rally planned for this Saturday, 13 September, to give other workers and parents the opportunity to join nursery nurses and show their support.
13 September 2003
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Festivals

THE FIRST ever Walthamstow festival took place this weekend in north east London. The themes of the festival were "Peace on our streets" and "Celebrate our cultural diversity". The main stage saw some fantastic acts from across the world. There was a respect stage with a massive Love Music Hate Racism banner across the top of it, an urban peace stage, a dance stage and a comedy gig with Mark Steel and Shazia Mirza.
13 September 2003
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Fujitsu

SOME 800 workers at IT company Fujitsu Services in West Gorton, Manchester, plan to take industrial action after staff unanimously rejected management's latest offer. The vote came at a union general meeting held on Thursday of last week, which also agreed to increase the planned action, adding an extra half-day strike before the end of the month.
13 September 2003
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Sacked for striking

ALMOST 100 contract workers at the Swan Hunter shipyard on North Tyneside have been sacked after walking out over pay. The men, working for C & D Industrial Services, held an unofficial strike and a few days later were told they had lost their jobs.
13 September 2003
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Election: Shock as BNP win Essex council seat

THE RESULT gave added urgency to debates at this week's TUC on building a mass campaign to beat back the Nazi BNP. The result in Grays is especially worrying, as the town is little different to dozens across the country.
13 September 2003
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On yer bike

GET ON your bike to raise funds for the Socialist Worker Appeal on Sunday 26 October. There are two routes covering 30 miles or 60 miles, both setting out from Victoria Park in London.
13 September 2003
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Journalists

NUJ UNION members on the Sheffield Star have named dates when they could call mandatory chapel (branch) meetings after voting for industrial action in a ballot over pay. The dates are on every day in the week beginning 22 September and the meetings can take place at any time between 7am and 3pm. In the ballot 80 percent voted for a strike.
13 September 2003