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Issue - 2056
Dated - 23 Jun 2007
Video of Manchester demo at Gordon Brown's 'coronation'

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Video of Manchester demo at Gordon Brown’s ‘coronation’

26 June 2007
Pictures of Manchester Stop the War demonstration, 24 June 2007
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Pictures of Manchester Stop the War demonstration, 24 June 2007

25 June 2007
Manchester marchers challenge Gordon Brown over the Iraq war
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Manchester marchers challenge Gordon Brown over the Iraq war

Around 5,000 protestors braved the Manchester rain on Sunday to join the Stop the War demonstration outside the Labour Party special conference that anointed Gordon Brown as the new party leader.
25 June 2007
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Mike Gonzalez’s audio reports from Venezuela

Mike Gonzalez is currently visiting Caracas. He is a leading member of the Socialist Workers Party in Britain and author of many books, including Che Guevara And The Cuban Revolution and A Rebel’s Guide To Marx. He is
25 June 2007
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Date for first post strike announced – everyone must back the dispute

Postal workers will strike for 24 hours from 3am on Friday 29 June,  in one of the most important battles for many years.
21 June 2007
Unison vows to defend Karen Reissmann against trust
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Unison vows to defend Karen Reissmann against trust

Supporters of Karen Reissmann – the psychiatric nurse and Unison union activist who was suspended by her employer last week – were heartened to hear that Unison’s national executive committee have pledged their full backing for Karen.
21 June 2007
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Grampian foods workers to strike

Workers at the Grampian Foods plant at Llangefni on Anglesey are to hold three days of industrial action in support of their disputes over pay, pensions and the increasing casualisation of the company’s workforce.
20 June 2007
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Gatwick baggage handlers win employment tribunal

Two GMB union members who were sacked from their baggage handling jobs at Gatwick by Aviance, the airport ground services company following allegations of theft from passengers’ luggage have been awarded £58,400 and around £50,000 in reparation by Croydon Employment Tribunals for their wrongful dismissals.
20 June 2007
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Unions join consultations to defend Remploy factories

Formal consultation on the closure of 43 Remploy factories will begin at a meeting in Leicester on Wednesday 20 June.
20 June 2007
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School kitchen staff in Hackney to strike over pay

Kitchen staff at Haggerston School in Hackney, north London, are set to strike on Wednesday of next week over pay.
20 June 2007
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Rail union opposes privatisation of East London Line

The announcement that the East London Line’s operations are to be handed to private operator MTR Laing after refurbishment in 2010 was condemned today by the Tube and rail network’s RMT union.
20 June 2007
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Wakefield cola workers to vote on strikes

Hundreds of workers at a Coca-Cola distribution centre in West Yorkshire are to be balloted on strikes in a row over pay.
20 June 2007