Manchester
Manchester NHS workers on strike
250 employees of Manchester Mental Health and Social Care Trust will take their first day´s strike today, Wednesday January 31st. This follows a 91.6% ballot result in favour of strike action.
The strike action will be taken by 250 community nurses, occupational therapists and team secretaries to stop the cuts in community mental health teams which include:
* reduction in staffing numbers in community mental health teams and consequent higher caseloads, and a reduction in service to keep people well
Five-day-strike: Report from Manchester Fujitsu strike meeting
Report from January 17th Fujitsu strike meeting in Manchester.
A packed meeting of Amicus members this afternoon decided:
1. To elect Dean Burn as a new Rep.
2. That we should continue to be available for dispute talks at any time, but that unlike in November, we should not suspend the action unless there was tangible evidence of good prospects of success, to avoid further time-wasting.
Update on Manchester Fujitsu strike
A report from the Amicus union on the recent strike of Fujitsu workers in Manchester, dated December 1st.
Dispute Update
Amicus Reps Ian Allinson, Lynne Hodge and Sulayman Munir attended the talks with ACAS yesterday, where the company was represented by Richard Bull, Larry Upton and Howard Morgan.
Manchester Fujitsu workers on strike
Workers at a Fujitsu site in Manchester were on strike Monday, and have a further two-day strike planned to begin on Wednesday.
The action, organised by the Amicus union, is in response to several grievances - including unpaid overtime, pay rise delays and erosion of redunancy rights. The Fujitsu site at Central Park provides call centre and IT services to the public sector, workers at another site at West Gorton also participated in the action.
JJB workers to go out on strike
The BBC are reporting that unionised workers at Greater Manchester-based JJB Sports plan to go on strike next week calling for better wages and conditions, according to the GMB Union.
The GMB said 266 workers at the JJB distribution warehouse in Martland Park, Wigan, are taking action on Tuesday and Thursday.
There will also be a continuous ban on overtime from Tuesday morning as workers protest against a 3% pay rise.
Union negotiators are seeking a higher basic rate for warehouse staff.
They are also calling for equal access to a bonus scheme.
Manchester United fans fight back
A press release by the Manchester Education Committee group of Man Utd supporters who disrupted a reserve team game.
PRESS RELEASE - Operation Havana, 07-10-2004
