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Ireland: Toy workers' picket over pay
Workers at Hasbro, the toy manufacturer, mounted a lunchtime unofficial picket at the gates of their Waterford plant last week.
On Tuesday 21 February seventy workers, members of the SIPTU union, picketed the facility to demand a pay rise promised in the ' Sustaining Progress' talks in July 2004. Hasbro bosses have since reneged on the deal, insisting that staff must relinquish their seniority before receiving the rises.
UK: Picketing brickies released
Three bricklayers jailed this month for picketing building sites where they'd be refused work have been released.
RTE news reported that Keith Kelly, Billy McClurg and Andrew Clarke told Ms Justice Mary Laffoy today that they would not picket sites operated by Collen Construction.
The three men were previously jailed after refusing to give such an undertaking.
Radical union's picket wins worker back unpaid wages
Members of the Chicago General Membership Branch of the Industrial Workers of the World labour union (IWW) last week picketted and called for a boycott of the Ideal Hand Car Wash in Chicago’s Albany Park neighbourhood.
The managers and owners of the business refused to pay Neil Rysdahl, a longtime member of the IWW, the $227.50 he was owed for over 45 hours of work he preformed for them.
