The lump: an heretical analysis - Dave Lamb
1974 pamphlet by Solidarity criticising the standard left and union response to "the lump": the paying of building workers by lump sums for a job instead of union rates on national terms and conditions. Deeply controversial at the time, it criticised the slogan "Defend the unions, smash the lump!" and pointed out that the building unions agreeing to enforce a government pay freeze in "national interest" bore much responsibility for the development.
Pay strikes brewing in education and construction
April 24 – hundreds of thousands to walk out
20,000 Birmingham council workers to strike
UK building workers to prepare for 2012 Olympics
Construction: Struggle at Laing O’Rourke, Britain, 2004
The following article provides a short summary about a strike of building workers in London in Autumn 2004. Apart from the more or less self-organised character of the struggle, with workers assemblies in parks and blockage of the site entrances, we think that there were two main interesting aspects of the dispute.
1999: Dahl Jenson construction strike
Heathrow: Three day strike at Terminal 5
Construction workers for Laing O'Rourke at the Heathrow Terminal 5 site are likely to begin a three day strike from Tuesday morning at 6.45 until the same time Friday morning over their ongoing pay dispute.
Strike action hits new Heathrow terminal 5 site
Nearly 1,000 workers building a £4. 2bn terminal at Heathrow airport went on a 24-hour strike today.
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