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The postal strike's fiery war of words

The postal strike is shaping up to be the industrial hot potato of the year. The war of words went from cold war to hot war as national strike action began. All this was played out on primetime TV. This week and last week, Royal Mail has accused the ...

From GREGOR GALL, Comment Is Free,  30 Oct 2009
Related Topics: Dave Ward

The wrath of the public sector

If public sector workers decide they should not have to pay for a crisis they did not create, a flood of anger will swamp Labour The inevitable has now begun to happen. After bailing out the financial system and the wider economy with more than £1tn of ...

From GREGOR GALL, Guardian Unlimited,  6 Jul 2009
Related Topics: Alistair Darling,  UK Conservative Party

Wildcat strikes will go nuclear

It's the dispute that won't go away. For the third time this year, thousands of engineering construction workers have gone on unofficial strike, fighting for the right to work. This time the dispute has escalated dramatically unlike before, with the ...

From GREGOR GALL, Comment Is Free,  19 Jun 2009

Bossnapping beats occupation

French and British workers have adopted different tactics to resist the effects of the recession Anglo-French rivalry in the arena of industrial resistance against the effects of the recession is alive and well. So far the score is France 9, Britain 5. ...

From GREGOR GALL, Comment Is Free,  10 Apr 2009
Related Topics: Brendan Barber

Gregor Gall: Can Barack Obama pass the Employee Free Choice Act?

As Barack Obama's inauguration approaches, the political favours that he owes to getting him to where he is now are starting to be called in. Witnessing, and detesting, the growing divide between rich and poor through the stagnation and fall in the ...

From GREGOR GALL, Guardian Unlimited,  9 Jan 2009
Related Topics: Barack Obama,  U.S. Senate,  U.S. House of Representatives,  U.S. Democratic Party,  U.S. Republican Party

Gregor Gall: Can workforce concessions save jobs or do they just prolong the pain and delay the inevitability of mass redundancies?

The steel plant is the Llanwern works near Newport which employs 1,000 workers and is one of the last remaining steel factories in the Britain. The steelmaking part of Llanwern was shut in 2001 with 1,300 redundancies. Workers there have already agreed ...

From GREGOR GALL, Comment Is Free,  11 Dec 2008

Gregor Gall: An internal feud is threatening to tear apart Unite, Britain's biggest union

Gregor Gall: An internal feud is threatening to tear Britain's biggest union apart at a time when its members need it ...

From GREGOR GALL, Guardian Unlimited,  11 Nov 2008
Related Topics: Gordon Brown

Gregor Gall: The unions must review their tactics and assess how effective they are in today's economic climate

A recession is well and truly here if you look at the newspapers and see the daily tally of redundancies and closures. Indeed, ITN has just started doing its daily count on its late evening bulletin – just as it did in the 1980s. Most economic analysts ...

From GREGOR GALL, Comment Is Free,  28 Oct 2008
Related Topics: Gordon Brown

Gregor Gall: It's up to the left to rid nationalisation of its historically wasteful image

Gregor Gall: For public ownership of financial institutions to work, we must rid nationalisation of its historically wasteful ...

From GREGOR GALL, Guardian Unlimited,  29 Sep 2008
Related Topics: Northern Rock,  Bradford & Bingley

Gregor Gall: Things are grim when unions flirt with Toryism

Gregor Gall: You know things are grim when even unions long-associated with Labour flirt with the ...

From GREGOR GALL, Guardian Unlimited,  18 Sep 2008
Related Topics: UK Conservative Party,  Margaret Thatcher,  Derek Simpson,  David Miliband,  Gordon Brown

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