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Knowsley Livv Housing workers have intensified their strikes in their fight for fair pay. After workers endured years of below inflation pay rises, they’ve now rejected a pay increase of five per cent because it fails to reverse the real terms pay cuts they’ve suffered. Livv Housing, which manages and maintains over 13,000 properties primarily […]
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Workers at social housing landlord Magenta Living are to take extensive strike action over fears that new working practices will expose them to asbestos. The 100 plus workers, who are members Unite are employed in repairs and maintenance roles for Magenta Living, which manages 13,000 properties mainly covering the Wirral. Magenta Living has imposed a […]
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Strike action planned by nearly 200 Veolia workers at 22 Merseyside household waste sites will not go ahead after the workers accepted an improved pay offer. The two year pay deal, secured by Unite, will see workers receive a 10 per cent pay rise backdated for the financial year 2022/23 and an 8.4 per cent […]
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After 29 days of all-out industrial action, Unite the union has today (August 19) declared the strike at Arriva North West over having securing a magnificent pay deal for its members. Unite’s 2043 members across 11 Merseyside garages have voted overwhelmingly (by nearly 10 to one) to accept the 11.1 per cent offer, worth an […]
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More than 500 port operatives will strike over an ‘inadequate’ seven per cent pay offer, which Unite said is a real terms pay cut. In a ballot with an 88 per cent turnout, 99 per cent voted for strike action. The strikes, the dates of which have not yet been set, will bring Liverpool container […]
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Unite members employed by Stagecoach in Merseyside have ended their industrial dispute after agreeing a substantial pay increase. The 370 strong workforce, based at Stagecoach’s Gilmoss depot, had…Read more…
Members of Unite employed by Stagecoach Merseyside have announced all-out strike action in their pay dispute, due to the employer’s failure to make an improved offer. The 370 bus workers, who are…Read more…
Bus strikes affecting Stagecoach Merseyside’s entire operation are set to go ahead next Monday (July 4) as the workforce takes a stand against low pay. The action will involve 370 members of Unite,…Read more…
A strike of bus workers employed by Stagecoach on Merseyside scheduled for this Thursday (June 30) has been suspended after workers received a revised pay offer. The dispute involves 370 members of…Read more…
Bus passengers across Merseyside are set for severe disruption and delays beginning next week as a result of bus operator Stagecoach failing to make workers a fair pay offer. The dispute affects 370…Read more…
Strike action at rail engineering company Faiveley Transport Birkenhead Ltd has been avoided after workers agreed a greatly improved pay offer. The workforce, who are members of Unite, overwhelmingly…Read more…
Merseyside glassmakers employed by Pilkington are being balloted for strike action over the company’s failure to deliver a promised 2.5 per cent pay rise, Unite said today (January 29). More than 100…Read more…
EDWARD RUSHTON (1756-1814)
IT is just a few years since I heard about Edward Rushton, Liverpool’s blind poet, anti-slavery campaigner and radical revolutionary.
Born in John Street, Liverpool, in…Read more…