strikes Archives - Brockley SE4

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Forest

SE23

Hill

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Delivery Riders Strike and South London ‘Dark Kitchens’

Feb

2024

Notes from Below report on the recent food delivery riders strike:'On Friday 2 February thousands of food delivery riders, demanding a pay rise, took strike action against all of the apps, in over 90 zones across London, Brighton, Liverpool, Bath and Glasgow. The strike demanded a pay increase. In 2017, Deliveroo paid a minimum £4 ...

NHS Physios on Strike: ‘F**ck praise, we need a raise’

Jan

2023

Physiotherapists are the latest group of NHS workers taking strike action in the cost of living crisis. Their strike on 26 January 2023 was well supported at South London Hospitals. I visited the picket line at Guys Hospital:'if you're happy to exploit NHS workers and you know it clap your hands' 'F**ck praise, we need a ...

Strike against job cuts at Goldsmiths

Nov

2021

A good turn out at Goldsmiths College in New Cross today at a rally to mark the start of a three week strike by members of the University and College Union against threatened job cuts.Goldsmiths UCU say: 'Goldsmiths Senior Management Team (SMT) is planning mass staff redundancies across departments this term, as part of a ...

Poster Workshop 1968-71: North Peckham strike and Catford reggae festival

Jun

2018

The Poster Workshop was a radical screenprinting project 'set up in a basement at 61 Camden Road, Camden Town, London N1, in the summer of 1968. It was carried along on the wave of rebellion sweeping the world at that time, and was inspired in part by the Atelier Populaire which had resulted from the ...

Strike and Corruption at New Cross Steam Engine Factory

Mar

2018

Bunnett and Corpe was a 19th century engineering firm with a factory in New Cross Road. The Post Office London Directory, 1843, described them as 'engineers and patentees of the concentric steam engine, and of revolving iron shutters' with an office at 26 Lombard Street and factory in New Cross.In 1865 there was a strike ...

Strike at Goldsmiths

Mar

2018

I've been down to the picket line at Goldsmiths in New Cross a couple of times in the last week to show support to the striking lecturers and other college staff. They have been taking part in a national strike which will continue next week unless there is some movement from employers in the next few days ...

Junior Doctors Strike – it’s not all about the money

Apr

2016

photo from Dr Tony O'Sullivan on twitterPickets were out at hospitals across the country yesterday - and will be again today - in the 4th strike in the ongoing Junior Doctors dispute. In South East London that included Lewisham Hospital (pictured above) and Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Woolwich. Simon Pirani, who was at Woolwich, has sent ...

NHS Cleaners strike at four South London mental heatlh units

Mar

2016

Domestics and hostesses employed by private contractor Aramark at four sites of South London and Maudsley NHS Trust (SLAM) are out on strike today, seeking a living wage of £10per hour and an end to two tier arrangements on sick pay and shift allowances. The strike involves GMB members at the Maudsley, Lambeth, Bethlem and ...

Junior Doctors Strike in South London

Jan

2016

There was good support across South London for today's strike by Junior Doctors against proposed new contract conditions.Pickets at Maudsley Hospital in Camberwell photo from Unite the Resistance on twitterGuys HospitalSt Thomas Hospital - photo by @laurafleur on twitterCroydon University Hospital - photo from @ger_ogara on twitterLewisham Hospital - photo from @Allan_Katie on twitterIf you want to know ...

1915 London Tram Strike in New Cross

Jun

2015

A hundred years ago this week, tram workers in London were sacked for going on strike and sent off to war. The London tram strike was prompted by the rising cost of living - the 7,000 strikers demanded a 'war bonus'. The response of the employer, London County Council (LCC), was to sack all men ...