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Fight against fare rises, service cuts and job losses
By Dagmar Walgraeve, 8 May 2009
Six bus services have been axed since the start of May. Many elderly, disabled, working and unemployed people are now left without any means of transport. The cuts affect areas in Dungiven, Antrim, Coleraine, Newtownards, Holywood and Belfast. Many more bus services are expected to see reductions in frequencies.
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Visteon occupation shows...
ACTION GETS RESULTS
By Peter Hadden, 8 May 2009
The workers at Visteon – through their month long occupation of their factory – have written an important chapter in the history of the labour movement in Northern Ireland.
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After Visteon, unions need to launch campaign to...
FIGHT TO SAVE JOBS
By Gary Mulcahy, 8 May 2009
The Visteon workers have shown by their determined and militant action that workers are not helpless against the tidal wave of wage cuts and job losses sweeping the globe. Like many other groups of workers they have been treated deplorably by Visteon and Ford bosses who have made huge profits down the years off the backs of these workers.Read more...
By Gary Mulcahy, We Won’t Pay Campaign, 8 May 2009The planned introduction of household water charges next April looks to be in serious doubt. It seems the parties in the Executive have privately admitted to themselves that they haven’t a hope of making people pay, despite their best efforts to disguise the introduction in some form next year.
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Socialist Youth News
Fight Job losses at Pizza Hut; No to slave labour youth schemes; Youth Fight for Jobs campaign gathers momentum
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Recession? What recession?
Daniel Waldron, 8 April 2009
Working people in Northern Ireland are certainly feeling the effects of the recession, with wage cuts, daily announcements of job losses and slashes in public services. The local politicians, however, could be forgiven for asking, ‘Recession? What recession?’