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From The Socialist newspaper, 29 August 2012
Building workers fight pay cut threat
Building workers fight pay cut: at Cardiff's Royal Infirmary 24 August, fighting Besna 2, led by electrician and TUSC candidate Andrew Wilkes (on right), photo Sarah Mayo (Click to enlarge)
Dozens gathered at Cardiff's Royal Infirmary on 24 August to support electricians taking action against "Besna 2". This is a bosses' scheme which, if successfully forced on the sparks, would cut their pay by a third.
Rank-and-file electrician and recent Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition election candidate Andrew Wilkes led construction workers and socialists in distributing leaflets to passers-by and other workers.
Construction company Balfour Beatty's banners with the ironic claim of "improving the image of construction" hung from site buildings.
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In The Socialist 29 August 2012:
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Socialist Party workplace news
Building workers fight pay cut threat
Sparks protest at London Crown House site
Local government pension scheme
Sheffield recycling workers to resume strike action
Socialist Party reports and campaigns
Lobby the TUC for a 24-hour general strike
East Midlands: Save our ambulance service
NHS: Unions must defend national pay bargaining
TUSC councillor rejects Walsall cuts 'consultation'
Prisons
Prison work - £3 a day is exploitation for profit
Women's prisons - Con-Dems' 'reforms' mean cuts and privatisation
International socialist news and analysis
Norway: Mass murderer Anders Breivik gets life sentence
Kazakhstan: Human rights campaigner Vadim Kuramshin freed
Reviews and comments
Leon Trotsky: A revolutionary's life
Fight council tax benefit cuts
The 'madness' of building homes
Socialist Party news
Notting Hill carnival-goers support Lonmin miners
Why I joined the Socialist Party
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