The Edinburgh Muckraker - Issue 5

Submitted by edinburghmuckraker on Tue, 27/09/2011 - 22:05
Inside this issue:
  • •What does Privatisation Mean?
  • •UK Strikes Against Cuts
  • •Workers Winning
  • •Southern Cross: Big bucks from old folks
  • •Ways you can fight back

The Edinburgh Muckraker - Issue 4

The Edinburgh Muckraker - Issue 4

Inside this issue:
• Support Workers Action Network — Fighting back and winning
• The Big Cuts Lie
• CEC: 30 years of dodging inequality
• Victimised Binman Paul French speaks out
• Council bullying — running scared

The Edinburgh Muckraker - Issue 3

The Edinburgh Muckraker - Issue 3

The Edinburgh Muckraker is produced by an independent group in solidarity with council workers, to inform the people of Edinburgh what is really going on behind the lies, mis-information and threats.

We encourage and assist effective action to win this dispute.

We aim to help Council and other workers to come together across sectional and union divides.

We see this dispute as part of a bigger battle by all working class people to fight for our needs against this profit-based system, in which people are exploited and kept down.

Interested?

Please get in touch. Contact details at the top of the page or use the contact form on our website.

Audio interview with Council Worker Solidarity Group

Submitted by edinburghmuckraker on Sun, 29/11/2009 - 23:38

Here is a five minute Interview with the Council Worker Solidarity Group. The workers themselves did not want to be interviewed on audio recorder or filmed as a bin worker who gave quotes to the Edinburgh Evening News has been suspended for talking to the press.

Interview (Ogg-Vorbis, 5 min, ca. 3 MB)

Interview (WAV, 5 min, ca.27 MB)

Interview (mp3, 5min, ca 5 MB)

The Edinburgh Muckraker - Issue 2

Edinburgh Muckraker - Issue 2

Issue 2 of the Muckraker.

This issue of the Muckraker was made possible by the donations and support of threatened council workers. Thanks!

Pay cuts rejected: struggle may go city-wide

Submitted by edinburghmuckraker on Mon, 16/11/2009 - 22:12

The struggle by council workers against pay cuts could go city wide, as the overwhelming majority of UNISONS 8,000 members have now voted to reject the Council's "pay modernisation" proposals.

So far, industrial action has only affected the cities manual workers in UNITE, who are engaging in a work to rule and overtime ban after rejecting a £4k pay cut. The dispute could soon widen to include every council department.

I am not for sale!

Submitted by edinburghmuckraker on Mon, 16/11/2009 - 22:02

200 carers and clients held an angry protest outside City Chambers on 11th November. They’re facing savage cuts and a privatisation process that could see service users separated from the carers that they have built relationships with, in favour of the lowest cost company.

www.swanedinburgh.org.uk, swanedinburgh@yahoo.co.uk,   http://ldascotland.org/

Dawe: liar, liar, pants on fire, nose as long as a telephone wire!

Submitted by edinburghmuckraker on Mon, 16/11/2009 - 21:56

The Edinburgh Evening News is being used by Council Leader Jenny Dawe, as the front line in a propaganda battle to divide and rule.In the Edinburgh Evening News, 19 October, Dawe announced that the street cleaners and other manual workers were about to make an agreement and end their industrial action, leaving bin-workers by themseves. A claim later found to be false.  

Fighting back - A bin worker reveals the untold story of harrassment during the dispute

Submitted by edinburghmuckraker on Mon, 16/11/2009 - 21:00

"The management are using bullyboy tactics and harassment. Our depot’s like a police state": an Edinburgh bin worker.

The Muckraker interviews one of the workers on the bin lorries, collecting the city’s refuse.

What’s behind the dispute?

Cleansing workers action committee

Submitted by edinburghmuckraker on Mon, 16/11/2009 - 20:30

Cleansing workers active in the dispute have told us that the official Union structures are ineffective, and believe that an Action Committee is needed.  This would bring together cleansing workers from the different depots - street cleaners, bin workers, everyone.

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