Fargate Speaker #10 Out Now

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Neighbourhoods: sheffield
Published by group: GroupAnarchist Federation (Sheffield)

Latest issue of Anarchist Federation (Sheffield) local bulletin The Fargate Speaker (#10) out now.

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In this issue: Workers fightback to the crisis, Community projects across Sheffield, New Social Centre, Continuing Look at Sheffield's Radical History and more...

Available at - http://yorks-afed.org/publications/fargate-speaker/

The Fightback Starts Here

Despite over twenty years of attacks on the lives of working people by both Conservative and Labour governments, workers across Sheffield are standing up to fight the fallout from the economic recession.
First bus drivers were amongst the first to take a stand with 1,400 taking strike action in July over drivers’ pay and changes to working conditions. First group made £122 million in profit last year yet claims it cannot afford a pay-rise due to the recession.The company has been successful  in mounting legal challenges to future strike action. However, the dispute is by no means resolved and likely to escalate in the near future.
Unions representing 13,500 council workers are considering industrial action after final talks with Sheffield Council failed to deliver a last-minute agreement on pay. The council is attempting to slash the salaries of over 2,500 staff including those on the lowest pay brackets such as the city’s street cleaners.
In the education sector Sheffield University is pushing pay freezes and “voluntary” redundancies across the workforce. The University and College Union has already put forward a national ballot for industrial action. Students and campus workers are also pushing for action against the cuts.
Activists from across Yorkshire  also formed a neighbourhood in the national camp for climate action to highlight the environmental damage caused by the capitalist system. The current crisis not only threatens our jobs, or our ability to get a job, but the very future of our planet.
It is clear that we have the seeds of a wider fightback against the current crisis. There is a gowing feeling that we will not have our pay cut or our jobs threatened just so the bosses can continue to line their pockets.

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