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Straw provokes POA

JUSTICE SECRETARY Jack Straw has announced that he is reintroducing a ban on prison officers going on strike. This is a blatant provocation to the Prison Officers Association (POA) that organised, very successfully, its first-ever national day of strike action last August.

The Tories removed the POA's right to strike in 1994. Labour repealed the ban but implemented a 'voluntary' no-strike agreement that broke down last year.

More on Straw's anti-working class threat in future issues of the socialist.


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Fight for socialism!

Defeat the pay limit

Feature: Socialism and democracy needed to reshape the world


Socialist Party workplace news

Postal workers fight to defend the Burslem 12

Scrooge employers attack shop workers

Building workers fight for real union representation

Fighting council cuts

Industrial news in brief


Socialist Party editorial

Renationalise the energy industry


Socialist Party news and analysis

Police ballot for industrial rights

Straw provokes POA

Soaring food prices hit world's poor

Big business hands off our NHS!

The privateers are taking over


International socialist news and analysis

Pakistan: Mass opposition to Musharraf regime after Benazir killing

Kenya: Stolen election explodes into mass anger and bloodshed


Socialist Party feature

Victory! Tenants beat £1 million sell-off campaign


Obituary

Obituary: Andrew Glyn


Socialist Party review

Review: Marx's Das Kapital: a biography, by Francis Wheen


 

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