Corbyn’s team’s large Foodbank donation
As the SKWAWKBOX revealed earlier, Jeremy Corbyn’s team showed a similar spirit to their boss by rolling up their sleeves and volunteering at homeless support centres run by Crisis. Corbyn […]
Tag Archives: Merseyside
Latest SKWAWKBOX update. Please support if you can
The period since the last SKWAWKBOX update at the turn of the month has been particularly busy, as the Tories’ Brexit plans unravelled and the situation became incredibly fluid. Below are […]
Two Liverpool CLPs condemn their MP’s support for 2nd referendum call
Earlier this week, some thirty-odd centrist MPs and a handful of peers and MEPs signed a letter to Jeremy Corbyn to demand that he initiate a vote of no-confidence and […]
Full details for tomorrow’s great Liverpool Left event announced
Last night, the SKWAWKBOX announced Liverpool Left‘s fantastic Working Class Fight-Back event, which takes place in the city tomorrow night. Full details of the line-up and arrangements are now available. Liverpool Left […]
Huge victory for workers as #CammellLaird shelves redundancy plans
Shipyard workers and their unions have achieved a major victory in their fight to prevent hundreds of redundancies at the Cammell Laird shipyard on Merseyside. In a meeting this afternoon […]
Efforts to undermine #CammellLaird strikers pt 2: the petition
On Wednesday evening, the SKWAWKBOX published evidence of a coordinated campaign on social media to undermine the efforts and credibility of GMB and Unite members at the Cammell Laird shipyard […]
Coordinated efforts to undermine #CammellLaird strikers pt1: Twitter accounts spring up to troll
Union members at the Cammell Laird shipyard in Birkenhead are united in a rolling strike action to defend their jobs after the company announced plans to make around forty percent […]
Impact: unions say Cammell ran short of gas even on day 1 of strike as lorries turned back
Unite and GMB members have been picketing the Cammell Laird shipyard in Birkenhead since Monday as part of rolling strike action in response to the company’s plan to impose almost […]
Cammell Laird workers hold mass walk-out today to defend their jobs
Workers at the Cammell Laird shipyard on Merseyside face the loss of almost three hundred jobs – just after the company won a new £619 million contract. Unions have […]
Merseyside branch calls for selection rerun as LCF identifies multiple procedural breaches
Liscard Labour branch in the Merseyside borough of Wirral has called an emergency meeting for next Tuesday after the Local Campaign Forum (LCF) – the Labour body with oversight of […]