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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 […]
Tag Archives: Wirral
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 […]
Wirral council leader accused of “choreographed political attack” to step down
Wirral council leader Phil Davies has been in and around controversy in the Merseyside borough recently. A council employee close to Davies was revealed as the ‘author’ of a resignation […]
Left sweeps the board at Birkenhead AGM
The SKWAWKBOX has featured at length the ‘choreographed‘ smears by now-independent MP Frank Field and a string of councillors and local Labour figures. Happily, it seems to be failing to […]
#Lab18 second deputy leader motion withdrawn and why
The Labour right and the mainstream media are in lockstep this morning with claims that the motion at Labour’s annual conference to create a second deputy leader position has been […]