Port Talbot: Tata already making concessions as campaign strengthens

Running Time: 2mins 19secs Port Talbot steelworkers were out again in force as the Welsh Affairs Select Committee met in ...
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Port Talbot: Steelworkers’ resolve strengthens

Running Time: 3mins 34secs A lively demonstration outside Port Talbot steelworks showed the strengthening resolve of the workers to defeat ...
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Port Talbot: The fight to save UK steel

Running Time: 2 mins 57 secs *** READ THE WORKERS PLAN FOR PORT TALBOT HERE: https://www.unitetheunion.org/campaigns/the-fight-for-steel/unites-workers-plan-for-steel *** The battle lines ...
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URGENT: GKN factory occupation needs YOUR help to start green production under workers control

Running Time: 8 mins 42 secs For over two years now, workers have been occupying the GKN autoparts factory in ...
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Scotland construction: positive developments

Running Time: 5 min 12 sec After a meeting with senior UNITE officials on March 24, the rank and file ...
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Drax strike: Spectacular victory as contract workers walk out in support and block roundabout

Running Time: 6 mins 21 secs Workers at Drax power station were celebrating a spectacular victory after just one day ...
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Glasgow: Construction Rank & File demand “substantial pay rise”

Running Time: 6 mins 52 secs The Construction rank & file visit Multiplex's JP Morgan site in Glasgow - one ...
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SSE Glasgow: Direct action reinstates sacked trade unionist

Running time: 7mins 41 secs UNITE Scottish Construction rank and file and the Blacklist Support Group were celebrating a very ...
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Fawley oil refinery strike: Exxon Mobil send in police to harass workers

Running Time: 6 min 33 secs Extraordinary scenes this week at Fawley Oil Refinery in Hampshire, where Exxon Mobil sent ...
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Liverpool dockers strike 2022: Dockers march on Labour Party conference

Running time: 2 mins 14 secs Liverpool dockers strike 2022: Dockers are on strike for an above inflation pay rise ...
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Fawley oil workers strike over derisory 2.5% pay offer

Running Time: 5 mins 2 secs ***UPDATE: The oil workers ended up with a victory after securing a 9.2% pay ...
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Skelton Grange,Leeds blockaded as workers demand HZI pay the rate

Running Time: 3mins 30secs Yet another company trying to get away with not paying nationally agreed rates and importing their ...
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Pay The Rate! Scunthorpe Scaffies go on all out strike

Running Time: 6:17 Maintenance scaffolders at British Steel are going on all out strike for the next 12 weeks, in ...
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“Can’t beat the rank and file!” The future of trade unionism in construction

Running Time: 13:17 There are two approaches to trade unionism - a business friendly partnership, or rank and file militancy ...
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Kier: End the discrimination on sick pay

Running Time: 2min 20 secs Notorious blacklisting construction company Kier are not paying their motorway maintenance staff in Basingstoke sick ...
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Sparks shut down nuclear weapons facility over deskilling

Running Time: 6:09 In an audacious move, sparks sensationally shut down the Atomic Weapons Establishment at Burghfield, Berkshire over the ...
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Sparks occupy Land Securities offices over deskilling

Running Time: 1:45 Over the past two weeks, sparks have continued to target NG Baileys over their dangerous deskilling plans ...
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No2ESO: Sparks invade Balfour Beatty job over deskilling

Running Time: 4 mins 5 secs Sparks invaded a Balfour Beatty job in Canary Wharf this morning as the campaign ...
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No2ESO! Sparks march on Parliament

Running Time: 3mins 44secs Sparks target Balfour Beatty jobs all over the country as planned deskilling attacks widens to all ...
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Sparks cause chaos at Hinkley Point C

Running Time: 4mins 27secs Sparks descended on Hinkley Point C for the first time this week, bringing traffic to a ...
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NG Baileys running scared as No2ESO protests intensify

Running Time: 4:27 Management at NG Baileys head offices in London and the North East failed to turn up to ...
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Sparks target Royal Opera House as EDF bow to pressure on deskilling

Running Time: 1min 48secs A significant step forward this week as a result of the sparks' campaign of direct action ...
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No2ESO: Pressure from sparks forces Balfour Beatty to shift

Running Time: 1min 52secs Only three weeks in to the campaign against deskilling of electricians at Hinkley Point C - ...
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NG Baileys Head office and building site occupied over deskilling

Running Time: 4 mins 29 secs Round One to the sparks - after the first week of protests, client EDF ...
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No 2 ESO! Sparks fight back against deskilling at Hinckley Point C

Running Time: 4mins 57 secs Another major industrial dispute is kicking off as electricians occupy the London offices of EDF, ...
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IKEA: Reinstate Richie Venton!

Running Time: 2:19 Security at IKEA manhandled and shoved peaceful protestors out of IKEA's North London store who were demanding ...
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Builder’s Crack – The Movie

For many years, the infamous "Builders Crack: The Movie” was assumed lost forever .. but recently the master was found ...
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Blacklisting Scandal at Manchester Airport

Construction workers are picketing Manchester airport over the disgraceful treatment that 70 sparks and fitters have received from JCK Limited ...
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Coronavirus: Engie Fabricom site made safe through union action

Report: Issy Harvey A huge woodchip processing plant on the Humber near Saltend, Hull, has been made safe and reduced ...
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Coronavirus: Workers demand construction sites are shut down

Reel News have been inundated with messages from construction workers all over the UK, demanding their sites are shut down ...
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Gentrification project in Haringey needs shutting down NOW!

  This is beyond outrageous. Anthology Hale Works at Tottenham Hale, where you can see in the photo brickies working ...
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Crawley Council: Industrial Action Imminent

Workers doing social repairs for Crawley Council have had enough. The two contractors, Mitie and Mears, are refusing to pay ...
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Huge rally to save Appledore Shipyard

Film length: 5:49 Huge demonstration in Bideford, North Devon this weekend, to stop the only merchant shipyard in the country ...
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Umbrella Scam: Time for Action

Film length: 10:47 Members of UNITE the Union take to the streets to demand an end to the scandal of ...
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Blacklisting: The Crimes of Carillion

So, not content with using our money to bail out the banks, now they want us to bail out blacklisting ...
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Blacklisting Day of Action Roundup

Blacklist Support Group (including 4 UNITE EC members) occupying London offices of Skanska was just one of the highlights of ...
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Big Ben Blacklisting scandal

Film length: 2:38 Ahead of a Parliamentary debate on blacklisting, the Blacklist Support Group demanded answers over the awarding of ...
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BWSC – Stop exploiting workers in Sandwich!

Film length: 4:34 Here we go again - another company who thinks it can completely ignore national construction agreements and ...
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Blacklisting: Frank Morris sacked AGAIN

Film length: 5:53 Frank Morris has been thrown off a job AGAIN after previously being sacked and blacklisted on the ...
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Outrage as Gravesham Council imposes 7 day working

Film length: 2:18 Council workers who repair and maintain Gravesham's social housing are up in arms over the council's plans ...
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Unofficial strike on Crossrail over bonus payments and blacklisting

Film length: 6:25 Rank and file electricians have had enough of being paid a third of what they're worth on ...
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Fawley protest: Outrage at oil refinery paying workers £4.80 an hour

Film length: 6:01 Workers protested outside Fawley oil refinery as it emerged that some workers are getting paid just 60 ...
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Blacklisting trial: time running out for blacklisting companies

Film length: 7:47 Latest from the high court trial of major construction companies over illegal conspiracy to blacklist - compensation ...
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Skanska offices occupied over illegal blacklisting

Film length: 5:33 The offices of Swedish construction company Skanska were occupied today by the Blacklist Support Group. Skanska, who ...
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Blacklisting: Justice campaigns unite in support of the Liverpool 3

Film length: 11:57 The Blacklist Support Group demand an end to blacklisting at Liverpool's Anfield stadium, joining forces with the ...
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Carillion Blacklisting Scandal: Liverpool traffic brought to a standstill

Film length: 11:19 “I think this has got the capacity to be the biggest thing in this city since the ...
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Major construction dispute erupts in Teesside

Film length: 10:12 Mass pickets at the Wilton Centre, near Redcar bring traffic chaos and local approval as UNITE, GMB ...
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Direct action wins the day as spectacular & immediate victory humiliates bullying construction bosses at Canary Wharf. 27-7-15

On Monday REEL NEWS attended an inspiring action by supporters of the Blacklist Support Group at the site of Morgan ...
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Fiasco at Blacklist Trial

Film length: 4:05 Another attempt to criminalise the right to protest was thwarted today – by Tory cuts to the ...
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Crossrail arrest: Statement from Blacklist Support Group secretary

Film length: 2:27 Statement from Blacklist Support Group secretary Dave Smith as he arrives at court to face charges of ...
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Crossrail sackings: Leading Blacklisting Campaigner Arrested

Film length: 4:16 Dave Smith, secretary of the Blacklist Support Group and co-author of Blacklisted, was arrested just 2 minutes ...
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Sackings on Crossrail: major campaign starts by blocking Oxford Street

Film length: 5:11 In the past few weeks, two UNITE members have been sacked for raising serious health and safety ...
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Blacklisted: the book – Official Trailer

Film length: 3:11 The long awaited book by Dave Smith and Phil Chamberlain, “Blacklisted: the secret war between big business ...
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Sacked Crossrail worker reinstated within minutes by direct action

Film length: 2:01 In the fastest dispute of the year so far, a worker who was sacked for raising health ...
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Blacklisting: High Court conspiracy trial begins

Film length: 9:32 An historic moment: construction companies find themselves in the dock at the Royal Courts of Justice, charged ...
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Blacklisted workers assaulted during peaceful protest at Laing O’Rourke HQ

Film length: 6:43 Blacklisted workers have made a complaint to Kent police after being assaulted during a peaceful protest at ...
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Umbrella Scam: Sparks lead the fightback

Film length: 6:07 Electricians in London alongside the Blacklist Support Group and other construction workers take direct action against the ...
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Blacklisted workers serve arrest warrant on Cullum McAlpine

Film length: 5:32 Today the Blacklist Support Group marked five years of inaction by the police by attempting to uphold ...
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National Blacklisting Day of Action sends shockwaves through the building industry

Film length: 15:32 Demonstrations and civil disobedience across the UK in the first ever national day of action over blacklisting ...
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REEL NEWS statement on BBC copyright abuse 7-11-13

On Thursday October 31st the BBC continuously ran a news item in which they accused the UNITE Trade Union of ...
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Blacklisting 2013 – The Workers Strike Back

Film length: 22:28 Huge strides for the campaign against the illegal blacklistng of trade unionists over the past 18 months; ...
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Blacklisting on Crossrail – The Proof

Film length: 14:58 Crossrail are blacklisting trade unionists – and here’s the proof. Testimonies from people with direct experience of ...
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Blacklisting at Crossrail: UNITE declares war

Film Length: 12:09 The largest union in the country is putting all their resources into ending the illegal practise of ...
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Blacklist Support Group AGM March 2013

Film Length: 16:06 150 blacklisted workers and supporters declare war on the illegal conspiracy by construction firms and police to ...
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Explosion at Crossrail: worker seriously injured

Film Length: 3:05 Having sacked safety reps for pointing out the danger of an exposed 12,000v live cable at their ...
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Sparks and Civil Servants join N14 European day of action

Film Length: 10:52 General strikes in 5 countries in Europe, industrial action in 18 more. In London, electricians and civil ...
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Crossrail dispute: Desperate BFK resort to violence

Film Length: 15:34 NOTE: Keep watching this to the end and you’ll see the soon-to-be-legendary “gloss paint” method of dealing ...
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Crossrail reeling from Sparks flashmobs

Film Length: 5:32 The sparks are getting the upper hand in the Crossrail dispute, where all 28 UNITE union members ...
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Sparks flashmob at Crossrail site, Oxford St 26.09.12

Film Length: 4:04 Sacked electricians and supporters stage a flashmob at the Crossrail site on Oxford Street in protest at ...
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Sparks: Mass Picket at Crossrail

Film Length: 7:40 Rank and file electricians and supporters cause chaos at the Crossrail site in Westbourne Park, London. Lots ...
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Sparks target Crossrail for blockade after sackings 17-9-12

This morning electricians, the Blacklist Support Group and their supporters closed the main entrance of the Crossrail project in Westbourne ...
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Coryton workers clash with Police.

Slideshow On Monday workers from the Coryton refinery in Essex held a protest at the Vopak fuel depot in Purfleet ...
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Sparks disrupt bosses’ dinner, then sensationally defeat Balfour Beatty

Film Length: 11:26 2 down, 6 to go – What a week! Wednesday, the electricians block Park Lane and bring ...
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Sparks bring Park Lane to a standstill.

Electricians brought London’s exclusive Park lane to a standstill last night as they protested outside the annual ECA Dinner Ball ...
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Blacklisted 2012 ***NEW UPDATED VERSION***

Film Length: 21:25 Reel News and Blacklist Support Group present: Blacklisted 2012 Multinational construction companies have been illegally blacklisting trade ...
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Sparks Unofficial action shuts down Balfour Beatty sites all over the UK

Film Length: 10:00 ***FULL RESOLUTION VERSION AVAILABLE ON REEL NEWS 30 *** After 81% of Balfour Beatty electricians vote to ...
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Sparks national day of action: police run ragged all over London

Film Length: 12:30 ***FULL RESOLUTION VERSION AVAILABLE ON REEL NEWS 30 *** In the continued battle over a 35% pay ...
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