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Pride of the past
With all the world-wide Pride events taking place, it's easy to forget where and how it all began. The Stonewall Riot in NYC occurred during the year 1969, when continued police harassment at The...
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Another worker got paid after organizing
Brighton Hospitality Workers was approached in May by a Kitchen Porter, at an upmarket and busy restaurant on the seafront, who had been laid off without 7 days’ notice period pay and with unpaid wages...
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Brighton SolFed goes on fighting against wage theft!
Summertime is proving to be a period of intense activity for Brighton-SolFed. We are constantly being contacted by hospitality workers who endure, amongst other forms of exploitation, wage and holiday...
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Fighting for ourselves 101: An example in the University
I work in admin at one of the universities in the city. Recently, one of my colleagues left the department for a new job. It was expected that I would take on some of their workload. This was not...
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Brighton Proud Cabaret: Too proud to pay!
Brighton-SolFed has started a public campaign against Brighton Proud Cabaret. This place, belonging to a company which owns another two venues in London, owes a former worker part of his wages,...
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Self-Education In Action
During a September Saturday Brighton SolFed held a network and skills day covering; the immigration act and healthcare, the attack on benefits, fighting wage theft and anarchists on austerity. This...
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Back to Dover to fight against fascism
On September the 12th, almost 200 people tried to stop a fascist march against refugees in the streets of Dover. The march was made up of more than 200 members from groups such as National Front, South...
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Proud Cabaret dispute closed
The end of the dispute held with Brighton Proud Cabaret after an economical agreement. As we have informed previously, a former chef terminated his employment after being pressured by his manager to go...
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Imperial Hotel does not pay
Brighton SolFed has started a public campaign against Imperial Hotel. This hotel owes a former worker part of his wages, including his notice pay, holiday entitlement, money stolen from his pay, and...
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Campaign Success: A Cafe on Portland Road Pays Up
A few weeks ago, a worker came to us with a dispute over an employer withholding Statutory Sick Pay, notice period pay and outstanding holiday entitlement owed to her.
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Brighton SF opens a dispute against letting agent King & Chasemore
Brighton SolFed has started a dispute against the Hove branch of the letting agency King & Chasemore The agency has stolen the holding deposit of a tenant. SolFed has been trying to find a...
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Imperial Hotel: First picket
Last Saturday 16th November we started the public campaign against Imperial Hotel. The worker, Francesco, contacted Brighton Solfed regarding a serious case of wage theft: this hotel owes him part of...
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Deposit Theft Campaign against King & Chasemore Lettings intensifies
A lettings agency is facing a growing campaign by an aggrieved tenant supported by Brighton Solfed after refusing to pay back a holding deposit. This Saturday saw Solfed redouble our efforts in a...
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Emprise pays up a cleaner before start actions
Last month, the cleaning company Emprise paid one of its former workers after having been contacted by SolFed.
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“They think they can do whatever they want” - a tenant's story
Earlier this month, we helped an international student get back her holding deposit from a lettings agency. Here is the tenant's story.The agency were nice in the beginning, like every other agency....
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Protest against privatisation of ambulance service Brighton
At the end of January some of our members joined a demonstration against the privitisation of another NHS service; patient transport. This ambulance service is being privitised to cut costs by the...
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Jimmy's Restaurant Dispute Escalates
Jimmy's restaurant continues to refuse to repay its former workers over £1500 in stolen holiday pay, nor return their P45s. After contact with the initial three workers, and their friends who either...
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Jimmy's Still Does Not Pay, Action Spreads
After three weeks of action, Jimmy's Restaurant (on the Brighton Marina) is still avoiding their responsibilities. Three former workers are still campaigning to get their holiday pay and their P45...
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Brighton uni: Hands Off Hastings Campus!
The University of Brighton wants to close its campus in Hastings. The closure of the campus would likely mean job losses, and it would be damaging to the town, and to access to Higher Education in the...
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Don't moan - Fight back! Brighton Solfed May Day actions
Anarcho-syndicalism in Brighton: talk and social Saturday 30th April, 6pm at the Cowley ClubDay of action against exploitation Sunday 1st May, 3pm at the Clock Tower
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