The "independent regulator" Postcomm has waded into the current postal dispute.
Postal workers in Heanor, Derbyshire, staged a series of strikes recently against the closure of their office.
Counters workers in the big high street post offices are to strike on two days next week rather than this week. They will strike on Monday 16 July from 2.30pm to 7pm, and Thursday 19 July from 6am to 12 noon.
"This is all about the government. It’s not just Allan Leighton and Adam Crozier – Gordon Brown pulls their strings. It’s Labour that’s attacking us – let’s stop giving them money."
Today, women are working in unprecedented numbers, have broken their chains to the home, thrown out the traditional "feminine" roles, and have choices that our grandmothers couldn’t have imagined.
Ciudad Guyana is not one city but two. Several hundred kilometres south east of the capital Caracas, it is split by a tributary of the Orinoco river. On one side of the bridge is San Felix, a crowded poor town of potholed roads and very basic houses.
Biofuels sound like the perfect way to save the environment and cut spiraling carbon emissions. They are made from plants and leave no nasty waste products. They produce less emissions than fossil fuels and, supporters argue, their emissions are offset by the carbon absorbed by the plants as they are growing.
In Colombia biofuel projects are expanding in different parts of the country – though now we tend to use the term "agrifuels" rather than "biofuels", since the processes used to make them are no more biological than many other energy sources.
The post strike last week showed how Gordon Brown’s pay assault against millions of public sector workers can be stopped almost as it’s launched.
Glasgow At the mail centre in Springburn, the strike began with a walk-out at 4.45am. A driver refused to cross a picket line at the nearby Baird Street delivery office.
At Glasgow Mail Centre, Springburn, the post strike began with a walk-out at 4.45am. A driver refused to cross a picket line at the nearby Baird Street delivery office. Management suspended him and the 20 or so drivers remaining threw in their van keys and walked off their shift there and then. A CWU union rep said that management had been acting like this up and down the country.
A real feeling of strength and unity was to be felt on our picket line today at Leicester North delivery office. We had been waiting for this day for weeks and as one worker put it "this is our day to shove it right up Royal Mail and Gordon Brown".
