Royal Mail bosses plan to close two of London’s three giant mail centres and a major delivery office.
Charles Atangana has won a six week review of his deportation at a bail hearing in London today. The journalist from Cameroon in West Africa has already been freed from detention in Dover.
Over 6,000 members of the Unite union working at six airports have voted overwhelmingly to strike in protest against the offer of a 1 percent pay "increase".
Leaders of the GMB and Unite unions are recommending that 3,000 British Airways ground crew workers accept a job and pay cutting deal—in the middle of the crucial battle by cabin crew.
Members of the RMT transport union on London Underground have voted overwhelmingly for strikes against 800 job cuts at stations. The workers do vital jobs on platforms, ticket gates and ticket offices.
Charles Atangana, currently detained in Dover Immigration Removal Centre, has a bail hearing on Thursday this week. Charles has lived in Britain since 2004 having been forced to flee Cameroon after detention and threats over his journalism.
BBC workers have started a fightback against management attacks on their pensions.
From April 2011 the BBC proposes that pensionable salaries will grow at a maximum of 1 percent a year, whatever salary increases an employee receivesThe link with inflation will be broken if the bosses win—meaning that if inflation is at 5 percent, pensions will still be held at 1 percent. So just as workers have seen below-inflation pay deals, they will also see their pensions fall far behindBosses took a "contributions holiday" during the boom years and didn’t pay in the company’s share of workers’ pensions
"I have never known such a sense of outrage. BBC staff feel taken for granted and insulted by management.
BBC bosses’ are attacking workers pensions, but theirs are protected. It was revealed last week that a multi-million pound pension slush fund exists for senior BBC executives. The fund saw BBC director general Mark Thompson receive a £163,000 pension top-up last year, while deputy director general Mark Byford stands to receive a £400,000 pension.
"The effects of a crisis created on Wall Street are being used as an excuse by BBC management to launch an attack on workers.
