Workers at a French car accessories plant north of Paris have threatened to blow up their factory unless they are given better redundancy pay-offs.
Around 500 British Airways cabin crew gathered at the Trades Union Congress (TUC) building in central London on Tuesday evening, to mark the end of their four-day strike.
The High Court has granted Network Rail an injunction against next week’s planned strike by signalling workers in the RMT transport union. The four-day strike by thousands of maintenance workers in the RMT and TSSA unions against the slashing of 1,500 safety-critical jobs from Tuesday is still to go ahead, as far as union activists are aware.
Cabin crew at British Airways want more strikes to finish off bullying boss Willie Walsh.
Trade unions in Denmark, Norway and Sweden are giving legal notice that they will take action in support of British Airways cabin crew. The five unions – Sweden’s SEKO and Swedish Transport Workers’ Union, Denmark’s 3F and Norway’s Parat and Norwegian Transport Workers’ Union – have acted in response to a call for lawful solidarity action made by the International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF).
Former Ford/Visteon workers marched to parliament today to highlight Ford’s continuing refusal to honour their pension agreements.
The media has largely ignored evidence of British military torture used in Iraq, despite 47 claims of abuse against the government going before the courts.
The Labour government lied about the deaths of Iraqis held by British troops.
The police keep attacking demonstrations. The targets include the recent anti-fascist mobilisation in Bolton, last year’s protests against Israel’s war in Gaza and the demonstrations against the G20 in London.
