Bailiffs acting on behalf of the Vestas management have served workers occupying the company’s plant in the Isle of Wight with papers of eviction, which will come into force at 12noon tomorrow.
For videos of the protest go to » www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3_md0kl_kI and »www.youtube.com/watch?v=OeD4vIK4l8k
London bus workers in the Unite union created a stir by invading Transport For London’s (TFL) office in Southwark today as part of a protest demanding central pay bargaining across all the city’s bus operators.
The attack began at dawn today and lasted until late afternoon. Under a hail of metal bolts and stones from Ssangyong company thugs, liquid tear gas dropped from police helicopters, incessant loud music and an all-out assault by police commandos armed with steel pipes and taser guns, the occupying workers at the Ssangyong auto factory in Pyongtaek, South Korea, have held out for one more day.
Edinburgh council attempted to use contract labour to break a crucial industrial dispute by refuse workers. But it failed.
Around 1,300 council workers in Glasgow are set to begin an all-out strike on Monday of next week.
Some 600 workers at Enterprise-Liverpool, the private company responsible for street cleaning and maintenance in the city, are set to strike for an hour a day every day from Tuesday of next week. They are in dispute over pay and conditions.
The Fight for the Right to Work campaign organised a successful public meeting in Kilmarnock last week to take the fight to save jobs at the Johnnie Walker whisky plant, which is owned by Diageo, into the town.
The government has hailed its recent bloody offensive in the Helmand province of Afghanistan a "success"—despite the high death toll for soldiers and civilians.
The British army charged Lance Corporal Joe Glenton with desertion at the preliminary hearing of his court martial this week.
In mid-June Gordon Brown announced that there would be a "non-judgmental", behind-closed-doors inquiry into the Iraq war, conducted by hand-picked insiders.
New evidence has emerged in the case of Binyam Mohamed, a former terror suspect who says he was interrogated and tortured with the complicity of MI5.
