Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) announced last week that up to 2,300 jobs are to go in Britain.
Leading bankers were finally forced to say "sorry" for their part in the economic crisis when they were brought before a Treasury select committee hearing last week.
The contrast couldn’t be starker. Bankers who have helped to wreck the economy are handed billions of pounds of public money and left to keep raking in their fat salaries.
Some in the leadership of the union movement seem determined to run the fight against the recession into a dead end.
Some people may find Unite’s failure to fight over jobs such as those at Cowley confusing.
Agency workers are paid much less than their directly employed counterparts. There are an estimated 1.4 million agency workers in Britain.
Management tell the workers of shift C "yellow" Mini production at BMW's Cowley plant that they are sacked at the end of a night shift on the morning of 16 February 2009. This video immediately precedes the one circulating yesterday
A Unite union meeting with agency workers who produce minis at BMW's plant at Cowley, Oxford. The workers of shift C "yellow" have just heard they are to be sacked in 30 minutes, 16 February 2009
The banning of Dutch film maker Geert Wilders from Britain has led to renewed arguments about free speech. Last year Maina van der Zwan from Socialist Worker's Dutch sister organisation examined his Islamophobic film, Fitna, describing it as, "a disgusting piece of racist propaganda which resembles Der Ewige Jude (The Eternal Jew), a film Nazis used in 1940 to 'expose' the Jews of Europe".
The recession is spreading fear through Whitehall as it threatens the government’s plans for the NHS.
As one part of NHS privatisation hits the rocks, the government is ploughing ahead with others.
Workers protesting at the Lindsey Oil Refinery in Lincolnshire returned to work on Monday of this week after management promised an additional 102 jobs would be made available to "British" workers.
