Some 50 workers from the Cadbury plant in Keynsham, Somerset, travelled to the Bourneville plant in Birmingham on Monday. They protested at plans to close the plant and move the work to Poland. Some 200 jobs are also threatened at Bourneville.
Work and Pensions Secretary Peter Hain found time out from forgetting to declare political donations to axe disabled workers’ jobs in Remploy last week.
Campaigners across Britain have vowed to keep up the fight for Karen Reissmann, the leading health trade unionist from Manchester who has been victimised for fighting cuts and privatisation.
Over 80,000 members of the PCS civil service workers’ union working in the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) are set to strike on Thursday and Friday of this week over pay.
Senior Labour figures are getting into all sorts of trouble for accepting dodgy donations from sleazy businessmen. Strangely enough, Socialist Worker never seems to have these problems.
Gordon Brown’s fundraiser, Jon Mendelsohn, sits in the centre of the crisis over donations to the Labour party.
Across the north east of England people are asking questions about property developments and the role of the Labour Party.
The situation for New Labour is even worse in Scotland. The party’s new leader Wendy Alexander has broken laws introduced by the Labour government banning the receipt of proxy donations and donations by non-British residents.
On Tuesday Peter Hain admitted to a set of donations which should have been declared previously. They arise from a fundraising dinner in April organised by Huw Roberts who became Royal Mail’s director of Welsh affairs in June.
Mahmoud Khayami has given a total of £830,000 to Labour in the past eight months, making him Labour’s biggest individual backer after Lord Sainsbury.
Postal workers in the CWU union have voted by approximately 2 to 1 to accept a deal recommended by their union leadership to end their dispute over pay and conditions.
