The support for the appeal to trade unionists, and the mood among postal workers in their strikes and among civil service workers at consultation meetings, shows there is a growing clamour for united action among trade unionists.
The PCS civil service workers’ union is in the middle of a huge consultation process, discussing the next stage of its campaign against 100,000 job losses, low pay and privatisation.
the Airport firm BAA this week failed to win a draconian injunction that would have banned up to five million people from a vast geographical area around Heathrow airport.
The ballot for strike action to defend leading health union activist Karen Reissmann – who has been suspended from her job as a psychiatric nurse – is tapping into a wider mood of anger at the Manchester mental health trust that employs her.
The appeal to trade unionists launched by Jane Loftus, president of the CWU postal workers’ union, and Sue Bond, vice president of the PCS civil service workers’ union, is winning wide support.
Top Royal Mail bosses are getting huge bonuses—but they don’t want us to know how much. Details of top salaries and bonuses will be included in Royal Mail’s annual report that was due out in May—but still has not been published.
Disputes are growing in London over management provocations in delivery offices.
RAIl GROUNDSTAFF at the EWS freight depot by the huge Corus steelworks at Margam in south Wales began a 24 hour strike this morning. They are fightng moves to cut the workforce in half.
Hartlepool delivery office walked out yesterday after management intimidation of a worker.
Hungarian workers at a pizza franchise in Derby, who took home virtually no pay for months because of wage deductions, have been sacked and now face eviction from their homes.
Former British National Party council candidate Robert Cottage has been jailed for two and a half years after stockpiling explosive chemicals.
