FIFTY TWO people attended a public meeting called by firefighters in Islington, north London, last week to protest at plans to remove ten appliances from inner London and shut a station.
THE GUERRILLA warfare in many delivery offices over the last few months over the £26.28 a week bonus may be coming to an end. And, in general, our side has had the best of it.
MIDLAND MAINLINE train services ground to a halt last Sunday as the company’s own tight-fisted employment policy came back to haunt it.
HUNDREDS OF workers at Interbrew’s four breweries in Britain are to ballot for industrial action after the company refused to accept national bargaining with unions.
WORKERS AT Jaguar’s Browns Lane plant in Coventry have voted against strike action in their fight to keep their plant open.
AROUND 130 Amicus and RMT union members at the Alstom Manchester Traincare depot in Longsight, Manchester, struck again on Friday of last week.
A 300-strong demonstration against the loss of 104,000 civil service jobs took place in Dunfermline, Gordon Brown’s constituency, last Saturday. The protest was organised by the PCS civil service workers’ union.
SOCIAL WORKERS from Liverpool’s children and families team are set to start their fifth month on strike on Christmas Day. The action by 140 members of the Unison union is one of the longest all-out strikes in the last decade.
WYTHENSHAWE HOSPITAL in Manchester saw a moving scene last week when Rose Gentle met Iraqi orphan Aysha Saleem.
LABOUR was set to announce on Thursday of this week that it was going to ruin the old age of millions of workers. The government plans to increase the retirement age of public sector workers from 60 to 65 and scrap the final salary pension scheme, which guarantees workers security in their old age.
LAWYERS FOR David Blunkett, the home secretary, will go to court this Friday to ask for a delay before deciding on the extradition of three bankers wanted by the US on fraud charges related to the Enron scandal.
