THE FATE of 1.2 million workers hangs in the balance.
DRIVERS AT First Buses in South Yorkshire voted on Monday to continue their strike following a ballot on a new offer from the bosses.
A STRIKE ballot of 8,000 TGWU union members at key airports was due to start this week, prompting headlines about holiday misery and chaos.
ABOUT 5,000 people marched in Greenock, near Glasgow, last Saturday against proposals to downgrade Inverclyde Royal Hospital (IRH) and to close Ravenscraig Hospital.
MARTIN IS one of up to 40,000 people who heard last week that their pensions could be snatched away from them.
THE TRAGEDY of New Labour’s draconian asylum policy moved north last Friday night, from Harmondsworth to the Dungavel detention centre in Scotland.
The opposition to Dungavel, a former prison in an isolated part of the South Lanarkshire countryside, has spread across Scotland’s civic organisations.
TONY BLAIR shocked even his own New Labour colleagues last week by appointing his crony Peter Mandelson, the twice-disgraced former minister, to the European Commission.
I AM an assembly line worker of 30 years standing at the Ford Engine Plant, Dagenham. I have taken part in many struggles for better conditions.
THE DIRECTOR in charge of stamping out bullying and harassment at Royal Mail has herself been investigated for bullying, according to the Times newspaper.
THAM SARKI, an asylum seeker from Nepal, is to appear before an immigration appeal tribunal on Tuesday 3 August at 10am at Taylor House, 88 Rosebery Avenue, London EC1 (Angel tube).
