TRADE UNIONS have begun to book coaches for the rally called by the TUC and the National Pensioners Convention in London on 19 June. It will see thousands, perhaps tens of thousands, of trade unionists show their anger over pensions-an issue which is becoming more important by the day.
\"THEY TREAT us like slaves. It is almost criminal.\" Those were the words of one striking worker at the Euro Packaging factory in Highgate, Birmingham. In the first week of a 48-hour walkout and overtime ban, expected to last for the next eight weeks, up to 200 workers walked out over poor pay, working conditions and threatened redundancies.
PARENTS AT Craven Park Primary School in Hackney, east London have won an absolutely stunning victory in their battle to save the school. Two months ago we were told that the school must close by July, and that our kids would be dispersed across the borough.
COLLEGE LECTURERS in the Natfhe union are set to strike across London on Thursday of this week. The strike follows a 77 percent vote for action to demand £4,000 London weighting in further education colleges. Colleges across London are facing recruitment problems because young lecturers cannot afford to stay in overpriced London housing.
AROUND 150 delegates attended the annual Bectu broadcasting workers' union conference in Liverpool last weekend. The conference agreed that Bectu would support future anti-war demonstrations and to donate money to the Stop the War Coalition.
'I WAS suspended at the beginning of November last year after allegations were made regarding my behaviour on the picket line during last year's big unofficial strikes. I was then dismissed on 30 December. John Farnan, the union's divisional rep for the Anglia region, represented me during the disciplinary hearing, and did an excellent job. But, after taking my 15 years service (and clean conduct record) into account, the investigating manager still summarily dismissed me.
CHRIS BARRETT'S case has been plastered over the media since he was sacked. He was accused of playing squash while off sick with an injured ankle, but it was clear from the start that London Underground wanted a high-profile scalp as part of an offensive against tube workers and their unions.
THE BIGGEST industrial dispute under Blair has burst into flames again just as he is hammered by events in Iraq. The Fire Brigades Union (FBU) conference this week voted to withdraw immediately from implementing the \"modernisation\" package that forms the settlement for last year's pay fight. The union is now reinstating a ban on overtime, abandoned as part of that deal.
RAGE AGAINST bullying managers swept through the civil service last week as hundreds of members of the PCS union walked out on unofficial strike action against victimisation. Their action came as the union leadership stepped up the dispute in the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), planning a new series of national strikes.
IRAQ 2004: Blair claimed that he would bring human rights to Iraq. This picture shows US troops torturing an Iraqi in Saddam Hussein's old torture chamber. On page five we prove that British troops are also involved in torture. The brutality and killing will continue until we...
\"MAN U Suicide Bomb Plot\" screamed the Sun two weeks ago. \"It was our tireless police and security service who foiled a terrorist plot to blow up\" Manchester United's Old Trafford ground the following Saturday, ran the editorial.
TOP BRITISH companies have dodged their taxes to the tune of £1 billion. Thirty companies are being investigated for their tax avoidance schemes. Accountancy firms such as Ernst & Young devise the schemes and sell them to companies.
