THE COUNCIL employers have thrown down a major challenge to workers in the fight over London weighting.
MEMBERS OF the Bectu broadcasting union have voted to retain the union's affiliation to the Labour Party.
AROUND 150 bin workers in north Lanarkshire in Scotland struck on Friday of last week. They are set to escalate strike action after council chiefs hired scab labour.
CIVIL SERVANTS in job centres and benefit offices across London walked out on strike on Thursday and Friday of last week in fury at the government imposing a pay offer.
TUBE WORKERS were set to strike a blow for safety and against privatisation with a two-day go-slow next week.
TONY BLAIR PRIME MINISTER Private school, then Oxford University for free
"LEAVE THE country or I'll snatch your children." That was the threat this week from home secretary David Blunkett to refugees in Britain. He wants to rob parents of their children and their meagre benefits to force refugees out of the country.
OVER FIVE million people in Britain are working unpaid overtime, according to a TUC survey released this week. As a result bosses save £23 billion a year. The average amount done by the workers was an extra day-7 hours 24 minutes-a week. They should get £4,500 a year in extra earnings.
