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Some 1,900 workers across six garages then staged two one day official strikes last December. Action forced Centre West to increase its offer. But workers threw out the new 25 pence an hour rise offer...
JOURNEY TO SHILOH (Thurs, 3.30pm, C5). An interesting 1960s Western film. GOODNESS GRACIOUS ME (Fri, 9pm, C4). The return of this great comedy show.
LABOUR SUPPORTERS in London have voted against Tony Blair's handpicked candidate by a margin of over three to one.
Lobby the New Labour chair of the London fire authority Monday 28 February, 6pm
Workplace sales included 22 at Riverside House council office in Greenwich, 10 at De La Rue printers in High Wycombe
AS A residential social worker in a council-run children's home in Merseyside I have been shocked by the report exposing sexual and physical abuse of children in some Welsh care homes...
"PRICECHECK IS the start of the offensive in the battle for union recognition." That is how TGWU general workers' trade union officer Brian Revell described the union's recent recognition dea
"NO PAY cuts" was the chant from around 600 care workers and their supporters across Leicestershire on a march last Saturday...
The two worked in the council's social work department. They were sacked last year after showing solidarity with a colleague, Roddy Slorach...
"I DID very well in the ballot of Labour Party members in London." That was Frank Dobson's amazing claim after it was announced that he had beaten Ken Livingstone
VOTERS IN Iran have overwhelmingly chosen candidates who stood for reform of the present system. Parliamentary elections held last week saw reform candidates win in all the major cities...
ON TUESDAY the toll of children who have died due to debt this year reached one million.
A DAMNING report by safety inspectors last week exposed some of the truth about Britain's nuclear industry
UNDER CAPITALISM the beach is a paradise where we go to escape. For the Fox studio, however, paradise is The Beach, a film with Leonardo DiCaprio...
THE SILVER Tassie is a powerful anti-war play written by the Irish socialist Sean O'Casey. O'Casey's plays brought home the reality of life in Dublin's slums at the start of the last century...
THE HOUSE of Commons transport committee last week savaged the government's plan to privatise air traffic control services as "the worst of all possible options
"This is devastating. No one knows who is for the chop. I'll lose my house if my job goes. Or it will be somebody else. That's food out of kids' mouths. Look at the Labour Party, all fighting for one
Lobby the New Labour chair of the London fire authority Monday 28 February, 6pm
THE government last week called for "pay restraint" to stop the economy overheating, and then promptly ignored its own advice...