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THE COUNCIL employers have thrown down a major challenge to workers in the fight over London weighting.

ALMOST 40 reps from the Amicus, Bectu and NUJ unions representing Granada workers met with their full time broadcast organisers at the ITV unions' campaign meeting last week.

MEMBERS OF the Bectu broadcasting union have voted to retain the union's affiliation to the Labour Party.

THREE BRANCHES of the RMT rail workers' union want to switch their support from Labour to the Scottish Socialist Party.

MORE STRIKES could soon hit the post, especially in London.

FERRY WORKERS in Dover who were sacked 15 years ago demonstrated last weekend to protest at their treatment.

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.

THE GOVERNMENT has also announced plans to end free bus travel for school students.

A HEAD of steam is building up over creating a left electoral coalition to challenge New Labour at the polls next June. The speakers at a 1,300-strong meeting in London, which called for such a coalition, have now called a national convention to agree and launch it on 25 January next year.

US OCCUPATION military authorities told the world's press they had "killed 46" resistance fighters in the central Iraqi town of Samarra on Sunday.