While millions of public sector workers are facing deep attacks on their pensions, another group paid from the public purse are being offered further handouts.
While millions of public sector workers are facing deep attacks on their pensions, another group paid from the public purse are being offered further handouts.
Members of the communications team at Tower Hamlets council are being balloted in the coming week by both the National Union of Journalists and the Unison union over the council’s treatment of Unison shop steward and Defend Council Housing campaigner Eileen Short.
Some 300 drivers for First Bus in north Staffordshire and south Cheshire, based in Stoke-on-Trent and Newcastle-under-Lyme, took 24 hour strike action on Friday of last week over pay.
On Thursday of last week, over 230 students at De Montfort University, Leicester, poured into the college’s largest lecture theatre to hear Respect MP George Galloway.
Escalating selective action by workers at Sefton council on Merseyside is set to ratchet up another notch this week. Some 18 workers in the education personnel department are to join 17 in the creditors department already on strike against the victimisation of union activists.
I come from Bamoko in Mali, about 2,000 miles from the Nador in Morocco where I am now. It was the death of my child which made me leave my wife behind, along with my two other children and my father and mother.
Before the recent famine in Niger there was a long period when there were increasingly strong appeals for aid, but nothing happened. We have now reached that time in Malawi — and people have already begun to die.
Health secretary Patricia Hewitt has said she wants £3 billion worth of NHS work to be carried out in the private sector. But because the existing public health system is among the most efficient in the world, the government is having to force the health sector to open up.
