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Issue - 1997
Dated - 22 Apr 2006
85,000 civil servants set to strike to stop Brown’s cuts

Around 85,000 workers in the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) are set to strike again on 2 and 3 May against government plans to slash 40,000 jobs.

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85,000 civil servants set to strike to stop Brown’s cuts

Around 85,000 workers in the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) are set to strike again on 2 and 3 May against government plans to slash 40,000 jobs.
22 April 2006
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Respect taps into the deep anger in Tower Hamlets

Dozens of Respect supporters joined a car cavalcade that wove through the streets of Tower Hamlets, east London, last Sunday, capping an Easter weekend of hard campaigning in the borough for the 4 May local elections.
22 April 2006
Respect round-up
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Respect round-up

Candidates protest against Birmingham NHS cuts Some 25 people joined a hurriedly arranged protest against job losses and ward closures in City Hospital in Handsworth, Birmingham, last week.
22 April 2006
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Who Says?

Who says?

"How are we supposed to get rid of the helipad now? Can you imagine taking a jackhammer to the remains of one of the most important cities in the history of mankind? This is Babylon."Donny George, head of Iraq’s board of antiquities after US contractors paved over the archeological site to create a helipad
22 April 2006
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What We Think

Hodge has no solutions to racism or poverty

Margaret Hodge, New Labour’s employment minister and MP for Barking & Dagenham in east London, claimed last Sunday that eight out of ten white families in her constituency are tempted to vote for the fascist British National Party (BNP).
22 April 2006
Labour Lords a-leaping
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Labour Lords a-leaping

‘We are being upfront about this. If they the donors were willing to give the time, effort and money to support the academies programme, we wanted to put them in the Lords." So runs Downing Street’s bullish defence of its conduct in the "cash for peerages" scandal.
22 April 2006
25,000 lecturers to strike
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25,000 lecturers to strike

Further education lecturers in England and Wales are gearing up for their two-day strike over pay. Natfhe, the lecturers’ union, represents the 25,000 FE lecturers who will be striking on 2 and 3 May.
22 April 2006
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NUT conference: anger and a mood for action in the schools

The National Union of Teachers (NUT) annual conference took place in Torquay over the Easter weekend.
22 April 2006
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Reports round-up

Rail workers win ballot for action More than 400 platform workers in the RMT ­rail workers’ union have voted by six to one for action over cuts in the number of station staff on duty on South Eastern Trains.
22 April 2006
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British Airways Unions will formally reject British Airways’ (BA) plans to alter pension arrangements at a meeting on 26 April.
22 April 2006
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HMRC Lothians walk out in fight for decent conditions

Some 950 PCS members working for Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HMRC) in the large processing centre at Lothians in Scotland struck on Thursday of last week over the deskilling of work.
22 April 2006
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National day of action against the Nazis

Unite Against Fascism is organising a national day of action against the British National Party (BNP) on Sunday 30 April.
22 April 2006