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Issue - 2069
Dated - 22 Sep 2007
We’ll pay twice for credit chaos

Working people will have to pay twice over for the credit chaos that struck down mortgage lender Northern Rock this week.

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Strikers want to see the dismantling of Fremantle

Around 200 residential and daycare workers employed by Fremantle in Barnet, north London, were set to strike on Thursday of this week.
24 September 2007
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CWU union announces dates for renewed post strikes

The postal workers’ CWU union has announced a new programme of strikes as part of its dispute with Royal Mail.
20 September 2007
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Gordon Brown has a private agenda on housing

Gordon brown is faced with a major housing crisis and growing support for the fourth option (direct investment to improve existing and build new council homes). Because of this Brown has announced, ahead of Labour Party conference, £500 million for councils which build homes.
18 September 2007
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Glasgow daycare staff to ballot for strike action

Adult daycare staff in Glasgow are balloting to take strike action as the centres they work in face closure.
18 September 2007
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Reports round-up

Housing workers ballot over pay Members of the Unite union at English Church Housing Group (ECHG), part of the Riverside Group, are balloting for action against the company’s 2.5 percent pay offer.
18 September 2007
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Improved pay offer for Chesterfield Stagecoach bus drivers

Bus drivers at Stagecoach’s Chesterfield depot have voted by a substantial majority to accept an improved pay offer.
18 September 2007
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Fujitsu dispute settled

A long-running dispute between the Unite union and IT services company Fujitsu has been settled. Unite members at Fujitsu’s Central Park site in Manchester voted by 99.6 percent on an 89.2 percent turnout to accept the company’s offer for new agreements covering union recognition, redundancy and redeployment rights, pay and benefits.
18 September 2007
Chainmakers’ festival success
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Chainmakers’ festival success

Tony Benn joined over 1,000 trade unionists and activists at the chainmakers’ festival at the Black Country living history museum in Dudley last Saturday.
18 September 2007
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Respect Stonebridge campaign gets results and roots

A systematic campaign that sunk roots across a working class community paid dividends for Respect supporters in Brent, north west London, as they celebrated coming third in a council by-election on Thursday of last week.
18 September 2007
Civil service workers strike at office of Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman
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Civil service workers strike at office of Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman

18 September 2007
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Remploy workers are taking fight to Labour

Disabled workers battling to save Remploy factories are set to join the Unite union demonstration outside the Labour Party conference on Sunday.
18 September 2007
Bob Crow, 'chavs' and the new media snobbery
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Bob Crow, ‘chavs’ and the new media snobbery

The press coverage of the recent tube strike in London took me back to a different time, a time when union leaders seemed to rank a close third – behind the Moors murderers and cop-killer Harry Roberts – as public enemy number one.
18 September 2007