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Issue - 2073
Dated - 20 Oct 2007
Private armies free to kill in Iraq

They kill with impunity. Gun down civilians, devastate families and spread terror. Yet they are beyond the law.

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Leeds Housing Workers Strike
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Leeds Housing Workers Strike

Members of Unison union, who work for Belle Isle Tenant Management Organisation (Bitmo) in Leeds, took one day of strike action last Monday.
19 October 2007
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Post workers should ‘Reject the deal, keep fighting until we win’

The deal discussed by the union’s postal executive on Monday and Tuesday would sweep away crucial rights, steal our pensions, clear the way for more bullying, and give managers even more power to order us about.
17 October 2007
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Health cuts fuel superbug crisis

Last week’s Healthcare Commission report into patient deaths at the Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS trust is truly shocking.
16 October 2007
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Suspended for speaking out

Karen Reissmann, the Manchester psychiatric nurse at the centre of a long running industrial dispute, was suspended for speaking out against a cuts and privatisation plan not very different to those that proved so disastrous at Maidstone and Tunbridge.
16 October 2007
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Reports round-up

Workers at end of their tether Workers at a rope and wire manufacturing company in Lanarkshire have struck over pay.
16 October 2007
Leon Kuhn: Washing their hands
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Leon Kuhn: Washing their hands

16 October 2007
Glasgow day centre workers on indefinite strike
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Glasgow day centre workers on indefinite strike

Some 220 day centre workers in Glasgow began an indefinite strike on Tuesday of this week.
16 October 2007
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Labour builds attack on the public sector

Gordon Brown’s government is determined to hold down public sector pay to to 2 percent over the next three years.
16 October 2007
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Action in local government can beat Brown

All Gordon Brown’s rhetoric about building more homes and his supposed commitment to equality were shown to be hollow by the spending review.
16 October 2007
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Health service spending growth

The announced annual spending growth of 4 percent above inflation for the next three years is still barely half the 7.4 percent that the NHS has received for the last five years.
16 October 2007
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£30 billion in cuts in civil service

Over 250,000 civil service workers in the PCS union are balloting over whether to take further industrial action.
16 October 2007
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Education spending will be ‘experienced as a cut’

Education spending in England will rise on average by 2.8 percent a year in real terms between 2007-08 and 2010-11.
16 October 2007