New Labour is in crisis and it is responding by increasing attacks on ordinary people—including slashing jobs, attacking public services and freezing pay.
Postal workers across south west London piled pressure on Royal Mail this morning by taking an extra day of action on top of yesterday’s capital-wide strike.
Post workers in London in the CWU union are so fed up with the way they have been treated by the government that activists have launched a consultative ballot to see if members want to continue supporting the Labour party.
New Labour is in crisis and it is responding by increasing attacks on ordinary people—including slashing jobs, attacking public services and freezing pay.
The government is to hand over schools to businesses—for free. It announced this week that it is dropping the requirement for academy sponsors to make a donation to take over schools.
Strikes by postal workers in many parts of Britain are hitting Royal Mail hard, with millions of letters and packets clogging up mail centres and sorting offices.
Gordon Brown’s support for the poisonous "British jobs for British workers" slogan went up a little further this week when the government announced new employment rules.
Around 100 workers at the Two Sisters poultry processing firm in Smethwick, in the West Midlands, have been taking all out strike action against racism.
Rail workers at London Midland hit back at their penny-pinching bosses last week by refusing to work on Sunday after the company decided to axe double pay.
