A million workers or more are on zero hours contracts. The contracts are designed to hold down workers’ wages, denying them holiday pay, sick pay and pensions. And they leave them unsure if they will work no hours or 50 hours in a week.
Voting is underway in the firefighters’ FBU union strike ballot against attacks on their pensions and the fire service. With a decent yes vote expected, firefighters could be on strike in September.
The FBU firefighters union has slammed the news that London Mayor Boris Johnson, has overruled the London Fire Authority and ordered £35 million of cuts.
Supporters of Shaker Aamer—the last Londoner in the Guantanamo Bay prison camp—held a vigil outside the MI6 building in central London on Monday of this week.
RMT union members at East Midlands trains continued action short of a strike last weekend, after judges threw out bosses’ attempt to get an injunction against them.
