Monthly Archives: November 2005
ON Monday September 12 the TUC Annual Congress was lobbied by 300 of the over 700 locked out Gate Gourmet workers. The Congress then passed the following resolution unanimously committing ‘the General Council and affiliates to support members at Gate Gourmet by all legal means and to unite trade unionists...
The Palestinian National Authority (PNA) has appealed to the international community to force Israel to stop carving up the West Bank into Bantustans. Meanwhile, Syria has called on the Arab League to call an urgent summit to adopt a pro-Damascus stance to counter international pressure imposed on the country following the...
WELL over 100 locked out Gate Gourmet workers were picketing yesterday near to Heathrow airport. TGWU member Manny Odedra told News Line: ‘The people the company has unfairly selected for compulsory redundancy are all hard working and they want their jobs back. ‘They have all appealed and they have their...
The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) yesterday began a legal challenge to government plans to privatise the NHS by abolishing the role of Primary Care Trusts. The RCN launched an application to be granted permission to apply for a judicial review of the government’s failure to carry out public consultation...
THE Royal College of Nursing, the nurses trade union, yesterday announced that it is seeking a judicial review to force the Blair government to carry out a public consultation on the government’s proposals to end the role of Primary Care Trusts as providers of health services in 2008. Instead, they...
Lower than expected college funding poses a severe threat to adult education and those who provide it, warns the latest edition of public sector union, UNISON’s U magazine. It says: ‘A funding crisis in further education is undermining the government’s once impressive agenda on adult learning – with the potential...