This video from Britain is called Royal Mail strike 2009, two sides to every story.
Post workers have intensified the resistance with a second mass strike against bosses’ attacks on their jobs and their union: here.
Postal workers up and down Britain continued their rolling strike action on Friday with over 78,000 union members walking out: here.
The GMB union has set up a phone hotline for the public to report law-breaking by employment agencies supplying scab labour during the Royal Mail dispute: here.
Bristol postal workers have joined the national strike in their fifth bout of industrial action: here.
Postal worker’s blog: here.
Transport union RMT has threatened industrial action against Network Rail after exposing the company’s intention to sack its entire maintenance workforce of 13,000 and re-employ a reduced number on inferior contracts: here.
Unions have urged MPs to start treating the unemployed as victims of the recession rather than “work-shy scroungers” after it was revealed that Britain’s economy shrank for a record sixth quarter in a row between July and September: here.
Regressive changes to the welfare system coming into effect on Monday will force 68,000 single parents with children aged 10 or over to look for work or risk losing benefits: here.
An emergency meeting of British Airways cabin crew has been called to decide whether to fight plans to cut jobs, freeze pay and introduce worse wages and conditions for new staff, the Unite union has said: here.
Talks between the GMB union and ground-handling firm Swissport at Stansted airport over job losses and new shifts have reached a stalemate: here.
Hundreds of South Yorkshire firefighters and bus drivers have walked out on strike in separate disputes over working conditions: here.
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