Editorial
Hands off our postal service
A government guided by common sense would respond to news that publicly owned Royal Mail has increased profits to £403 million by scrapping plans to flog off the service.
Features
Trade unionists will keep fighting for Wales
Wales TUC president sets out the achievements of Welsh workers over the past year - and looks to the battles ahead
Dirty wars
Interview with Jeremy Scahill, author of a chilling new exposé of the US's worldwide war without end
Britain
Farmers' union voices fears over free-range chicken status and avian flu
Tuesday 23 August 2005
THE National Farmers' Union complained yesterday that British eggs could lose their free-range status if chickens are kept indoors to stop them catching avian flu.
Ronseal workers refuse to accept miserly pay
Tuesday 23 August 2005
FURIOUS workers at Ronseal unanimously backed industrial action yesterday, following another miserly pay offer from the Sheffield paint manufacturer.
Jury debates gas explosion negligence case
Tuesday 23 August 2005
JURY members began deliberations yesterday in a negligence case against gas firm Transco, which has become one of the longest in Scottish legal history.
Anti-extremism plan could cause injustice
Tuesday 23 August 2005
CIVIL rights campaigners warned yesterday that Charles Clarke could be paving the way for miscarriages of justice when he implements his promised "crackdown" on Islamist extremists this week.
RMT concern over Eurostar security claims
Tuesday 23 August 2005
RAIL union RMT expressed concern yesterday, after Eurostar claimed that a pay strike at its London and Ashford terminals would have "little effect" on operations.
Morrisons staff fear closure of depots
Tuesday 23 August 2005
INDUSTRY union GMB accused supermarket giant Morrisons management yesterday of having "secret plans" to axe key distribution depots.
Modernisation is stretching A&E departments
Tuesday 23 August 2005
HEALTH union UNISON warned that new Labour's rapid push to "modernise" the health service has left some areas of Britain without Accident and Emergency departments.
Crowded prisons prompt suicides
Tuesday 23 August 2005
PRISON reform campaigners demanded yesterday that jail sentences be given only to violent or dangerous prisoners, as the number of suicides in custody continued to soar.
Rolls-Royce workers defy bosses' threats
Tuesday 23 August 2005
ANGRY engineering workers at Rolls-Royce defied bosses' threats and walked out on indefinite strike yesterday over the victimisation and sacking of a union official.