Blogs Posts on "Strikes"

THE ROYAL MAIL INTERIM DEAL by Socialist Unity on Nov 6, 2009The CWU’s postal executive yesterday (Thursday) unanimously endorsed the attached agreement. This agreement has been brought about by the strength of the union’s national strike ballot and the overwhelming support for the strikes. CWU/R...

British Airways facing record losses by Global Crisis News on Nov 2, 2009According to City analysts, British Airways is set to face a 252 million pound pre-tax loss for the initial half of this year, due to which it might end a second consecutive year without any profit. 2,500 workers from the cabin crew are slated to at...

Fancy Form Design by CRshare GFX Share Center on Oct 30, 2009Fancy Form Design Publisher: SitePoint | 250 pages | October 1, 2009 | ISBN 0980576849 | PDF | 10 MB Forms’ – is there any other word that strikes as much fear into the hearts of web designers? Not any more … Fancy Form...

LEEDS STRIKERS NOW BEEN OUT FOR SEVEN WEEKS by Socialist Unity on Oct 25, 2009

GALLOWAY - MANAGEMENT ARE TO BLAME FOR THIS ROYAL MAIL STRIKE by Socialist Unity on Oct 22, 2009The last people who want a postal strike are the workers who will lose pay,” says Respect MP George Galloway. “Of course it will massively inconvenience the public as well – I already have constituents who are not receiving benefit cheques or i...

ROYAL MAIL SINK THE BELGRANO by Socialist Unity on Oct 19, 2009There is no doubt that the announcement over the weekend that Royal Mail are looking to recruit 30000 scabs, and that TNT are also gearing up for a strike breaking operation is designed to ratchet up tension. With false naivety the BBC and other news...

Striving For Four Billion Mobile Users, Twitter Strikes SMS Deal With Largest Indian Carrier by Take A Plunge on Oct 15, 2009In general, you use Twitter through its website or through a third-party client that uses its APIs. But twitter also offers tweeting through text messaging which is very important way to reach the widest possible audience. But due to the ridiculous c...

+ Three-Strikes Rule www.jeniwren.com [Flickr] by ..Miss Brightside.. on Oct 13, 2009www.jeniwren.com posted a photo: Digital file-sharing is not going to go away. It is a passion for music which sustains such habits, and yet it is also a passion for music which argues that it cannot go on. Falling sales revenues raises fears that...

National Postal Strike by The Third Estate on Oct 8, 2009Postal Workers in the Communication Workers Union have voted by 74% on a 67% turnout to take industrial action in the coming weeks. There is a great deal to be written about this, in support and in opposition, and no doubt there will be plenty on thi...

The Strike and the Public by The Third Estate on Oct 4, 2009Guest post by Matthew Wood The Communication Workers Union is currently balloting its postal members for national strike action. The ballot will close on 8 October and comes on the back of a summer of one day stoppages which have seen a mail backlog...