TSSA members employed by the underground infrastructure company Tube Lines will be taking strike action from 9am to 5pm on Tuesday 07 Sept 2010. These are predominantly managers, senior managers and clerical grades on performance related pay contracts.
Talks aimed at averting a series of strikes by London Underground workers from next week have broken down and the industrial action will now go ahead as planned.
The scale of the cuts announced today beggars belief and staff across the country today will be left reeling from this news.
Talks at conciliation service ACAS got underway today as 10,000 members of London Underground's two biggest unions begin final preparations for a rolling series of strikes starting on Monday September 6 against plans to axe 800 station and other staff and close ticket-offices. RMT said this morning that there can be no compromise on tube safety and safe staffing levels.
Wed, 01 Sep 2010 14:54:00 GMT
The NASUWT comments on the roll-out of the Welsh Assembly Government’s flagship Foundation Phase policy to all five and six year olds
Community sentences can be cost - effective alternative to prison, given right resources
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Wed, 01 Sep 2010 09:33:00 GMT
Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, the largest teachers’ union, has condemned the subterfuge and secrecy the Coalition Government has employed to seek to press schools into becoming academies.
The joint unions, BECTU, the NUJ and Unite have today welcomed the overwhelming backing of union members in the BBC for the unions’ campaign against drastic cuts to staff pensions.
Plans to privatise one of the country’s leading pathology services at London’s King’s College Hospital are being opposed by Unite.