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The Socialist 9 December 2009

Bail out our jobs, not greedy bankers

Corus steel closure: 'Bail out our jobs, not greedy bankers'

Nationalise Corus Steel

Youth Fight for Jobs campaigners speak out on Corus closure

Socialist nationalisation - the only way to save manufacturing jobs and end the bank bonus scandal

Teesside steel: No trust in big business 'solutions'

End the war in Afghanistan

Climate change summit: Coming up short in Copenhagen

Free the Tamil boat people

Fight the political witch-hunt in Unison

Fast news

Youth Fight for Jobs organises demo in Barking

New Labour gift wraps Tyne and Wear Metro

Stoke Axiom workers escalate the action

Save jobs at Borders

Twinings workers fight job losses

Management bullying? Surely not...

Uniting to stop cuts at Sussex

Starting Socialist Students at a Coventry sixth form

No to student civic service

Northampton protest against student loan delays

The legacy of Charles Darwin

Solidarity with striking South African miners

Scotland: The national question and the general election

English Defence League show themselves up

Christmas 2009 donation appeal

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Save jobs at Borders

Over 1,100 workers may face redundancy as book chain Borders UK went into administration on 26 November 2009.

Insolvency firm MCR state they wish "to sell the business as a going concern". However, closing down sales are being advertised for all stores.

Camden Socialist Party member Dave Convery, who recently stopped working at Borders, said that previous owners ran the company into the ground with staff and stock not being replaced.

A management buyout took place in July and rehiring and restocking started again. But staff remained on pitiful wages, many earning just £5.80 per hour.

The company's failure is not the fault of workers. Management should open the company's books for public scrutiny so we can see where the money has gone.

Borders workers have been faced with silence by management. They expect to be cheated out of pay and jobs, as the owners make for the exit with their wallets intact.