The Socialist 21 July 2010

Warning: NHS under attack

Warning: NHS under attack

Youth and students: organise to fight for a future

Class struggles on the rise

Stand united, fight the cuts!

Lessons of the cuts

Education workers must teach Tories a lesson

Fast news

Union recommends BT pay deal

Stop the courts closures

Wales: No to fire service cuts

Strike action wins at Tube Lines

Swansea Linamar

Cuts blogger!

PCS: a strategy to stop the cuts

TUC refuses national demo

Unite the struggle to defend pensions

Con-Dems propose denationalisation of the NHS

The Socialist Party needs you!

More join the Socialist Party in Yorkshire

Funding the socialist fightback

Building new workers' parties and the tasks of socialists

Egypt: Thousands protest over brutal police killing

Harder work, longer hours... All part and parcel?

A testing 'pudding' for councillors

Keep probation services public

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Cuts blogger!

Members of the FBU in London were disgusted when brigade chief Ron Dobson threatened them with the sack on his blog! The London FBU has been in dispute with management for some months over threats to impose changes to shift patterns. Now Dobson has blogged that he will recommend in a paper to be put to political bosses that they terminate the contract of every firefighter if no agreement is reached.

FBU regional official Paul Embery said: "We've heard stories of companies sacking employees by text, but this must be the first time an employer has threatened to sack people by personal blog. Our members are dedicated, and in many cases very longstanding, employees of the London Fire Brigade. They have devoted their entire careers to protecting the people of London. So for them to turn up for work and be told by their boss, via his personal blog, that they will be sacked if their union does not agree to these detrimental changes is an absolute outrage."

The union has committed to issuing an immediate London-wide strike ballot if changes are imposed.

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