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23 November 2011
Rock bottom: Northern Rock, the failed bank rescued by the previous Labour government, has been sold off on the cheap to Virgin Money by the Con-Dems...
23 November 2011
Northern Rock and Branson's present
The latest Con-Dem jape is to con the long suffering taxpayer who will stump up £13 a head to give Richard Branson the 'good' part of Northern Rock, writes Tony Mulhearn
16 June 2010
Northern Rock throws workers on the dole
Northern Rock workers are stunned to hear that the bank is now planning another round of job cuts. Last week workers were hit by a redundancy bombshell of 650 job losses out of 4,500 staff. This works...
2 April 2008
Capitalism gambles with our lives
FSA Northern Rock report: WHEN NORTHERN Rock collapsed last year, the Financial Services Authority (FSA) set up an internal review of its regulation of the bank, writes Kevin Parslow.
2 April 2008
End Labour's 'them and us' society
You could not make it up. Disgraced former Northern Rock chief executive Adam Applegarth will get a payout of £760,000!
25 March 2008
Northern Rock: Workers 'gutted' at the scale of job losses
Northern Rock's announcement of 2,000 job cuts - around one-third of its workforce - has numbed workers, writes Elaine Brunskill, Newcastle Socialist Party.
19 February 2008
Northern Rock - Labour's reluctant nationalisation
The Socialist Editorial The nationalisation of Northern Rock was met with howls of outrage from some of its shareholders, who screamed about 'theft' and 'immorality'. This was a major blow against the concept of an unfettered market-driven economy...
12 February 2008
IF BRANSON'S Virgin group succeed in taking over Northern Rock, possibly 1,000 jobs, out of a 6,000 workforce nationally, could be lost...
17 January 2008
Nationalise Northern Rock - permanently
THE LABOUR government is still desperate to find a private-sector buyer for Northern Rock, despite having shored up the bank to the tune of £50 billion (over half the NHS budget)...
22 November 2007
Nationalise Northern Rock permanently to safeguard workers' interests
Editorial: WHEN THE Northern Rock bank went into crisis in September, the socialist unequivocally called for its nationalisation...
20 September 2007
Crisis will hit north east jobs
NORTHERN ROCK'S headquarters are in Gosforth, near Newcastle, and they employ around 4,700 people in North-Eastern England... By Elaine Brunskill
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