11 April 2012

East London and the Olympics

2012 is the year that London hosts the Olympics, the greatest sporting event in the world. The event has been promoted as bringing great opportunity and hope to those working and living in the surrounding boroughs...

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Bus workers demonstrate over pay, photo Paul Mattsson

11 April 2012

Bus workers prepare to fight for Olympic payment

More than nine out of ten London bus workers in Unite voted yes in a consultative ballot for action last month

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15 March 2012

Them & Us

A4e's champagne lifestyle: Conferences in Monaco, £200-a-head nights out, £800 meals - that's the lifestyle afforded by top executives at disgraced workfare company A4e...

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7 March 2012

Workplace news in brief

Stagecoach bus drivers win victory: Stagecoach South Yorkshire bus drivers in Barnsley and Rotherham have won a significant victory in their fight for higher pay...

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22 February 2012

Them & Us

Very Inappropriate Priorities: 14,000 athletes, 7,000 technical officials, more than 20,000 media and eleven million spectators will descend on London this summer for the 2012 Olympics...

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8 February 2012

Them & Us

Clever clogs: How many of you have had 'the look'? 'The look' from Tories who pity socialists for 'not understanding' how the world 'really' works. A trait no doubt picked up from the Eton-Oxbridge clique

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30 January 2012

London Docklands transport workers win Olympics deal

Serco Docklands, operator of the Docklands Light Railway, agreed to a 25% rise in the standard overtime rate for about 550 of its employees. London RMT organiser Steve Hedley comments on this deal

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26 January 2012

Rail union RMT secures £2,500 Olympics pay deal on Docklands Light Railway (DLR)

Transport union RMT has secured a ground breaking Olympics pay deal on DLR worth £2,500 made up of a guaranteed attendance payment of £900 and guaranteed overtime payments for all staff throughout the Olympic and Paralympic games...

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Stop blacklisting on the Olympics: reinstate Frank Morris, photo Suzanne Beishon

1 March 2011

Stop blacklisting on the Olympics: reinstate Frank Morris

A lively protest of trade unionists brought movement of vehicles onto the Olympic site to a halt in protest at the sacking of RMT member Frank Morris for exposing the use of a blacklist

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4 August 2010

Save Wanstead Flats

The Metropolitan Police intend to have a police station on Wanstead Flats, a large area of common land touching three east London boroughs...

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