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AGENCY workers at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) began a two-day walkout today in their fight for union recognition and against the changing of pay dates.
PCS members contracted by Interserve to clean the FCO’s Croydon offices began their strike in response to the company’s refusal to recognise PCS as a representative body.
The dispute also relates to the company’s imposition of payday changes from being weekly to monthly, which workers claim has seen some staff losing money.
Ben Chacko talks to RMT leader EDDIE DEMPSEY about how the key to fixing broken Britain lies in collective sectoral bargaining, restoring unions’ ability to take solidarity strike action and bringing about the much-vaunted ‘wave of insourcing’
SOLOMON HUGHES highlights a 1995 Sunday Times story about the disappearance of ‘defecting Iraqi nuclear scientist.’ Even though the story was debunked, it was widely repeated across the mainstream press, creating the false – and deadly – narrative of Iraqi WMD that eventually led to war