The second day of a UK-wide rail strike resulted in a skeleton service across Scotland and industrial action is now looming on Edinburgh’s tram network. Footfall at train stations was much lower and while some people were forced back into their cars the early indications were that many commuters worked …
Read More »The union fat cats who make four-times their members’ salaries
A group of union leaders threatening to spark a summer of discontent in Britain are raking in six-figure pay deals – some four-times higher than the workers they are leading to the picket line – MailOnline can reveal. Analysis shows how union chiefs are taking home staggering salaries, topped up …
Read More »Devastated bride-to-be searched bins after Royal Mail sent wedding dress to wrong house
A distraught bride-to-be says she has been searching through wheelie bins since her dream wedding dress vanished after being delivered to the wrong address. Sheep farmer Katie Sugg said her vintage 1940s gown was delivered and signed for at an address two miles away from her home in Brownsfield, Lichfield …
Read More »Art Industry News: Jewish Groups Call on Germany’s Culture Minister and Documenta’s Director to Resign Over Antisemitic Art Controversy + Other Stories
Art Industry News is a daily digest of the most consequential developments coming out of the art world and art market. Here’s what you need to know on this Thursday, June 23. NEED TO READ Fort Worth’s National Juneteenth Museum Takes Shape – The vision of Opal Lee, the 95-year-old …
Read More »New stamps celebrate 50 years of pride – Swansea Bay News
Royal Mail today revealed images of a new set of eight, vibrantly illustrated stamps, being issued to mark the 50th anniversary of the UK’s first Pride rally that took place on 1 July 1972. Issued exactly 50 years to the day, the stamps celebrate the march that took place from …
Read More »Royal Mail says there is no grounds for a strike by workers
Royal Mail says there is no grounds for a strike by workers CalendarAn icon of a desk calendar.CancelAn icon of a circle with a diagonal line across.CaretAn icon of a block arrow pointing to the right.EmailAn icon of a paper envelope.FacebookAn icon of the Facebook “f” mark.GoogleAn icon of the …
Read More »Royal Mail statement on new home for Nuneaton delivery office
Royal Mail has said land on the Bermuda estate is a ‘prospective site’ for the town’s delivery and sorting office. As we reported in our newsletter, planning applications have been submitted for Royal Mail signage on land off Hazell Way. Also within the application documents for the signage it states: …
Read More »Britain’s rail strike and the struggle against war: Bring down the Johnson government!
Rail workers in the UK will walk out again Thursday for the second of three days of national strike action. This is no ordinary industrial dispute. Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his government of political gangsters want to emulate Margaret Thatcher’s targeting of the miners in 1984-85, which ended in …
Read More »Fat Cat bosses at firms facing strikes earn up to 86 times average wage of workers
While Boris Johnson boasts about wanting a high-wage society, the PM insisted staff asking for pay rises to make ends meet would further raise inflation Andrew Haines – Network Rail chief executive was Paid £593,000 last year – around 18 times what the RMT says its average members get ( …
Read More »Royal Mail issues new stamps to mark 50th anniversary of first Pride rally
Royal Mail has revealed images of a new set of “vibrantly illustrated” stamps to mark the 50th anniversary of the UK’s first Pride rally. The eight stamps celebrate a march that took place from Trafalgar Square to Hyde Park in London in July 1972, which was the first to bear …
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