Signalling industrial strife ahead – railway signal workers are going on strike again in a dispute about shift patterns. The dispute has been running since April and signallers were taking action on Christmas Eve.
The Communication Workers Union (CWU) explained why some of its members went on a second strike, saying because they are being asked to do more work with fewer people.
The NHS Commissioning Board will issue guidance to health bodies later this week about new medical and hospital procedures. The medical director of the NHS Sir Bruce Keogh said that the health service should move towards a seven-day model of working.
A distribution centre is being caught up in a war between unions and bosses, with the former taking continuous strike action.
Prime Minister David Cameron hailed an “excellent” major airline deal that protects 9,000 UK jobs.
Approximately 90 firefighters from two counties have attended a blaze at a car showroom and workshop in Norfolk this week. Fire crews were called to the industrial estate in Downham Market at 03:20 GMT on Wednesday (December 5, 2012).
A council has set aside half-a-million pounds in its yearly budget for bonuses in a new performance related scheme.
Unions have claimed the Office for National Statistics figures that say the average weekly gross wage for public-sector workers was £564.60, £9 more than those in the private sector, reinforced a myth that those
Locog, who organised the 2012 Olympics, worked on the biggest peacetime recruitment process since World War Two.
Dutch company Vion NV is hopeful of finding a UK-based food business buyer for all its sites on these shores. Vion UK employs 13,000 people at 38 sites in the UK, leading to speculation of job losses.