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The Bakers Union and MP’s are again demanding that Orchard House Food pay the workers, at their recently closed Gateshead plant, the redundancy payments they are owed before Christmas. As things stand the company, that supplies the likes of Marks and Spencer and Pret A Manger, and which is a going concern with a factory still… Read more »
The UK’s largest shooting organisation, the British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC), has condemned an incident in the Yorkshire Dales where a nest of hen harrier chicks is suspected of being deliberately destroyed by human activity. North Yorkshire Police is calling for anyone with information about the incident near Whernside earlier this year to… Read more »
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Migrant workers coming to the UK will be encouraged to join a trade union, the home secretary said today. Praising the TUC’s work helping vulnerable migrant workers, Jacqui Smith said the government could do more to ensure migrant workers claim their full rights at work. Ms Smith told delegates at the TUC congress in Brighton… Read more »
The government finally moved to counter David Cameron’s warnings of anarchy in the UK today, with the declaration “Britain isn’t broken”. Making her first address as home secretary to the TUC Congress, Jacqui Smith attacked those seeking political advantage from the public’s fear of crime. Ms Smith told union delegates: “Tragic events affect us all,… Read more »
