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Staff working for cleaning contractor Initial currently earn £6.73 an hour, just 75p an
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The people of Greece face an unprecedented economic and political crisis (Violence grips Athens, 13 February). They are being driven to poverty and mass unemployment by the demands of the so-called Troika. Hospitals in Greece are running out of medicines
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Bob Crow, General Secretary of the National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers, (RMT) applauds during the third day of the annual Trades Union Congress in central London, on September 14, 2011. British unions representing millions of public... View Photo »
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Ed Balls and Ed Miliband doomed the Labour Party to electoral defeat by lining up with the Tory-led coalition's cuts and their attacks on public sector workers and that view is widely held across the trade union movement.
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13 February 2012 Last updated at 14:45 ET The cleaners work for Initial under a Network Rail contract Workers who clean St Pancras International are to stage two 48-hour strikes in a dispute over pay. Members of the Rail, Maritime and Transport (RMT) uni
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The workers for contractor Initial have not had any increase for four years. Now the RMT members are set to strike for two days from 6am on Thursday and again from March 1 for another 48 hours. RMT general secretary Bob Crow said: "It is a shocking indic
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Derby Telegraph published Campaign brought our city of Derby together and persuaded...
Derby Telegraph
Derby City Council leader Philip Hickson was at the heart of the campaign to keep Bombardier in the city. In his own words, Mr Hickson gives his view on the battle for Bombardier. WHEN I stepped out of Bombardier Transportation's global headquarters in B
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General Secretary of the National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers (RMT), Bob Crow, addresses delegates at the Trades Union Congress (TUC)'s annual congress in central London, on September 12, 2011. The leader of Britain's trade unions said... View Photo »
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They talk about people on high wages like Bob Crow and Frank Dobson but what they do is deliberately obfuscate the difference between household incomes and wages ... The two aren’t the same. You might have an extended family, which would mean you get a reasonably high household income but that doesn’t m...
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Strike: Trains from Glasgow Central will be cancelled on Tuesday and Wednesday. Commuters across Glasgow will be disrupted this week due to industrial action by signalling workers. ScotRail have said there will be a number of alterations to services whic
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A dispute involving workers who clean Eurostar trains ended today when their union announced a pay deal which will see staff earning a minimum rate of £8 an hour by the autumn. The Rail Maritime and Transport union said the deal was worth 8% on basic pay
About Bob Crow
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Bob Crow (born 13 June 1961) is the general secretary of the British trade union RMT. He is one of the founder members of the so-called "Awkward Squad" - the loose grouping of left-wing union leaders who came to power in a series of electoral victories beginning in 2002. Full Article
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General Secretary of the National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers (RMT), Bob Crow, addresses delegates at the Trades Union Congress (TUC)'s annual congress in central London, on September 12, 2011. The leader of Britain's trade unions said Monday last month's riots had...
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