NEWS in pictures OLYMPIC BUS JUSTICEWHERE’S OUR FARE PAY, BORIS?
It’s easy to see what Unite garage rep Dave Garner thinks of the fact that bus drivers are the only transport workers in London not to receive a payment for the massive increase in workload during the Olympics.
At least 800,000 extra
passengers, making multiple journeys, are predicted to use London’s iconic red buses during the Olympics. Unite’s call for a net £500 payment, which over the 29 days of the Games works out at just £17.24 a day – the cost of a pint of beer and a portion of fish and chips at the Olympics.
Members have overwhelmingly voted for strike action and as we go to press Unite is giving bus companies a final chance to resolve this before strike dates are announced. For more see page 15.
REMPLOY WE DESERVE PROPER JOBS TOO, IAIN
After Tory work minister Iain Duncan Smith told a Rem- ploy worker that he wanted to make her unemployed so he could give someone else a ‘proper job,’ the 1,700 dis- abled workers, who face a lifetime on benefits if their fac- tories close, took their fight to save their jobs to his constituency.
In June a billboard appeared in Chingford, Iain Duncan Smith’s constituency. Stars of the billboard were London Remploy workers pictured – from left to right – Robert Dainty, Tracey Maskell, Mohammed Irshad.
The government’s treatment of the Remploy workforce has left the British public upset and outraged. Within hours of an email going out to all Unite members urging them to write to the minister, Iain Duncan Smith, re- ceived some 8,000 messages to his inbox. With only weeks left to save the jobs, the fight for a Remploy future goes on.
For more visit
www.saveremployfactories.co.uk 6 uniteWORKS July/August 2012
Mark Thomas
Mark Thomas
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