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British Gas workers outside the headquarters of Centrica in Windsor, Berkshire
THOUSANDS have signed a letter to British Gas shareholders warning them of the damage being done to their investments by the company’s brutal fire-and-rehire strategy.
As 7,000 service engineers prepared for a fresh four-day strike from tomorrow, GMB union revealed that nearly 5,000 supporters had signed a letter to high-profile investors urging them to help secure a negotiated end to the dispute.
The shareholders — including Schroders, Standard Life Aberdeen and Blackrock — between them own about 85 per cent of British Gas’s parent company, Centrica.
Where normally only the US and its ally Israel vote to strangle Cuba economically, there have been special efforts to slander and isolate the besieged socialist island nation year — so we must redouble our solidarity, writes TARIQ ANDERSON
