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STRIKING British Gas engineers burned new company contracts today to demonstrate that they will not be bullied into accepting a massive pay cut and inferior conditions.
As more than 7,000 engineers downed tools for their seventh day of strike action, the GMB union called on the “millionaires’ club” on the company’s board to rein in chief executive Chris O’Shea’s fire-and-rehire strategy.
The union pointed out that four members of the board of parent company Centrica made £37 million between them for roles outside the company in the last five years.
Martin Taylor, the hedge-fund multimillionaire who has poured millions into pushing Labour rightwards, helped finance Lucy Powell’s supposedly dissenting campaign — suggesting her victory was not the ‘soft-left’ rebellion some have claimed, says SOLOMON HUGHES
MARIA DUARTE and ANGUS REID review Friendship, Four Letters of Love, Tin Soldier and The Ballad of Suzanne Cesaire
Sharon Graham addresses the Unite policy conference after talks over the Birmingham bin strikes break down