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ANGRY British Gas engineers are set to burn their “sign-it-or-be-sacked” contracts today as they take to picket lines for the seventh day.
The response of 7,000 GMB members to the profitable company’s attempts to slash pay and impose inferior conditions was a nine-to-one strike vote, followed by “rock-solid” industrial action.
The ceremonial burning of contracts that the engineers have been told to sign by March or face dismissal will take place across Britain at key offices of British Gas and its transnational owner Centrica, including the group’s head office in Windsor.
The General Strike exposed the power of the working class — and the limits of its leadership, writes Dr DYLAN MURPHY
The biggest strike in global history is a template for our future. The silence tells you all you need to know, writes CLAUDIA WEBBE
On the 40th anniversary of the Wapping dispute, this Morning Star special supplement traces the long-planned conspiracy that led to the mass sackings of printworkers in 1986 – a struggle whose unresolved injustices still demand redress today, writes ANN FIELD
