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Growing number of workers come out in support of hospitality strikes on 4 October
The BFAWU to ballot Wetherspoons workers at two pubs in Brighton.
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Conservative leader David Cameron has told the BBC he wants to “stand up” for the low-paid who he claims have been failed by the government. Gordon Brown scrapped the 10p tax rate this week despite fierce opposition from some Labour MPs. In a series of emergency tax measures, the prime minister announced that pensioners under… Read more »
Alistair Darling has dismissed calls to reverse the controversial decision to abandon the 10p income tax band. Some 70 Labour MPs and at least six ministerial aides are believed to be unhappy at the move to abolish the 10p tax rate, claiming it will hit Britain’s poorest hard. But speaking on BBC1’s Andrew Marr show,… Read more »