BBC issues pay warning over strike action

" The BBC has warned staff who refuse to cross picket lines during two days of strike action next month that they will not be paid. The corporation's TV, radio and online news output is expected to be disrupted on...

Woolworths – what about the workers?

  When Woolworths announced the closure of its 815 outlets at the end of December, Britain mourned the fall of a century old, cosy family favourite. WORLDbytes volunteers reveal how two Woolworths workers in London were treated and what Brown’s talk of providing...

Microsoft 'mulling thousands of redundancies'

Microsoft are examining the prospect of making thousands of employees redundant due to the economic downturn. Up to 17% of Microsoft's global workforce could face the axe. As a US company experts warn that...

BT slashes 10,000 jobs

Telecoms giant British Telecom (BT) is to cut its global workforce by 6% - that's 10,000 workers.Many of these jobs will be UK jobs although workers around the world will also be made unemployed.The downturn in...

Update: 5,000 British job cuts in 12 hours

Update: This morning (12th Nov) official figures released that show unemployment in UK at highest for 17 years at 1.8 million with 2 million predicted by Christmas.Over 5000 British job cuts were anounced today in...

Nissan closes UK factory for two weeks

Nissan will close its Sunderland factory from Friday for two weeks. This is due to the global financial downturn resulting in lower sales of its Micra and Note models.When it finally opens again it will run...

Tesco distributes redundancies...

Throughout the country on September 21st, Tesco announced they wanted hundreds of redundancies in their distribution depots. This, at a time when they are still employing Slovakian and Polish agency workers brought in from abroad and being made to stay, several in one...

More Votes Than Registered Voters

The mainstream media censored the vast majority of the evidence of fraud, so that most Americans to this day, have never heard a fraction of what was amiss.

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