UK: Fire and rehire contract deadline nears for striking Go North West bus drivers
The strike by over 400 Manchester bus drivers against fire and rehire contracts being imposed by Go North West has reached its eleventh hour, with just over a week until the deadline for mass dismissal on May 8.
The strike action, which has entered its eighth week, is one of the longest disputes for over a generation on the national bus network. It testifies to the determination of workers to withstand a vicious assault on their terms and conditions imposed by dictatorial methods. The outcome of this fight will have repercussions for bus workers and the entire working class. Go-Ahead, the parent company of Go North West, is establishing a new benchmark of exploitation at the Cheetham Hill depot including a 10 percent wage cut.
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The federal government has announced plans to purge the civil service of incompetent hands.
Head of the Civil Service of the Federation, Folasade Yemi-Esan, said there’s now a strict system to employ only qualified persons.
Yemi-Esan spoke at the April edition of the Bureau of Public Service Reforms (BPSR’s) lunch-time reform seminar on Thursday in Abuja.
NAN reports that the HoCS was represented by Emmanuel Meribole, the Permanent Secretary, Service Policies and Strategies Office.
Yemi-Esan stated that the civil service was no longer a welfare institution where people were recruited to check unemployment.
She said the new reform programme, Federal Civil Service Strategy and Implementation Plan (FCSSIP) 2017-2020, was derived from the Economic Recovery and Growth Plan (ERGP).
The Covid memorial wall in London. Photograph: John Sibley/Reuters
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Boris Johnsonâs refusal to trigger a public inquiry into the UKâs handling of Covid is facing a fresh challenge as some of the countryâs leading experts in government and healthcare demand the launch of an immediate investigation.
The Institute for Government (IfG), whose leadership includes the former Conservative cabinet minister David Lidington and the former Labour science minister Lord Sainsbury, will call on the prime minister to set up a statutory public inquiry in May, with hearings to start in September.