Thursday 10 October 2019

Funding Nuclear Power, a Book Launch and a request from the RMT

Funding Nuclear Power, a Book Launch and a request from the RMT
The Government is proposing to fund a new nuclear power station using a funding model known as Regulated Asset Base (RAB). This would appear to work by charging electricity consumers up-front to provide EDF with the investment to build a new nuclear power station at Sizewell C. Given the existing problems with the EDF facility at Hinkley Point. Fuel Poverty Action, amongst others, are raising objections in the current consultation exercise. More details here...
Treason: Rebel Warriors and Internationalist Traitors
An Occasional Publication from The Socialist History Society
Book Launch 14th November 2019 6:30pm
Bookmarks Bookshop, 1 Bloomsbury Street, London WC1B 3QE
£2 on the door, includes a glass of wine
Contains, amongst others, articles by UCU retired members:
  • Resistance to the Nazis from 1933 from within the German workers’ movement (Merilyn Moos)
  • German and Italian Volunteers in the French Resistance (Steve Cushion)
  • Supporting the Enemy in the Death Agony of French Colonialism (Ian Birchall)
as well as
  • Soldiers of Misfortune: Napoleon’s Polish Deserters in the West Indies (Jonathan North)
  • The Saint Patrick’s Battalion (David Rovics)
  • Deserters, Defectors and “Diehards” – The British men who fought and died for Irish Freedom (Pádraig Óg Ó Ruairc)
More details...
Pay the real Living Wage to Mitie Cleaners NOW
From Mick Cash, RMT General Secretary
I’m writing to you to ask you to support RMT members fighting poverty pay. Network Rail have contracted out the cleaning of six of their stations to an outsourcing company. Mitie’s cleaners have had enough and we’ll fight for a real Living Wage, but we need your help. Please help us to persuade Mitie and Network Rail to put an end to this scandal.
Read on...

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