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- Thousands of Postal Workers to Go on Strike
- By Michael HoldenLONDON (Reuters UK) - Thousands of postal workers at Royal Mail were due to join a 48-hour nationwide strike on Thursday, blaming bosses and the government for failing to prevent the damaging action.Members of the Communication Workers Union CWU are taking the action in a long-running dispute over...
- News items 2009-10-21
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- Lord Mandelson sets date to block filesharers' connections
- Campaign against illegal filesharers will begin with warning letters only, but with option of blocks from summer 2011 Lord Mandelson, the business secretary, warned internet users today that the days of "consequence-free" illegal filesharing are over as he unveiled the government's plan for cracking down on...
- News items 2009-10-28
- Postal union's leader hits out at Mandelson
- Lord Mandelson came under intense fire from the main postal union last night, after the business secretary attacked strikes due to start tomorrow as "totally self-defeating". The business secretary issued a stark warning about the potential financial damage to Royal Mail, telling peers the state-owned postal operator's reputation in its...
- News items 2009-10-20
- Row after criminal probe over MG Rover collapse ruled out
- Aug 12 2009 by Graeme Brown, Birmingham Post The Serious Fraud Office has announced it will not begin a criminal investigation into the collapse of car maker MG Rover, paving the way for a four-year-old report into the collapse to be published. Graeme Brown and Jonathan Walker examine the reaction...
- News items 2009-08-11
- UK raises concerns over Opel deal
- Britain will not accept Magna International's plan for the takeover of Vauxhall/Opel unless "shortcomings" identified in a report by PwC are addressed, Britain's business secretary, Lord Mandelson, said on Thursday.Speaking to the Financial Times on a visit to Seoul, Lord Mandelson said the UK government could not "sign off"...
- External links 2009-10-07
- Internet pirates face accounts suspension
- Broadband providers could be forced to suspend their customers' accounts under proposals announced on Tuesday by the UK government to tackle internet file-sharing. The proposals mark a hardening of the government's stance against piracy since the Digital Britain report was published in June, and would give substantial new powers to...
- News items 2009-08-25
- UK raises 'subsidy war' fear over Opel
- Lord Mandelson called on Brussels on Thursday night to ensure that Germany's offer of multibillion-euro subsidies to smooth the sale of General Motors' European arm does not begin a "subsidy war", with governments using state aid to protect jobs.The UK business secretary's intervention in the escalating political row over...
- External links 2009-09-17
- Post union threatens further strikes
- The postal union said it would announce further UK strikes following the two-day national walk-out due to start on Thursday, as a bitter war of words broke out over the increasingly politicised dispute. The Communication Workers Union, Royal Mail and the government became embroiled in conflicting claims of acting in...
- News items 2009-10-21
- Lobbying leads to harder stance on net piracy
- Lord Mandelson, the business secretary, yesterday hardened the government's attack on online piracy . The move came after lobbying by the film and music industry over concerns that the digital economy bill provides an in-suf-ficient deterrent.The government took the unusual step of adding to an ongoing consultation a proposal...
- External links 2009-08-25
- Tories fear strike impact on Royal Mail sell-off price
- The threatened Royal Mail strike this week could have a "very serious impact" on the value of the company, damaging the amount a Conservative government could raise for taxpayers by privatising the postal operator, the opposition party warned yesterday. Jonathan Djanogly, the shadow business minister, told the Financial Times the...
- News items 2009-10-21
- Critics lash back again disconnecting UK file-sharers
- By David Meyer ZDNet UKPosted on ZDNet News: Aug 25, 2009 9:22:33 AM The Department of Business, Innovation and Skills BIS proposed on Tuesday that disconnection should be considered in the case of those who persistently share copyrighted material online. The proposals were revealed during an ongoing BIS consultation that...
- News items 2009-08-25
- UK faces file-sharing crackdown
- By David Meyer ZDNet UKPosted on ZDNet News: Aug 17, 2009 8:02:51 AM The issue of copyrighted material being shared online is already the subject of an official, post-Digital Britain consultation, which is due to close on September 15. However, Stephen Timms ? the successor to Digital Britain author Lord...
- News items 2009-08-17
- Hiring temps will 'inflame' row, says union
- Royal Mail will only "inflame" the bitter industrial dispute with its workforce by employing 30,000 temporary staff, union officials warned yesterday. The state-owned postal servicecould also face legal action over strike-breaking. Royal Mail usually hires about 15,000 seasonal staff to help with the Christmas rush, but will take on double...
- News items 2009-10-18
- Postal workers prepare for more strikes next week
- Postal workers are set for a new wave of strikes next week as fears grow that many smaller businesses will not be able to find alternative carriers, undermining the fragile recovery in the run-up to Christmas. The Communication Workers Union said further walkouts would start next Thursday after the first...
- News items 2009-10-22
- SFO rejects criminal probe into MG Rover sale
- The Serious Fraud Office has announced that it will not pursue a criminal investigation into the sale of MG Rover, the Birmingham car maker bought for ??10 in 2000 by four local businessmen. The men ??? John Towers, Nick Stephenson, John Edwards and Peter Beale - have always protested that...
- News items 2009-08-11
- U-turn on Vauxhall sale welcomed
- Nov 5 2009 by John Cranage, Birmingham Post General Motors' surprise last minute U-turn on the sale of its European Opel-Vauxhall operations was hailed as welcome news for hundreds of workers in the West Midlands. An estimated 45 companies employing some 3,650 people in the region supply parts to Vauxhall's...
- News items 2009-11-04
- Mandelson wins support from senior Labour MPs
- He still thinks he's the Comeback Kid. After being condemned as a "traitor" and "hardly a friend of the Labour Party" the first chink of light to brighten Peter Mandelson's future prospects will come with two timely interviews to be shown today on the BBC's On The Record programme. ...
- Research articles 2001-02-11
- Illegal downloaders will be disconnected - eventually
- Tom Young, Computing , Wednesday 28 October 2009 at 15:37:00 Government hopes that warning notifications and targeted legal action will reduce numbers downloading illegally first Business secretary Lord Mandelson today laid out the government's definitive approach for tackling illegal downloading...
- News items 2009-10-28
- UK may disconnect suspected file sharers
- By David Meyer ZDNet UKPosted on ZDNet News: Aug 25, 2009 7:36:15 AM The proposals PDF were announced on Tuesday by Lord Mandelson's Department of Business, Innovation and Skills BIS. They arrive in the middle of the department's own public consultation on legislation on the misuse of peer-to-peer (P2P) technology,...
- News items 2009-08-25
- BSkyB to launch digital music service
- British Sky Broadcasting will this month launch Sky Songs, its long-awaited digital music service designed to compete with music services such as iTunes and Spotify. The broadcaster has agreed deals with the four major music labels, EMI, Sony Music Entertainment, Universal and Warner Music, as well as a number of...
- News items 2009-10-12
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