Fujitsu workers in Manchester affiliated with the Unite union have voted in support of industrial action in a dispute over pay, working conditions and the treatment of trade unionists.
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Journalist James Fallah-Williams has ended his 19-day hunger strike after the UK Border Agency (UKBA) agreed to resume communications with his legal team and consider his case for asylum.
Supporters of journalist and human rights activist James Fallah-Williams are to hold a solidarity vigil this evening to mark the fourteenth day of his hunger strike in protest against the UK Border Agency’s handling of his asylum claim.
Manchester Magistrates Court has so far sentenced two men to prison terms after they were arrested and convicted of swearing during the disturbances in the city on Tuesday night.
A local journalist is on hunger strike in protest against the UK Border Agency’s handling of his case for asylum. Manchester NUJ member James Fallah-Williams says he is taking the drastic action to expose the “abuse of power” by the government body, which he accuses of misleading his MP, shadow education minister Andy Burnham.
Asylum seekers and human rights activists have submitted a formal letter laying out their concerns over the handling of the collapse of the UK’s largest charitable provider of immigration legal aid. The statement was presented last Thursday, 60 years to the day since the United Nations approved the status of refugees in international law.
