BRITISH Gas management announced that 20,000 jobs are to go over the next three years in a major reorganisation and reduction in its service.
The trade unions have started to lobby and campaign against the break-up and secured the backing of the TUC for their fight.
But the campaign has got off to a slow start with many gas workers already leaving the industry in the absence of the kind of campaign they believe would knock an already unsteady government off its perch.
If management is to receive a bloody nose in this fight gas workers need to strike the first blow by mounting a campaign of industrial action and winning public support in the fight against privatisation. FBU retreat • FBU leaders have postponed a ballot over industrial action in defence of their pay formula until a meeting with local authority employers.