16 May 2009
| Cathy Nugent
The RMT is re-balloting nearly 10,000 of its members across London Underground and Transport for London forMore than 800,000 people have now fled fighting in the Swat district of Pakistan. They join a total of around 1.3 million refugees who have fled recent fighting in other parts of the North-West Frontier Province, fleeing, on the one hand threats of violence from the Taliban against people who do not join their “jihad”, and on the other the gunship helicopters of Pakistan’s army. strike action around disputes centred on jobs, pay and breaches of disciplinary and attendance agreements.