Britain’s biggest union is rushing through a general secretary election—and blacklisted former rep Jerry Hicks is campaigning for a fightback against austerity and job cuts.
Private companies, such as Virgin Care and InHealth, are lobbying to avoid tax on the profits they make from health care contracts.
The Academies Commission that reported last week was expected to be a whitewash. It was set up to help academies work better.
Signallers escalate dispute in Scotland Railway signallers across Scotland could walk out to support signallers in Stirling.
Striking Post workers held a lively and determined picket line in Whitstable, Kent, last Saturday.
Six people including a 20 day old baby were killed as they tried to hide from a tower block fire in 2009, an inquest has heard.
Some 300 people packed into a central Newcastle hall on Wednesday of last week to rally against library closures.
Over 100 people joined a rally outside Battersea Park Adventure Playground on Saturday of last week (see above).
Around 7,000 people marched from Hackney to Haringey, north London, last Sunday in protest at the assassination of three Kurdish activists in Paris last week.
London’s Met Office revised its predictions about climate change last week.
The NUT union’s national executive committee will vote on whether to call a one-day national strike in March on Thursday of next week.
Bosses at Halesowen College in the Black Country dismissed three lecturers on Friday of last week.
