Teachers across Britain ended last term by calling on their union leaders to organise national strikes to defend pay and conditions.
Cleaners working on the Tyne and Wear Metro struck for 72 hours over Christmas over pay.
Journalists at Newsquest in York have forced management into talks over pay after holding a mandatory chapel meeting last month.
Walkout for Bristol postal workers Around 100 postal workers at a delivery office in south Bristol struck on 17 December for a second time.
A judge last month quashed accidental death inquest verdicts for 96 Liverpool football fans who died as a result of the 1989 Hillsborough disaster.
The government has decided to contest the right of Kenyan people tortured by British forces during the Mau Mau War to claim compensation.
The public inquiry into the police killing of Azelle Rodney has heard all its evidence and is expected to report its findings this month.
The Tories plan to start 2013 by slashing every benefit they can lay their hands on.
Tax dives while profits soar The biggest firms in Britain are paying a fifth less tax than they did 12 years ago, a Reuters report says.
Some 64 percent of Egyptian voters have approved President Mohamed Mursi’s new constitution, according to unofficial results released on Sunday by the judicial authorities.
The results from the first day of Egypt’s referendum poll on Muslim Brotherhood President Mursi’s new constitution show a majority of 56.5 percent cast a yes vote.
If you tuck into a chicken product from Tesco, Morrisons or Marks & Spencer, there’s a good chance it passed through one of the 2 Sisters Food Group factories in the West Midlands. More than 1,200 workers struck there today, Friday—against plans to pay them chicken feed.
