The national executive of the NUT teachers’ union met yesterday, Thursday, against the backdrop of Tory plans to scrap teachers’ national pay and give head teachers the power to determine pay.
Striking Tesco lorry drivers in Doncaster have voted to accept a deal from their new bosses Eddie Stobart.
A report into the murder of Belfast solicitor Pat Finucane has concluded there was "no overarching state conspiracy", even though there were "shocking" levels of state collusion.
Some 1,200 workers were set to strike on Friday of this week at four factories in the West Midlands. They are fighting poverty pay, along with alleged bullying and lack of support for workers who suffer industrial accidents.
Protesters in Barnet, north London, took over a council meeting as the Tory cabinet voted to hand £750 million of services to private firm Capita.
Lorries backed up outside Tesco’s distribution centre in Doncaster last Saturday, and on Monday and Tuesday of this week—kept out by defiant pickets.
Christmas is supposed to be a time of celebration and happiness. But for Nina Hammill, it’s yet another source of stress.
Huge firms including Tesco, Argos and Superdrug have stepped up their recruitment of people on workfare for the Christmas season.
Inquests set to be quashed Attorney general Dominic Grieve has applied to quash inquest verdicts for 96 Liverpool football fans who died as a result of the Hillsborough football disaster.
Tory chancellor George Osborne fired the first shot in the battle over public sector pay last week.
Chancellor George Osborne announced the end of national pay levels for teachers in his autumn statement last week.
Dunston school walks out against appraisals Teachers at Dunston primary school in Chesterfield began a three-day strike on Tuesday of this week against intrusive appraisals and monitoring.
