The depth and scale of blacklisting in the construction industry is being revealed in evidence to a parliamentary select committee.
Hundreds of firefighters and their supporters marched through the centre of Leeds today, Saturday, against massive fire service cuts planned across West Yorkshire.
Up to 200 people from Kurdish and Turkish organisations protested outside the Turkish embassy today, Friday.
Medical secretaries, admin and clerical workers at three West Yorkshire hospitals struck today, Thursday, against redundancies and pay cuts.
Tesco lorry drivers in Doncaster began a three day strike today against their new bosses’ plans to sack them all.
Pensioners lobbied parliament in central London today against government plans to introduce means testing for some of their universal benefits.
Yunus Bakhsh, the nurse and trade unionist who was illegally sacked in 2006 by Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust, has won a very substantial sum as a final settlement in his dispute against his former employer.
‘People will die’ from Liverpool cuts Protesters blocked traffic outside Liverpool town hall on Wednesday of last week while the Labour council planned £11 million of cuts.
Motor giant Ford announced it was closing three factories last week. The company will close its plant in Genk, Belgium, at the end of 2014, with plants in Southampton and Dagenham to be shut down next year.
A major assault on the NHS Agenda for Change national agreement on terms and conditions has been negotiated with health bosses by officials from the Unison, RCN and CSP unions.
Teachers at Worthing High School in West Sussex mounted a large and lively picket on Wednesday of last week. They were striking for the second time against their school’s plans to become an academy.
More than 150 students and lecturers participated in this year’s Education Activist Network Conference at SOAS last Sunday.
