Teachers in an east London school have won a significant victory as part of a national campaign over workload and conditions.
Lecturers in the EIS teaching union in Scotland are set to strike on Tuesday of next week over pay. The workers are fighting a below-inflation 1 percent pay offer.
Hundreds of people turned out at St Paul’s Cathedral last Saturday to celebrate the first anniversary of Occupy London. They heard speakers from Greece, Spain and the student movement in Quebec before marching to City Hall.
More than 100 striking Tesco lorry drivers marched through Doncaster, south Yorkshire, on Tuesday of last week in defence of their jobs.
Some 40 supporters of the campaign for justice for Jimmy Mubenga protested outside Crown Prosecution Service offices in central London on Friday of last week.
Lecturers at Gateshead College staged a highly successful strike on Wednesday of last week. The UCU union members are fighting management attempts to impose unacceptable changes to their working conditions.
Workers in the PCS union will vote on an offer to end a dispute over conditions in Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) call centres.
Activists hand in closures petition Campaigners against the planned closure of half the A&Es in north west London delivered petitions signed by over 60,000 to stop the cuts. Around 50 activists delivered the petitions to North West London NHS headquarters last week.
Show us the 1972 documents Construction workers are demanding the release of government documents relating to the 1972 builders’ strike.
"The Metropolitan police is the most dangerous institution on Britain," anti-racist campaigner Darcus Howe told some 300 people last Saturday.
A judge has ruled that the police must hand over video footage to the legal team of the family of Azelle Rodney. Azelle was shot by a police officer at point blank range in April 2005.
The government is preparing a vicious attack on NHS workers’ pay, terms and conditions, it has emerged.
