Refuse workers in Bromley, south east London, struck unofficially on Thursday of last week against the sacking of four colleagues.
HM Revenue and Customs bosses have agreed to extend the grant given to nurseries in East Kilbride, near Glasgow, and Cardiff following protests.
Signal stops trains for better shifts Signal workers in Sterling, Scotland, were set to strike on Friday and Saturday of this week over rosters. The RMT union members are demanding 12-hour shifts. Messages of support to Adrian Scott [email protected]
Women face a new threat to their abortion rights. Jeremy Hunt, the new secretary of state for health, and Maria Miller, the new minister for women and equalities, have both declared support for cutting the abortion time limit.
The High Court has rejected final appeals from Babar Ahmad, Talha Ahsan and three other prisoners who have been fighting extradition to the US.
The national executive of the NUT teachers’ union met on Thursday as action short of a strike got underway. But the executive failed to take crucial steps towards calling a national strike this term.
Three veterans of the Mau Mau war in Kenya have won the right to take the British government to court for torture in the 1950s.
A diatribe against welfare provision from Johann Lamont, leader of Scottish Labour, has been supported by prominent Labour figures at the party’s conference this week.
Lecturers at Barnfield College sites in Luton struck on Tuesday of this week against attempts to bully them into signing new contracts.
Teachers in UCAC, the Welsh teaching union, have voted overwhelmingly for strikes over pay. In a recent ballot they backed discontinuous strikes by 84 percent and action short of a strike by 91 percent.
A series of leaked documents relating to cases of sexual exploitation in Rotherham, South Yorkshire, were published by The Times newspaper last week.
Teachers in the NUT union were set to begin industrial action on Wednesday of this week to defend their pay, pensions and conditions.
