The campaign for compensation for blacklisted construction workers has stepped up a gear. Some 86 former construction workers have lodged a High Court claim against the Sir Robert McAlpine firm.
Rank and file activists gathered outside Ratcliffe on Soar power station in Nottinghamshire on Thursday of last week.
Saturday strikes to hit Stagecoach Winchester coach drivers at Stagecoach were set to hold two 24-hour strikes from 6am on Saturday of this week and next. The workers, in the RMT union, voted to strike over pay and conditions.
Former London regional organiser Steve Hedley has been elected assistant general secretary of the RMT.
Chris Grayling, the Tory work and pensions minister, launched fresh attacks on benefit claimants this week, despite his smear that they are fakers being proved wrong.
The number of people in Britain without a home has rocketed by 25 percent in the past three years, new research has found.
Gove’s attack on teachers Tory education secretary Michael Gove snuck in a fresh attack on education as the Olympics began last week.
Around 500 marched through east London today, Saturday, in protest at the commercialisation and militarisation of the Olympic games.
The Unite union organised a protest today, Friday, outside the Turkish embassy in solidarity with Turkish Airlines workers who have been banned from striking.
London Underground cleaners in the RMT union are striking today, Friday, to demand a living wage.
Remploy workers strike again: reports and pictures round-up
A planned strike by PCS union members has been called off after management concessions.
