Two of the most contentious debates at the conference concerned nuclear energy and Trident nuclear missiles.
Unite’s conference brought together reps and activists from across the public and private sectors.
Health secretary Andrew Lansley has decided to impose the Tories’ pensions offer on NHS workers, despite all major health unions voting to oppose the deal.
NHS trust bosses are demanding much lower national pay levels if they are to continue using the Agenda for Change framework for pay bargaining.
Hundreds of redundancy notices are going out at the Coryton oil refinery in Essex.
The TUC’s national demonstration on Saturday 20 October has the potential to put even more people on the streets than the huge 26 March protest last year. It could open up the next stage in the fightback.
Barclays’ Bob Diamond—the banker who thought there had been enough "remorse and apology" for the crisis—has been toppled by a huge scandal.
Bus workers in London were set to strike again on Thursday of this week to demand that bosses award them an Olympic payment.
At 9.20am last Thursday, a man tied himself to the railings outside Selly Oak job centre in Birmingham, doused himself in flammable liquid—and then lit it.
Workers at Sheffield’s privatised recycling centres are in their second week of an all-out strike against cuts to opening hours and their weekly pay.
The Barclays interest rate-rigging scandal has given us a glimpse into the way the banks operate—and taken the anger against the champagne bankers to new levels.
PCS union to fight in elections Members of the PCS civil service workers’ union have voted overwhelmingly to allow use of the union’s political fund to support anti-cuts candidates in elections.
