The Unite union’s conference debated the union’s link with the Labour Party on Tuesday morning. The union donates more than £20 million to the party each year.
Around 100 people protested in Purfleet, Essex, yesterday (Monday) as part of the fight to save the threatened Coryton oil refinery.
Len Shelley is assistant branch secretary of the PCS union at the HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) headquarters in Euston Tower, central London.
Some 55,000 civil service workers in HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) struck on Monday against job cuts and privatisation.
The spirit of rank and file rebellion at austerity marked this weekend’s Unite the Resistance conference.
Jake works as a bus engineer and was outside West Ham bus garage on strike for the first time. "It’s great to see everyone out together," he said.
There were lively and confident scenes on bus garage picket lines across London on Friday as workers in the Unite union struck for 24 hours to demand an Olympic bonus payment.
Bosses at three London bus companies won a last minute High Court injunction against the Unite union on Thursday night.
Doctors in the British Medical Association (BMA) took industrial action for the first time in 40 years on Thursday. They refused to undertake non-urgent care in surgeries and hospitals across the country.
The Unison union’s annual conference has voted to prepare for strikes over pay in the autumn.
Irish republican socialist Bernadette McAliskey addressed a meeting of more than 200 people in Glasgow on Thursday of last week. It was part of a campaign for the release of dissident Irish republican Marian Price.
