Workers from the Coryton oil refinery in Essex are set to march in London tomorrow (Thursday) to demand government action to save their jobs.
The UCU union held further and higher education sector conferences on Friday of last week before its main conference began on Saturday. Delegates voted resoundingly for action to defend their pay, jobs, pensions and conditions.
Delegates to the UCU conference resoundingly rejected attempts by their general secretary Sally Hunt to change the union’s structures. They said the changes would have undermined democracy and risked derailing struggle by encouraging passivity.
The racist EDL failed to deliver the monster demo they had promised for last Saturday in Rochdale.
Vigils are planned across Britain on Sunday to remember those who have died in police custody.
The police are 37 times more likely to stop and search black people than their white counterparts, a new report has found.
Church leaders and Tory MPs have joined a chorus of bigots attacking plans to allow same-sex couples to get married.
The government of Spain—the fourth biggest eurozone economy—has turned to the European Union for a bailout estimated at up to £81 billion.
How to resist the Tory attacks was the theme of the GMB Congress in Brighton this week. But the key terrain of that battle for the union is the Labour Party’s conduct in opposition.
New details have come to light about the boss of the company that made unemployed people work for free during the jubilee.
Shop workers could be better off on the dole because of tax credit changes brought in by the Tory government.
