The announcement that car production would continue on Ellesmere Port was greeted with a media and political unity usually reserved for royal jubilees.
Some 45 dockers at the Port of Tilbury in Essex began a 48-hour strike against attacks on their contracts on Monday of this week.
Information Technology workers threatened with compulsory redundancy at CSC have pushed bosses to postpone compulsory redundancies, according to their Unite union.
Unions representing workers at the BBC have settled their dispute. Workers were being balloted for strikes but NUJ, Bectu and Unite officials have backed off from a walkout.
Some 430 admin workers at Kirklees council in West Yorkshire have voted to strike by 70 percent on a 45 percent turnout.
Tenants and workers in Southwark, south London, attended a public meeting last Saturday about the housing crisis.
Climate activists are touring Britain with the Caravan for a Million Climate Jobs. Some 30 people attended the caravan’s meeting in Leeds last week, with a similar number turning out in Derby.
Charities and voluntary organisations that claim to be helping vulnerable people are instead enforcing government plans to throw them off benefits, Socialist Worker can reveal.
The prospect of a strike over pensions in June hangs in the balance.
Bosses at Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust are getting "unpaid jobseekers" to provide patient care on wards.
The PCS union’s annual conference this week will see an important debate on the next steps in the pensions fight.
A new generation of dangerous nuclear power plants is on its way—and we will be forced to pay for them with a levy on our fuel bills.
