Dockers in Essex struck for the first time in 23 years on Monday this week.
Hundreds of workers’ jobs are under threat at the budget airline BMI Baby.
The Climate Caravan, which will tour Britain raising awareness of climate issues is set to begin on Saturday.
Some 6,500 former MG Rover workers will get only £3 redundancy—seven years after they lost their jobs.
Around 500 workers travelled from Brough, near Hull to protest outside the shareholders’ meeting of BAE Systems in London on Wednesday of last week.
Disabled workers from Remploy were set to march and lobby parliament on Wednesday of this week.
Some 460 train drivers in the Aslef union at East Midlands Trains struck on Tuesday and Thursday of last week over pensions.
The RMT union has called two strike ballots over pay and conditions at the Tyne & Wear Metro in the north east of England.
The private firm that has taken over the running of Hinchingbrooke hospital in Cambridgeshire is set to make millions in profits by axing services.
The NHS reforms will put us on the road to a system based on insurance, not taxation.That means that if you’re sick, you may not be able to get treatment unless you are covered. And insurers may refuse to cover some conditions if they think it’s too expensive.Private firms will run the service So-called GPs’ groups are just a Trojan horse for profit-hungry companies. Already Richard Branson’s Virgin Care is moving in to take over some key NHS services.
Workers at a major IT firm are bearing the brunt of the chaos that privatisation and outsourcing has brought to the NHS.
