Electricians scored a major victory today as Balfour Beatty withdrew from its plan to force through pay cuts under threat of strikes.
Electricians at construction firm Balfour Beatty are set to strike officially, after bosses’ attempts to use the anti-union laws to stop them failed.
Cleaners formed a noisy and lively picket outside the new St Pancras International Station today, Thursday.
Anger at the NHS privatisation bill could be fatal for David Cameron’s government—according to Tory cabinet ministers.
Management consultancy firm McKinsey and Company have spent thousands of pounds on lavish events for top NHS regulators.
Police arrested five senior figures on the Sun newspaper last weekend.
Trevor Kavanagh, the Sun’s associate editor, wrote on Monday, "The Sun is not a ‘swamp’ that needs draining."
In 1999 Metropolitan police chief Sir John Stevens declared, "We now realise that while we did deal with the ‘rotten apples’, the approach did not destroy the tree from which they had been picked.
Unions have proposed a new date for their joint strike over pensions.
The decision to name 28 March as a date for a joint pension strike breaks the stalemate that followed the government’s "heads of agreement" deal.
Bigots use obnoxious language to parade their obnoxious views. They spit out vile words that demean women, black people, people with disabilities, lesbians, gays—or anyone else they want to target.
Arthur Scargill led the National Union of Mineworkers during its epic strike against Margaret Thatcher’s attempts to smash the union in 1984-85. For this he remains a heroic figure to a generation of activists.
