The Liberal Democrats’ biggest ever donor has been arrested while on the run dodging a seven-year jail sentence for fraud. Michael Brown bankrolled the party’s lies with £2.4 million of stolen money.
Disabled people have produced a report that lays bare the scale of opposition to the government’s plans to reform disability benefits.
The "heads of agreement" signed by Unison, Unite and GMB union officials before Christmas adds up to a total betrayal on public sector pensions.
Government plans to make us work three years longer would mean that workers have to literally work until they break.
It’s a critical week for the fight to stop Tory attacks on public sector pensions. Trade union leaders and rank and file workers are meeting to discuss the government’s latest deal and the way forward.
The Unison union’s local government and education service group executives today voted to accept the government’s outline deal on pensions.
The Unite union’s local government sector committee has voted to reject the "heads of agreement" on the government’s pensions offer. A majority of delegates at their meeting today (Monday) voted for rejection.
Several hundred Nigerians joined a noisy protest outside the Nigerian High Commission in central London on Thursday afternoon. They were angry that the West African country's President, Goodluck Jonathan, says he will abolish the subsidy on fuel prices. The government says everyone must tighten their belts—but only the poor rely on the subsidy to make costs of cooking and transport bearable. Many ordinary Nigerians say the subsidy is the only benefit they have had from the country's oil wealth.
The Unite union has rejected the government’s pensions agreement for health workers.
More than 200 workers at the Marks & Spencer distribution centre in Swindon struck on 22 December over plans to introduce worse conditions and lower pay for new starters.
Housing workers at Family Mosaic Housing Association have voted for strikes over new contracts in a consultative ballot.
Strikes planned over Christmas by workers at TV Licensing contractor Capita have been postponed.
