The courts have set another grim record for the longest sentence yet given in connection with the August 2011 riots.
Almost 100 people rallied outside Holloway Women’s Prison in solidarity with jailed protesters on New Year’s Eve.
Some 65 workers contracted to the Metropolitan police struck for 24 hours on Friday 23 December in a long-running dispute over pay.
The UK Border Agency (UKBA) is to give all contracts for the Compass project to accommodate asylum seekers over the next five years to three multinational detention and deportation companies.
Street cleaners in Cheshire were set to walk out for two hours on Thursday of this week in a battle over shifts.
The BBC has stooped to a new low. First it failed to include any women in its shortlist for Sports Personality of the Year.
Around 60 home care workers protested outside the South Gloucestershire council meeting on 14 December.
Baggage handlers at Liverpool John Lennon Airport held regular walkouts over Christmas and the New Year.
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Revolutionary socialist activists in Cairo warned yesterday that the latest round of the media attacks against them show there is an organised campaign to stop the revolution itself.
Further confusion broke out today (Wednesday) over possible deals on pensions as two unions – Unison and GMB – said they were "back on track" with a deal in local government, but Unite appeared not to be. And Unite general secretary Len McCluskey issued an "action alert" to the union’s members stressing that no deals had yet been done.
