Basildon council wants to forcibly remove around 400 Travellers from Dale Farm in Essex, making them homeless.
Eighteen workers in Revenue & Customs’ northernmost mainland office have won their long-running campaign against closure and redundancy.
The government used the media’s focus on MPs’ questioning of the Murdochs on Tuesday of last week to slip out an announcement that 20 job centres will close.
A planned strike by PCS union members at the Steria firm on Monday and Tuesday of this week was called off after management made an improved pay offer.
Hundreds of people packed into a primary school in Mumbles, Swansea to stop the closure of the Swansea Coastguard Centre. The meeting agreed that mass action was key to winning.
The two biggest rail unions in Britain—the RMT and TSSA—last week announced that they would be taking part in formal talks that could lead to a merger.
Shockwaves went around the world after a far right terrorist killed 76 people in Norway.
The pitched battle between Southampton council workers and their Tory bosses shows no signs of relenting.
Lambeth council bosses have been forced to back down over compulsory redundancies after library workers threatened to strike in the south London borough.
Could the US government really default on its debts?
European leaders were patting themselves on the back last week over a new deal to handle the economic crisis in the eurozone. Despite the deal, though, the turmoil shows no sign of ending.
