Delegates to the doctors’ BMA union conference last week called for the complete withdrawal of the government’s health and social care bill.
Campaigners across Britain were set to celebrate the NHS’s 63rd birthday this week—and pledge to defend it from the Tories.
A sixty-five year old Laing O’Rourke crane operator died on the Olympic park site in London on Tuesday of last week.
Workers from the GMB union are staging demonstrations at the ExxonMobil’s Fawley oil refinery in Hampshire over 20 locked out workers.
A campaign involving parents, teachers and school students has succeeded in forcing a Brighton school to abandon plans to become an academy.
Teachers called off a planned strike at Selwyn primary school in Waltham Forest last week.
Teachers in the NASUWT union at Diss High School in Norfolk have voted to strike against academies.
Activists from Unite Against Fascism are organising to oppose marches called by the racist English Defence League (EDL) this Saturday.
UCU union members have voted to back a boycott of the Institute for Learning (IFL) in a referendum.
AssetCo, the private strike-breaking firm that owns all of London’s fire engines, is close to collapse.
More than 300 workers were set to strike at Burton’s Foods biscuit factory in Blackpool after voting by 86 percent for strikes. The first strike was set for Tuesday of next week. Further walkouts are planned for 18, 20 and 26 July.
