Hundreds of thousands of teachers will strike to stop the Tories’ assault on pensions.
Postal workers in Islington, north London, are celebrating after an unofficial walkout this morning (Thursday) forced Royal Mail to reinstate a suspended colleague.
A major theme of GMB congress has been the union’s relationship to Labour.
Opposition to government cuts ran through GMB congress.
Former political prisoner and Black Panther Geronimo Pratt died last week aged 63. He is believed to have died of natural causes in Tanzania where he had settled and worked as a human rights activist.
"If they go on strike, the only people they are going to hurt are the people of Doncaster."
Former workers at the Chevron oil refinery in Pembroke, South Wales, have described the plant as a "time bomb" after a blast killed four workers and seriously hurt a fifth last week.
The EIS will hold its conference this week amid anger at how the leadership of the Scottish teachers’ union is opposing attacks on education.
The national co-ordinating committee of the United Left (UL), Unite the union’s broad left, is set to meet on Saturday.
Israeli soldiers murdered 23 people last Sunday during protests against its occupation of Syria’s Golan Heights. They injured another 350 protesters.
Syrian security forces mutinied in the northern town of Jisrash Shugur on Monday.
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has moved in on Egypt. It has agreed a $3 billion loan with the military council government.
