Workers who look after the financial affairs of vulnerable people struck on Tuesday against plans to relocate their jobs.
PCS union members at offices of the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) across Britain were to walk out for an hour from 11am on Wednesday of this week and again on Wednesday of next week.
Journalists at Tindle Newspapers in north London last week completed a 14-day strike to demand more staff.
Locked out construction workers at Saltend in Hull spread protests to a British Sugar plant in Newark last week. Some 400 workers have been in dispute since March.
Around the world newspaper front pages screamed with celebration at the announcement that US forces had killed Osama Bin Laden in his compound in Pakistan.
The Tories and the Liberal Democrats dreaded voters giving them a hammering in this week’s elections for their vicious attacks on working people over the past year.
Dozens of hospitals already struggling to cope with the government’s crippling financial demands will be forced to slash even more jobs and services.
Egypt’s workers have reclaimed May Day as a celebration of struggle and solidarity.
Around 2,000 people joined the first public May Day celebrations in Tunis for 50 years.
Six Kurdish Iranian refugees are on hunger strike in London in protest against British government plans to deport them to Iran.
