Over 200 Southampton library workers, trade unionists and their supporters held a demonstration during their strike on Monday.
Time for an end to the witch-hunt The mood for unity at the conference fed into opposition to the witch-hunt against left wing activists inside the union.
The annual conference of Britain’s biggest public sector union, Unison, met last week.
A massive display of resistance met the threat by the racist English Defence League (EDL) to march through the heart of east London’s Muslim community last Sunday.
A dangerous precedent of climbing down in the face of pressure from the EDL was set last week.
Bolton’s newly elected Labour MP, Yasmin Qureshi, has added her support to the campaign to defend activists charged during the Unite Against Fascism protest in Bolton in March.
The death of the 300th British soldier in Afghanistan this week marks yet another milestone in a bloody pointless war that has killed thousands of Afghan civilians.
Bakers at Maple Leaf in Walsall are balloting over threats to sack workers who refuse to agree to new pay rates.
Corus steel workers in Scunthorpe rejected an improved pay offer on Wednesday of last week.
Workers at the Tube Lines maintenance company on London Underground (LU) were set to strike for 48-hours from 7pm on Wednesday over jobs, pay and working conditions.
Months of campaigning by SPLASH, a users’ group who want South Leeds sports centre to stay open, has won a four-month extension.
Up to 800 workers at car parts maker Delphi Diesel Systems in Sudbury, Suffolk, are set to strike over pay. Workers in the Unite union are planning to strike for one day a week starting next Monday.
