Airline bosses are demanding that profits are put first during the Icelandic volcano crisis.
Simon Hart is chief executive of pro‑hunting Countryside Alliance—and Tory candidate for Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire.
Headteachers have voted to boycott the hated Sats tests for 11 year olds, which 600,000 students are scheduled to take from 10 May.
Lecturers at 11 further education colleges across London are balloting for strike action. If there is a yes vote, they plan to strike together on Wednesday 5 May—the day before the general election.
A rail worker and union rep at the heart of a crucial battle for jobs is challenging New Labour at the ballot box.
Ballot papers for election to the PCS national executive went out last week.
A hundred members of the PCS civil service workers’ union voted unanimously for a strike ballot at lunchtime meetings in Chorlton, Manchester, on Friday of last week.
The PCS civil service workers’ union was continuing its campaign to defend the redundancy compensation payments scheme at a judicial review this week.
Hundreds of trade unionists in the NHS gathered in Brighton this week for the health conference of the Unison trade union.
More than 100 people attended a Glasgow Campaign to Welcome Refugees public meeting last week to discuss the suicide of the Serykh family.
Tony Woodley, joint general secretary of the Unite union, was briefing union reps at British Airways (BA) as Socialist Worker went to press.
