More than a quarter of a million civil service workers could be striking in the new year against a major attack on their conditions.
Startling profit figures released by Royal Mail last week give the lie to bosses’ claims that the company must ram through cuts or die.
Teachers will hold a formal ballot on whether to boycott hated Sats tests after the NUT union last week announced that 75 percent of those voting in an indicative ballot want action.
London College of Communication Lecturers at the London College of Communication are set to ballot for industrial action against the threat of compulsory redundancies.
A quickly organised meeting to defend the Whittington hospital in north London last week saw more than 250 angry residents and health workers come together to demand that the hospital’s accident and emergency unit is safeguarded.
The family and friends of Habib "Paps" Ullah, who died in police custody last year, are to hold a vigil on what would have been Habib’s 41st birthday.
Evidence is continuing to be heard at an inquest into the death of Mikey Powell. Mikey died six years ago in a prison cell at Thornhill Road police station after being arrested outside his family home in Lozells, Birmingham.
About 50 taxi drivers in Chelmsford, Essex, demonstrated last Saturday against the council’s deregulation of licenses.
Signal workers Signalling staff in the Wales and the Marches Operations area began a six-day strike on Monday of this week.
London’s Tory mayor Boris Johnson is preparing a £5 billion cuts programme on London Underground, which will mean the closure of 144 station ticket offices and threats to 1,200 jobs.
Occupying the CBI’s Scottish headquarters Student supporters of the Right to Work campaign occupied the Scottish headquarters of the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) in Glasgow, taking their anger at cuts in education and services to Britain’s most powerful pro-business group.
More than 100,000 protesters gathered in the Danish capital of Copenhagen last Saturday to demand that world leaders take serious action on climate change.
