Over seven hundred people gathered in central London last weekend for a Marxist conference.
Talks are continuing between the Fujitsu Services IT company and the Unite union in an effort to resolve an important dispute about pensions, pay and jobs.
Up to 150 campaigners joined a march through Plymouth last Saturday against the council’s plans to sell off the city’s bus company.
Voting is continuing in the crucial election for general secretary of the PCS civil service workers’ union.
Cleaners on Virgin West Coast line services have struck for two 24 hour periods in their fight over pay and conditions.
After months of negotiation, unofficial strikes and official ballots, the national agreement in construction has finally been pushed through.
The first employment tribunal arising out of the construction industry blacklisting scandal is due to be heard in January, with dozens more set to take place throughout next year.
Dubai, the once-gleaming playground of the rich, has become the latest victim of the global financial chaos. Its powerful investment arm, Dubai World, is close to bankruptcy, and its fate dependent on the largess of other Arab governments.
Last year Gordon Brown visited Dubai and, with his usual level of insight, praised the country for helping mitigate the global financial crisis.
"Unbelievable, literally". That was the response of one economist at US investment bank Goldman Sachs to the news last month that Britain was still in recession.
Ninety delegates attended the first national conference of the Unite union’s local government sector last week. From the start, there was argument against the union’s call for activists to build support for New Labour in next year’s general election.
The Sun newspaper is not known for its sympathetic portrayal of asylum seekers—so Urginia Mauluka was a little surprised to get a call saying that it wanted to interview her about her experiences.
