Over 3,000 British Airways (BA) workers crammed into an electric mass meeting at the Sandown racecourse on Monday of this week, as their Unite union prepared for a strike ballot.
Babar Ahmad is a south London IT worker who has been in jail for five years. The Metropolitan Police admitted to beating him up in December 2003 and paid him £60,000 in compensation.
Nazi Nick Griffin narrowly dodged a hail of eggs as he scurried in the back door of a local radio station in Hamilton, Lanarkshire, yesterday.
Cleaners on the Eurostar trains at St Pancras International station in central London called off their strikes set for Friday and Sunday of last week in return for talks at the Acas conciliation service.
The Unite union is set to ballot its members on London Underground for industrial action over pay.
Some 49 elderly tenants at Campbell Court, Haringey, north London, are celebrating after the council dropped plans to move out the existing residents.
The People’s Charter for Change provides the Left with an opportunity to rally to a set of demands that smash the current all-party and media consensus on what needs to be done to tackle the economic crisis.
Despite a 96 percent vote in favour of strike action, the NUJ union has withdrawn the threat of action at Media Wales group in Cardiff.
Some 130 members of the PCS union at the UK Border Agency have voted by 97 percent for action.
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has announced that it is to compulsorily transfer 5,000 staff into call centres – which it says are "contact centres".
The Land Registry department last week announced plans to close five offices and threaten 1,100 jobs.
Around 750 drivers at First Bus in Sheffield struck for three days last week in a dispute over disciplinary and sickness procedures.
