The PCS civil service workers’ union is to launch a campaign, which could involve industrial action, for better conditions for call centre staff in the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP).
Striking refuse workers in Leeds have forced the council into a dramatic climbdown in their bitter dispute over planned cuts that would see some workers lose £6,000 a year.
All 260 workers at Crown Aerosols in Sutton-in-Ashfield, Nottinghamshire, walked out on unofficial strike on Monday in support of suspended print union steward Andy Kirk.
The NUJ Left conference on Saturday of last week discussed the changing dynamic of trade union struggle and the role of the left within the NUJ journalists’ union and the movement.
Socialist Worker explains why the Western occupation of Afghanistan must end—and why you should join Saturday’s anti-war demonstration
The bloody cost of the Afghan war has provoked unprecedented opposition among soldiers and their families.
Members of the EIS teaching union and the UCU lecturers’ union turned out at the Employment Tribunal offices in Edinburgh to demonstrate their support for victimised safety rep, Penny Gower.
The reality of Israel’s brutal onslaught on Gaza at the beginning of the year was laid bare at the United Nations Human Rights Council last week.
Cleaners on the Eurostar trains at St Pancras International station in central London are set to strike on Friday and Sunday in the next stage of their fight for justice.
The striking firefighters in South Yorkshire (for strike report see page 6) are fighting cuts on a massive scale.
The campaign to stop an estimated 200 redundancies at the University of the Arts in London took a major step forward last week.
Workers at London Metropolitan University struck on Thursday and Friday of last week against job losses and course cuts.
