‘I work for £6 per hour for Response Handling, an outsourced student loans call centre. We’re here to put out fires when raging students and parents phone to find out what’s going on with applications they made months ago.
Marie is a home help in Glasgow. She looks after all sorts of people in their own homes, from the frail elderly to younger people with mental illnesses who are unable to care for themselves.
Bosses at a factory near Huddersfield have banned music on the shopfloor – but workers say they won’t suffer in silence.
Doncaster College The national attack on further education has returned to Doncaster College. The first attack was repelled in early summer by determined action that resulted in the fall of the then principal Rowland Foote and the finance manager.
The Student Stop the War conference in London last Saturday brought 120 delegates from across the country together to discuss the tasks of the anti-war movement.
The pressure on the union leaders over their loyalty to the Labour government emerged on the conference floor of the TUC last week.
The Trade Union Congress in Liverpool last week voted to support a boycott of goods from illegal Israeli settlements along with a call for an end to arms sales to the country.
Some 150 workers and their supporters marched through Holyhead to the Anglesey Aluminium smelter, last Saturday.
Thousands of workers at Corus are to be balloted on industrial action over the steel group’s plans to close its final salary pension scheme to new entrants.
Drivers at Travel London West’s Hayes garage have voted unanimously to reject a pay offer from management and by 41 to three for strike action.
The ongoing attack on local government workers across Britain took a dangerous step forward earlier this month as Lancashire County Council attempted to restrict the ability of trade unionists to represent their members.
Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, the man wrongly convicted of the 1988 Lockerbie bombing, has published documents on the internet to prove his innocence.
