Will workers ditch Labour? Postal workers in London will indicate whether they want to continue to fund the Labour Party in a ballot of CWU union members, the result of which was set to be announced this week.
At least 43,000 post workers across Britain will join regional strikes in a massive show of strength on Tuesday of next week.
Firefighters are fighting a wave of cuts across Britain.
A month of all-out strike action by lecturers to defend education and jobs has forced concessions from management at Tower Hamlets College.
Around 600 Leeds refuse workers have been on all‑out strike for more than two weeks in a battle against the Tory/Lib Dem council.
The strike is solid—most bins in Leeds have not been emptied since the action started more than two weeks ago.
The Labour government has completely betrayed the sacked Vestas wind turbine workers.
Union activist Jim Board was reinstated by Doncaster council on Friday of last week.
Gordon Brown plans to slash spending on our public services by billions of pounds. Cuts are already hitting working class people – but important groups of workers are fighting back.
Police smashed up the "blockade camp" outside the Vestas wind turbine factory and held back protesting workers as the company moved wind turbine blades on Tuesday.
War, according to Wikipedia, is "an interaction in which two or more opposing forces have a struggle of wills". It is an apt description of what is happening between workers in the public sector and the government.
The "blockade camp" outside the Vestas wind turbine factory was smashed up by 50 police officers in a dawn raid this morning.
