New Labour is in crisis and it is responding by increasing attacks on ordinary people—including slashing jobs, attacking public services and freezing pay.
Post workers in London in the CWU union are so fed up with the way they have been treated by the government that activists have launched a consultative ballot to see if members want to continue supporting the Labour party.
The government is to hand over schools to businesses—for free. It announced this week that it is dropping the requirement for academy sponsors to make a donation to take over schools.
Strikes by postal workers in many parts of Britain are hitting Royal Mail hard, with millions of letters and packets clogging up mail centres and sorting offices.
Gordon Brown’s support for the poisonous "British jobs for British workers" slogan went up a little further this week when the government announced new employment rules.
Over 200 refuse and street cleaning workers in Leeds walked out on indefinite strike on Monday of this week in a dispute over pay.
Around 100 workers at the Two Sisters poultry processing firm in Smethwick, in the West Midlands, have been taking all out strike action against racism.
Rail workers at London Midland hit back at their penny-pinching bosses last week by refusing to work on Sunday after the company decided to axe double pay.
Liverpool airport baggage handlers forced their bosses to back off from making compulsory redundancies.
Workers will show who has power National Grid workers in Newcastle are set to strike on Friday of this week over plans to outsource work, which they fear will lead to job losses.
Firefighters across Britain are facing attacks that pose a threat to our fire service—and they are fighting back.
The war raging on construction sites reached a temporary ceasefire this week as the employers backed down over attacks on the new national agreement or "blue book".
