British Airways (BA) workers are furious at management plans for job and pay cuts at the airline.
AS politicians vie with each other to express their sympathies for British soldiers who have been killed in Afghanistan – soldiers that they all voted to send – a brave young man stands ready to be jailed for refusing to fight.
‘In 2006 my regiment was posted to Afghanistan for seven months. And if I had to describe my feelings about the tour in one word, I would say "confused".
Postal workers from across London began three days of strike action today. The action which involves some 11,000 Royal Mail employees has brought postal services in the capital to a halt.
More than 100 contract workers inside the Ford complex in Southampton are voting on industrial action over pay. The workers are at Penske Logistics which works on site at the giant Southampton plant.
Nine Pakistani students arrested as "terror suspects" but released without charge in April are now awaiting deportation.
Members of the Unite union at Tesco’s distribution facility in Chepstow in Wales are set to be balloted for industrial action over the company’s decision to relocate them eight miles over the border in Avonmouth, Bristol.
Finance workers at the Capita company in Glasgow are set to strike on Friday of this week over pay.
Angry council contractors in the Ucatt union demonstrated outside Great Yarmouth town hall on Thursday of last week over a cut in their wages and hours. The building maintenance workers are losing about £2,000 a year under new contracts.
Over 120 workers at the Euston Tower offices of the Revenue & Customs department in central London met last week to launch a campaign to stop the centralisation of Estate and Support Services (ESS).
South Yorkshire fire authority is threatening to sack 744 of its firefighters at the end of the year if they do not accept changes to their contracts, according to the FBU union.
There is fury among British Airways workers at plans to cut costs through thousands of job losses and a two-year pay freeze.
