A mass meeting of 160 RMT union reps on London Underground on Monday of this week overwhelmingly voted to reject management’s latest offer to resolve their dispute over pay, redundancies and management bullying.
Can the left unite? Should we deny the Nazi BNP free speech? How deep is this economic crisis?
The fascist British National Party (BNP) is hoping to use its summer "festival" as a rallying point to promote its Nazi politics – but anti-fascists are determined to stop its plans.
A group of racist thugs attempted to march through Birmingham city centre last Saturday chanting anti-Muslim slogans.
Over 500 trade unionists marched in Shrewsbury last weekend to the court where 24 building workers were prosecuted for conspiracy following a construction strike in 1972. The march included delegations from RMT, Ucatt, PCS unions among others and was addressed by Ricky Tomlinson and Arthur Scargill.
Bosses at Signal 1 radio in Stoke-on-Trent have told the NUJ union that they plan to axe two journalists’ jobs. Workers at the station are now balloting for action.
The Unite union has launched a campaign against 27 job losses at the Guardian print centre in London.
Bus workers at First South Yorkshire are set to strike on Friday of this week against a pay freeze. The action will hit services throughout Sheffield, and Rotherham.
The government’s education white paper, published last week, shows just how out of touch ministers are from the real world of schools. Its ideas are neither new nor workable.
Teachers at Haggerston School for Girls in Hackney, east London, are set to strike on Thursday of this week against job cuts.
