Students occupying at the School of Oriental and African Studies (Soas) have won an important victory in their campaign to win justice for deported and detained cleaners from the school.
Around 25 cleaners and their supporters lobbied Tory mayor Boris Johnson at City Hall in London today to demand that he fulfils his promise to guarantee the London Living Wage of £7.60 an hour to all cleaners working on Greater London Authority (GLA) and Transport for London (TfL) contracts in the city.
The open letter to the left is a good move. We desperately need to make the things that unite us count more than the things that divide us.
Thousands of RMT transport union members on London Underground and Transport for London responded magnificently to a series of attacks on them by taking part in a solid 48-hour strike last week.
The RMT and London Underground management are to hold talks over the dispute in the coming days.
Jobs London Underground is cutting 1,000 jobs while Transport for London could slash 3,000 jobs. Neither company has ruled out compulsory redundancies.
Leaders of the Aslef train drivers’ union told their members to continue to work as normal during the strike.
For the first time in many years delegates to the CWU union’s telecom conference threw out a proposal from our executive.
It was standing room only as 120 tenants from the Regents Park Estate in Camden, north London, attended a meeting called by Keep our NHS Public last week about plans for a new so-called "GP-led health centre".
Members of the Unison union at London Metropolitan University are balloting for industrial action over planned job cuts.
Activists in Barrow, Cumbria, opposed to turning comprehensive schools into academies have called a protest on Friday of this week.
An angry protest against the threat of job losses at Hackney Community College took place on Thursday of last week.
