The construction union Ucatt has criticised the failure of the government to outline any plans to deal with the issue of pleural plaques.
In the end all it took was a well-aimed shoe. US president George Bush faced his final humiliation when an Iraqi journalist pelted him with his size 10s during the president’s "farewell trip" to the country he destroyed.
Kirklees Unison union members in West Yorkshire have responded magnificently to the employer’s threat to sack and re-hire the whole workforce of 12,500.
Some 250 drivers at First Hampshire and Dorset, based in Southampton, are set to hold two one-day strikes in the run-up to Christmas, with a third strike set for the new year.
Workers at First Bus in Aberdeen have voted by 304 to 64 to accept an improved pay offer of 4.5 percent plus a one-off payment of £100 and full back pay to 1 April.
The fascist British National Party (BNP) was thoroughly routed on Wednesday of last week when 300 people from Brighton & Hove shattered attempts to launch a BNP branch in the city.
The government’s long-awaited independent review of the primary curriculum, which was published last week, will disappoint anyone hoping to see an end to the hated SATs tests.
"I heard them say, ‘This is definitely our man’."Charlie 2, one of the firearms officers who shot Jean Charles de Menezes, claiming that surveillance officers identified Jean Charles as a target
Bus workers in the Unite union have vowed to oppose plans unveiled by Transport for London (TfL) to privatise East Thames Buses, London’s only publicly-owned bus operator.
Drivers at Stagecoach Bluebird in north east Scotland have called off planned action after accepting a revised pay offer that takes basic pay to £9 an hour. The deal is a slight improvement on management’s previous offer.
Some 500 bus drivers employed by First Bus in Bradford were voting on a revised pay offer as Socialist Worker went to press. If the offer is rejected the workers will strike for three days from Wednesday of this week.
