The credit crisis means that thousands more people will need free legal advice on redundancy, repossessions and debt.
Workers at the 2 Sisters Food Group in the Unite union are balloting for industrial action over low pay.
Train managers in the RMT and TSSA transport unions at Eurostar have voted overwhelmingly to strike after the company imposed new rosters. This breaches an agreement that requires new shift patterns to be negotiated and approved by union reps.
Patients at the Laurels Healthy Living Centre in Tottenham, north London, were incensed last week when the local primary care trust (PCT) board meeting refused to hear our case against the proposed privatisation of our GP surgery.
Health workers are being treated like dirt by Gordon Brown’s government. We face pay cuts, privatisation and job losses.
The fight for decent public sector pay was delivered a heavy setback this week as the national executive of the PCS civil service workers’ union voted to accept a government agreement in its long-running dispute.
Up to 2,000 Scottish Water workers struck on Thursday of last week in protest at a below-inflation pay rise.
As part of a response to the economic crisis, the London region of UCU took the initiative in calling an Alternative Economic Summit on Monday of last week.
Some 200 people attended the Defend Council Housing (DCH) conference on Tuesday of last week.
Around 100 teachers, parents, and children braved the Manchester rain to listen to contributors to the book "Tell It Like It Is – How our schools fail black children" on Monday of last week.
Over 30 UCU union members from the Yorkshire and Humberside and Northern regions attended a conference in York last Saturday titled, "Challenging the market in education".
Community groups, students, teachers and a wide range of local people from Hackney, Tottenham and Islington in north east London came together on Thursday of last week to a local launch meeting of CALL (Campaigning Alliance for Lifelong Learning). Around 120 people packed into the meeting.
