Across the globe the scale of the economic crisis is becoming clearer every day as more job losses, factory closures and cutbacks are announced.
Workers in Britain are threatened by a mass cull of jobs on a scale not seen since the grim days of Margaret Thatcher’s 1980s Tory government.
The PCS national executive committee has voted to suspend the strike over pay by 270,000 civil service workers, which was set to take place on Monday.
Teachers in the NUT union have voted narrowly in favour of taking several days of national strike action against their below-inflation pay offer.
Millions of people are celebrating across the world today after Barack Obama was elected as the first black president of the United States – a momentous achievement in a country with a long history of entrenched and vicious racism.
Any belief that Gordon Brown’s government is going to back workers rights took another blow as the government voted down a series of amendments to the Employment Bill that would have given limited rights to workers in industrial disputes.
Solicitors’ firm Bircham Dyson Bell was at the centre of legal action against the recent bus strike and the injunction against last year’s post strike.
Demonstrators blocked the doorstep to stop the eviction of 72 year old Rubie Curl-Pinkins, a disabled woman who has lived in her Detroit home for 45 years.
The government was boasting last month of its plans to ensure that half a million people would be entitled to the full state pension despite not having paid sufficient national insurance (NI).
Tens of thousands of telecom workers face having to work an extra five years before they can retire.
Ministers and employers are gearing up for yet another assault on our pension rights – including renewed attempts to raise the retirement age – and we need to prepare to fight back.
East Midlands unity to stop Nazis Some 120 people came to the launch meeting for East Midlands Unite Against Fascism (UAF) on Saturday of last week.
