Do you want to find out how your union is being run? Well, be prepared to stump up over £500. That is the dangerous conclusion of a court case brought by the Unison union against leading activist Yunus Bakhsh.
Activists gathered in Liverpool city centre for a mass leafleting last Saturday in protest at police harassment of political stalls.
Members of the NUT teachers union in Bolton scored a significant victory last week in our ongoing campaign against academies in the town.
Bank workers in the Unite union at the State Bank of India have voted overwhelmingly to strike over pay, and their terms and conditions.
There is a political crisis at the top of the Unite union with an emergency executive council last week agreeing to delay the full merger of the former T&G and Amicus sections for six months.
Effective strike action last week by 450 rail signallers and signal supervisors in the RMT transport union in Scotland has won serious gains from their Network Rail employer. The workers were angry at the company’s plans to impose roster changes at short notice.
Abortion rights are under attack again – and we have less than a week to mobilise to defend them.
The result of the ballot of 2,500 London Underground maintenance workers at the Metronet company was to be announced on Wednesday of this week. The workers were voting about striking over the victimisation of health and safety rep Andy Littlechild.
Management at Metrobus, part of the Go-Ahead transport group, went to the High Court just hours before last week’s strike. They won a ruling to stop 1,000 drivers in the Unite union taking their second day of strike action.
The stakes are rising in the London bus workers' pay campaign, with around 5,000 workers striking last Friday and workers at two major companies voting overwhelmingly to join an even bigger strike on Wednesday of next week.
The crisis is also threatening financial meltdown at new hospitals built under the Private Finance Initiative (PFI) as NHS trusts find it difficult to refinance their debts.
Gordon Brown’s decision to gamble £500 billion of public money in an attempt to stem the crisis in the banking industry has stuck in the throats of millions.
