Council workers in Scotland have been offered an additional 0.5 percent pay rise this year – but at the price of accepting a two-year deal.
While bus workers’ lives are dominated by the stress of living on low pay and working long hours, private bus operators are reaping in record profits.
Up to 6,000 London bus workers across different companies will strike over pay on Friday of this week. This will be followed by an even bigger strike on
While Gordon Brown rushed to guarantee the savings of the tiny minority who have over £35,000 stashed in a bank, millions of us were lying awake worrying about our jobs, homes, pensions and how we can afford to put food on the table.
This week our front page declares "capitalism isn’t working" – a subversion of the Tories’ 1979 "Labour isn’t working" election poster that reflected anger at growing unemployment.
The Metropolitan Police Service has been plunged into crisis after Sir Ian Blair, the Met’s commissioner and Britain’s most senior police officer, was forced to resign by London mayor Boris Johnson.
Gordon Brown’s spin doctors rushed to proclaim that Peter Mandelson’s shock return to the cabinet last week underscored the prime minister’s "pro-business" stance at a time of growing economic turmoil.
It’s official – the occupation of Afghanistan is "doomed to fail". That stark warning comes from the top British commander and the top British diplomatic envoy to Afghanistan.
Ian Blair the chief of the Metropolitan Police force has resigned – and London is a slightly safer place because of it.
Thousands of London bus workers in the Unite union look set to take part in united strike action in the second half of October.
Pickets were out in force in Scotland on Wednesday of last week in a strike over the renegotiation of a below-inflation 2.5 percent pay offer.
Scottish Water workers to ballot Workers at Scottish Water could be the latest public sector workers to take industrial action over a 2.4 percent pay rise.
