‘There can be no more chilling form of inequality than someone’s social status at birth determining the timing of their death," said the health secretary Alan Johnson in a speech on 12 September last year.
Unison union activists were outraged to hear that their union leadership had commenced a disciplinary hearing into Yunus Bakhsh, the highly respected health worker and trade unionist.
Some 140 post workers at Keighley delivery office in West Yorkshire are being balloted on industrial action over Royal Mail failing to stick to the terms of the recently signed Phase 3 of the Pay and Modernisation Agreement.
The next few months will be crucial for postal workers, as Royal Mail starts a new round of automation.
Cleaners working for OCS on Eurostar leafleted cricket fans arriving at the Brit Oval for the one-day international last Friday.
Lecturers in the UCU union are returning to colleges and universities this week with a flurry of ballots for action over pay and conditions.
Hundreds of workers at the conciliation service Acas have voted to go on strike over pay.
Scottish council pay talks collapsed this week as it became clear that bosses from the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities (COSLA) wanted to have their cake and eat it.
Following on from the magnificent local government workers’ strike in Scotland last month, another group of workers have taken strike action.
Workers at Swissport have voted to accept an improved pay offer of 4 percent for 2008-2009 backdated to 1 April.
A worker at Marks & Spencer who revealed plans to cut redundancy pay for the firm’s 70,000 staff has been suspended and is facing a disciplinary hearing.
The Transport Salaried Staffs Association (TSSA) said 27 of its members at Arriva Trains Wales would start a work-to-rule from Thursday of this week.
