Acas ballot at lack of talks Over 630 PCS civil service workers’ union members at the Acas conciliation service are balloting for strikes over pay.
Workers in East North East Homes Leeds (ENEHL) were set to take a second day of strike action on Thursday of this week. The strike is in defence of their trade union rights and Unison union convenor, John McDermott.
A strike by residential care workers in Glasgow due to take place on Wednesday of this week was called off after workers in the Unison union voted to accept an improved offer from the council.
A company that profits from the privatisation of public services has been awarded over £5 million in a government grant to set up a base in Scotland.
Scotland’s public sector looks set to be brought to a standstill when up to 150,000 local government workers strike against below-inflation pay offers on Wednesday of next week.
Up to 1,200 council workers in Bury were left stunned and angry last week after being told their wages will be cut – by as much as £7,500.
Some 200 Fremantle care workers in the Unison union in Barnet, north London, struck for one hour on Thursday of last week in their continuing campaign against the company’s attacks on their terms and conditions. The workers were outsourced to private company Fremantle from Barnet council. In early 2007, Fremantle bosses sacked the workers and re-employed them on worse terms and conditions. The new contracts meant that workers’ pay was cut by roughly a third
Alexander Solzhenitsyn, the great Russian writer who died this month, was an unparalleled witness to the Gulag – Joseph Stalin’s system of slave labour camps.
The number of house repossessions hit a 12 year high last week, leaping 48 percent in just six months.
The official rate of inflation soared to record levels this week at the same time as millions of workers across Britain are told they have to "tighten their belts" and swallow below-inflation pay deals.
Trade unionists and other anti-Nazi activists will be gathering in Codnor, Derbyshire, on Saturday of this week to protest against the "Red, White and Blue" event being held there by the fascist British National Party (BNP).
Royal Mail has launched a vicious assault on the postal service, threatening to axe up to 35,000 jobs and close dozens of sorting offices.
