Support is continuing to build for the People Before Profit Charter, a set of demands put forward by trade unionists and campaigners to improve the lives of working people in the face of rising prices and an economic crisis.
Workers are facing even more devastating price rises on essential foodstuffs, according to figures out this month.
Protesters called for the immediate reinstatement of Virgilio Teixira, a member of the GMB union, at Heathrow Arora Hotel on Friday of last week.
The week-long climate camp in Kent climaxed last Saturday with mass civil disobedience at the Kingsnorth power station, in which some protesters managed to enter the station’s site.
Workers for CBS Outdoor usually spend their time putting up advertising posters in London’s tube and train stations for multinational companies. This week they were putting up strike posters instead.
The Stop the War Coalition has called a national demonstration at the Labour Party conference in Manchester on 20 September to protest against the continuing occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan.
The position of leader of the Scottish Labour Party is up for grabs – in a tightly controlled internal election.
GMB ballot shakes Sellafield Some 2,400 workers in the GMB union at Sellafield in Cumbria will begin balloting for industrial action from 11 August over a below-inflation pay offer of two percent.
Sacked trade union activist and nurse Karen Reissmann is taking her employers to an employment tribunal.
Around 180 Unite union members at two hospitals in Merseyside are set to strike on Thursday and Friday of this week over changes to their pay structure.
Some 91 percent of Unite union members at HSBC bank have said they want to be balloted for strike action over bosses’ plans for their pensions.
Over 300 postal workers and their supporters marched in Bristol on Monday in support of the "Bristol 3" – CWU union members who were sacked after last year’s national strike.
