Support is growing for the People Before Profit Charter, which aims to defend workers’ living standards in the face of looming economic disaster.
Millions of people across Britain are struggling with soaring household energy bills. The government could act to ease the pain by taxing oil and gas firms, or imposing a limit on price rises. Instead it refuses to do anything that would harm profits.
500 bus workers protested in central London demanding better pay and conditions, Thursday 24 July 2008
There was a mood of determination and defiance as up to 500 London bus workers took to the streets earlier today to demand an equal and higher rate of pay across the city.
Alison Beesley is the Unite deputy convenor at Argos’s Basildon depot. She joined the company nine years ago and was one of the first shop stewards when the union was recognised a year later.
The Glasgow Campaign to Welcome Refugees last week coordinated a series of meetings to discuss solidarity with the people of Zimbabwe.
The fascist British National Party (BNP) has called off its planned national rally in Stoke-on-Trent on 9 August. But anti-Nazi activists are remaining on the alert in case the BNP hold their Muslim-bashing event in the city later that month.
More than 40 protesters gathered outside the offices of Pell & Bales in central London on Tuesday last week to give noisy support to CWU union activist Pat Carmody.
Network Rail maintenance workers Around 12,000 Network Rail maintenance workers in the RMT transport union are set to strike from 12 noon this Saturday in a fight to win harmonisation of terms and conditions.
The cost of food, petrol and fuel is going through the roof, with gas bills predicted to hit £1,000 a year in coming years. Meanwhile workers are being told they have to swallow pay cuts in real terms.
A desperate attempt to turn the Hayward school in Bolton into an academy by September came unstuck last week.
Almost a third of 14 years olds taking their Sats tests in English at school will have their results delayed this year thanks to bungling by the private company ETS Europe, which was hired to process their exam papers.
