Members of the UCU lecturers’ union at Nottingham Trent University are angry at management’s announcement that they are giving three months notice to end the current recognition agreement.
Around 50,000 people attended this year’s Durham Miners’ Gala – the premier labour movement event in the north east of England – last Saturday. Many there were angry with the government.
A 24-hour strike by more than 1,000 Argos warehouse and distribution workers is set to hit the giant retail chain on Thursday this week. It will likely cause chaos as stores fail to receive their normal deliveries.
The battle for a military outpost in a forgotten corner of Afghanistan has vividly exposed the turmoil inside the Nato-led occupation of the country.
The war in Afghanistan is spiralling so dangerously out of control that it now threatens to engulf Pakistan, in a process that is being actively encouraged by Nato.
Several migrant workers who are fighting for decent pay and conditions on London Underground have been suspended by an employer.
Over 80 members of Unite struck for a third day on Monday of this week at C Brown Steels, Brierley Hill, West Midlands, in a dispute over pay. Their demand for a 6 percent increase has been met by a management offer of 3.5 percent now and 2 percent next year.
Harassment of trade unionists in Zimbabwe has continued since the election.
Sheila Foley, the chief executive of Manchester Mental Health and Social Care trust has resigned following a damning report into the trust's service provision.
US warplanes killed at least 27 women and children who were escorting a bride to a wedding party in Afghanistan last Sunday.
The US is so bogged down in Iraq and Afghanistan that recent threats by Israel to attack Iran’s nuclear sites has sent waves of panic through the US military.
