Leading NHS union activist Yunus Bakhsh faces the verdict in the disciplinary hearing held by his employer this week. Twenty months since he was originally suspended from work, his NHS trust is set to sack him.
Against all the odds the campaign by 200 Fremantle residential care workers to win back their terms and conditions is still on as 95.9 percent voted to reject the company’s latest offer and resume strikes.
Network Rail maintenance strike Over 12,000 Network Rail maintenance workers in the RMT union are set to strike from 12 noon on Saturday to 5.59pm on Sunday.
Delegates at the GMB union conference in Plymouth this week were told about the closure of the Fenland Foods factory in Grantham.
Around 140 workers at the Fujitsu electric components factory in Birmingham struck on Monday of this week in a fight against the transfer of jobs to the US.
Postal workers at five delivery offices in Oxford have asked for strike ballots after Royal Mail managers have forced them to take on extra work, without agreement with the union.
Delegates met at the sector conferences of the Amicus section of the Unite union in Brighton last week.
Postal delegates at the CWU union conference were set to discuss proposals for a national strike against attacks on pensions, mail centre and delivery office closures, and the threat of further privatisation of Royal Mail as Socialist Worker went to press.
GPs will visit Downing Street this week to deliver a petition signed by thousands of patients to Gordon Brown.
The latest British soldiers to die in Afghanistan were sent to their deaths with sickening bravado.
US 'security accords' lay the groundwork for attack on Iran
Councils are deliberately cutting workers’ rights by using temporary staff instead of hiring full-time workers.
