Civil service workers, like all public sector workers, face endemic low pay – contrary to government and media propaganda. A quarter of the PCS union’s members are on £15,000 a year or less.
So evolution "expert" Bruce Charlton has at last discovered why working class students are under-represented at top universities. Is it perhaps the elitist nature of the selection process?
There is growing outrage over the arrest of Nottingham university student Rizwaan Sabir and staff member Hicham Yezza.
Lee Donovan was arrested in Newport, South Wales, at around 10pm on Friday 25 April. He was taken to a police cell in nearby Pontypool at 10.45pm. By 1am the next morning he was dead.
The first executive council (EC) of Unite, the new union formed from the merger of Amicus and the T&G, took office on 1 May and held its first meeting last week.
Around 130 people gathered in Mitcham, south London, last Saturday, for a discussion and cultural event that addressed the issue of gun and knife crime.
There was a strong mood of simmering anger against New Labour at the Fire Brigades Union (FBU) annual conference held in Southport, Merseyside, last week.
Angry residents’ reps from Island Homes on the Isle of Dogs in east London demonstrated against managing director George Sheerin on Wednesday of last week in protest at the sacking of the resident-led board.
The conference of the PCS civil service workers’ union in Brighton last week reaffirmed the union’s commitment to the battles over public sector pay and against the fascist British National Party (BNP) – see pages 2 and 5.
Every health worker knows their first duty is to ensure no harm comes to those they are caring for. NHS trusts have a duty of care that is enshrined in law.
A shocking story is emerging from Yunus’s continuing battle to clear his name within his Unison union.
George Bush is a dangerous and desperate man – and now he is coming to Britain.
