The conference of the TSSA rail workers’ union last week debated the union’s relationship with Labour, and in particular Gordon Brown.
Two sacked airport workers in Northern Ireland are on hunger and thirst strike for the second time in a month.
Blackburn with Darwen Refuse workers in Blackburn with Darwen council are planning another one-day strike with a mass rally through Blackburn town centre on Friday of this week.
Around 200 people gathered in Preston Flag market on Thursday of last week to commemorate 60 years of Israeli occupation of Palestine.
Members of the NUJ journalists’ union at Newsquest York were set to strike for five days from Thursday of this week over management’s below-inflation pay offer of 3 percent.
Unite union members working on London’s buses met last week for the London Busworkers Conference.
Bus drivers in the Unite union at Transdev Harrogate and District have voted in favour of strike action over a new driving schedule and rota system.
Almost 600 bus drivers in the Unite union at Brighton and Hove Buses are set to strike over a pay deal that would also make changes to workers’ conditions.
The national council elected at Respect’s annual conference last year met last weekend, joined by branch representatives from around the country. The main subject of discussion was the elections held earlier this month.
Oldham protest against academies Over 100 parents, children, teachers and local residents held a lively and noisy protest at the planned site for one of three proposed city academies in Oldham in Lancashire on Wednesday of last week.
Not content with allowing Royal Mail to close hundreds of post offices around the country as part of a bid to become more market friendly, the government is said to be considering plans to part-privatise the entire postal service.
There is another, less famous May 1968 anniversary this month – the partial collapse of the Ronan Point tower block in Newham, east London. Twenty two storeys high, this block was based on a Danish system that was only designed to go up to six storeys.
