Local government workers received a huge slap in the face last week when employers offered them a pay rise of just 2.2 percent for 2008.
The result of a strike ballot of RMT union members on London Underground was due this week. The dispute centres on management’s plans to close ticket offices, to introduce agency staff and private security guards into the workforce and to attack safety standards.
A strike by ten rail workers in the RMT union at Network Rail’s electrical control room in York led to the cancellation, on Thursday of last week, of maintenance and contract work on overhead power lines along the East Coast and branch lines.
A crucial time is coming for two high profile health workers who have been victimised by their employers for their trade union activities.
The media has recently been marking the fifth anniversary of the invasion of Iraq – and of the massive anti-war demonstrations that preceded it. One minor hobby horse throughout the coverage has been the supposed dwindling of the anti-war movement since then.
Royal Mail this week threw down the gauntlet to postal workers and their union by deciding to implement its proposed closure of the final salary pensions scheme with just seven days notice.
Teachers at the NUT union conference highlighted the issue of army involvement in education by voting on Tuesday to oppose army recruitment in schools.
Teachers took the lead in the revolt against Gordon Brown’s public sector pay limit last weekend when the NUT union’s conference voted unanimously to call for more strike action.
Campaigners for the NHS in Oxfordshire were celebrating this week after winning their campaign to save maternity services at the Horton hospital in Banbury.
Pitiful fines for corporate deaths The majority of large companies convicted of health and safety offences involving a death are fined at a level which is less than one 700th of their annual turnover, new research shows.
Delegates agreed that this years’ conference of the National Union of Teachers (NUT) was one of the most enthusiastic and left wing ever.
An important debate on classroom behaviour took place at conference, at a time when panic about violence among children is leading to some schools introducing "airport style" metal detectors, on-site police officers and increased surveillance of students.
