London bus workers are debating the strategy they need to win change. The issues are the same at every company – low pay, long hours, more stress, and attacks on pensions.
The Fire Brigades Union (FBU) has finally won an eight-year long legal battle to ensure part-time "retained" firefighters have the same pensions and sick pay rights as their full-time colleagues.
Postal workers in Burslem in Stoke-on-Trent were angry last week after Royal Mail further inflamed tensions at the delivery office at the centre of a long running dispute.
Disabled workers at Sheffield’s Remploy Factory are voting for strike action, over the company changing workers’ conditions and outsourcing work.
The struggle over the implementation of the single status pay deal at Birmingham council has reached a new stage.
Students and anti-war campaigners across the country are rallying to defend the student union at University College London (UCL) from an astonishing attack on democracy.
Alistair Darling’s budget included a huge attack on sick and disabled workers.
Oliur Rahman, a Respect councillor in Tower Hamlets, east London, and a Left List candidate, was on strike this week with fellow civil service workers in the PCS union.
Firefighters in the Merseyside region of the FBU union were set to launch their election challenge to New Labour this week as Socialist Worker went to press.
Activists in South Wales are gearing up for the May council elections. Respect’s Left List candidates are standing in two wards in Swansea and three wards in Cardiff.
Respect’s Left List candidates will be taking on the three mainstream parties across England and Wales this May.
Kris Stewart, the founding chair of the AFC Wimbledon football club, is the Left List candidate in Wandsworth and Merton, while Tansy Hoskins is standing in South West London.
