Gordon Brown’s 2 percent public sector pay policy will come under renewed assault as over 8,500 workers in the Department for Transport were set to strike against his plans on Friday of this week.
The Labour government is still lying over its complicity in the use of kidnapping and torture in the "war on terror".
Former SAS soldier Ben Griffin has spoken out against the government’s latetst claims that it did not know about CIA torture flights.
Over 250,000 teachers in the NUT union will be balloted from Thursday of this week on whether to hold a one-day strike over their below-inflation pay offer. If teachers vote yes in the ballot it could lead to the first national teachers strike in over 20 years.
The "progressive" face of New Labour’s academy programme slipped this week, after a leading academy sponsor spoke of his desire to deny parents the right to appeal over exclusions and described teaching unions as a "block to reform".
National Union of Teachers (NUT) members at Darton High School in Barnsley, South Yorkshire, began striking for three days from Tuesday of this week, followed by another three day strike starting on Tuesday of next week.
My brother José Couso, a cameraman for the Spanish Tele5 TV station, was murdered in Baghdad on 8 April 2003 during a military operation by the US army.
Protests against the privatisation of the NHS are continuing outside the Virgin Healthcare roadshow that tours Britain.
Disabled workers at Remploy in Merseryside and York struck last week in an attempt to save their jobs.
The first election for the national executive of the new Unite union is set to begin on Monday of next week.
The election for national executive positions in the University and College Union (UCU) ends shortly.
Council workers in Waltham Forest, north London, were set to march to protest over cutbacks on Thursday of this week. The council cabinet approved a budget last week that included cuts of £14 million.
