Workers in East Lothian could take industrial action after the local authority decided to sack more than 1,500 workers and re-employ them on worse conditions.
Over 50 angry and worried GMB union members, demonstrated outside Leeds Civic Hall on Wednesday of last week. The union wanted to lobby the council meeting, to show its opposition to pay cuts of up to £6,000 a year included in the council’s single status deal.
The campaign for the rights of agency workers is becoming a crucial test of Labour’s relationship to the unions.
Birmingham council bosses have been forced into a significant climbdown over their attempt to cut wages in the name of equal pay.
Up and down Britain council workers are being saddled with Gordon Brown’s public sector pay freeze – and at the same time face councils using single status to attack them.
There should be a centre like this in every community – a reclaimed factory that has been turned into a community centre, with workshops and music studios.
Attempts by Royal Mail managers at the Burslem delivery office in Stoke on Trent to hamper the CWU union by sacking and disciplining reps is continuing.
London has lost 30 percent of its post offices since 2004 when the government announced plans to make the service "more efficient".
Bosses at Royal Mail, who last week were revealed to have awarded themselves bonuses of over £4.5 million, this week wrote to their staff to announce the closure of the company’s pension scheme.
Thousands of Turkish troops have launched an attack into northern Iraq in a dangerous escalation of their war against Kurdish separatists.
"I have never heard anything like that sound ever before in my life. It shocked me and filled me with such terror."
Millions around the world are facing a future of insecurity, starvation and malnutrition as the price of basic food soars. The price of maize, wheat, soya beans and rice – staples for the majority of the world’s population – have more than doubled in the last few years.
