There was anger last week as Royal Mail announced that it intends to close its final average salary pension scheme to new entrants.
Around 900 members of the PCS and Prospect civil service workers’ unions working for the Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) are balloting for strike action in a dispute over pay.
Thousands of civil service workers in the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) are moving towards strikes after pay talks with management collapsed.
The campaign by the Fire Brigades Union (FBU) to ensure firefighters qualify for ill-health pensions took a step forward this week when the Scottish government pledged to alter regulations to safeguard firefighter pensions in Scotland.
The fight to reinstate Manchester Unison union activist Karen Reissmann to her job as a community psychiatric nurse continues with campaigners this week launching a series of initiatives.
Council workers in Birmingham are set to take further action over the Tory-Liberal Democrat council’s implementation of job cuts under the guise of single status.
The debate around cannabis is once again in the spotlight. The government’s Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD) last week started a review of cannabis classification, the third such review in six years.
The newspapers are terrified. Rowan Williams, the archbishop of Canterbury, has raised the suggestion that some forms of sharia law be introduced as a means of "constructive accommodation" with British Muslims.
Rowan Williams, the archbishop of Canterbury, gave a lecture last week on the Islamic tradition of sharia law and its relationship to the law in Britain.
The bugging scandal that has erupted over the last couple of weeks has cast a harsh light on the concept of "British justice".
Young people in Brixton, south London, packed into a mayoral hustings meeting at The Base on Monday.
New Labour further education minister Bill Rammell is stirring up Islamophobia with claims this week that colleges are under "serious" threat of terrorism.
