Ivan Lewis MP lobbied for Karen Reissmann Mental health workers in Manchester lobbied health minister Ivan Lewis on Friday last week to demand the reinstatement of psychiatric nurse and Unison union steward Karen Reissmann.
Over 80 trade unionists gathered in Manchester last Saturday for a successful Organising For Fighting Unions (OFFU) dayschool.
Doctors and Keep Our NHS Public activists in Tower Hamlets, east London, are planning a protest against the privatisation of GP services in the borough.
Over 1,500 aerospace workers went on strike on Monday over pensions.
Should a leading activist with decades of service to the movement be expelled for downloading a leftwing leaflet on a union computer? That is the principle handed down in the Unison union last week.
Around 100 strikers at Royal Mail’s Burslem office, who have been on strike since 18 December, last week agreed to a deal to end their dispute.
An attempt to rejuvenate the Fire Brigades Union (FBU) in London has led to a restructuring and an election for the post of borough secretary in Kensington and Chelsea.
The coordinated strike action by over 150,000 workers in the PCS civil service workers’ union which was planned for Thursday of this week has been suspended following the offer of talks.
Campaigners are stepping up pressure on the government to reintroduce the right to compensation for victims of asbestos exposure after it was revealed that some senior civil servants dismissed resulting diseases as being as harmful "as freckles".
Ireland is the only country in the European Union (EU) that will get to vote on the EU reform treaty, known as the Lisbon treaty. This treaty is a power grab of unprecedented proportion on the part of the EU. It involves the transfer of powers from member states to the European Council and European Commission.
Union leaders last week met chancellor Alistair Darling and other government ministers over public sector pay.
Britain could see its first national teachers’ strike in over 20 years after the National Union of Teachers (NUT) called a ballot for a one-day national strike over pay.
