Preston Respect selects candidate Respect members in Preston have selected local parish councillor Barry Hill as their candidate in the Tulketh ward council by-election.
Leeds workers reject pay deal Leeds council workers in the GMB union have voted two to one against a single status pay deal.
Council workers in Newham, east London, struck on Thursday of last week in defence of their sacked Unison union branch chair Michael Gavan.
The UCU lecturers’ union Further Education Committee (FEC) met on Friday of last week. The ongoing campaign against Gordon Brown’s pay freeze was a major issue.
Bosses have launched a swingeing attack on jobs and courses at Keele university. They want to axe 38 out of 67 academic staff in the Economics and Management Studies School to create a smaller "corporate style" business school.
More than 300 trade unionists from the north east of England last week packed into a social to defend the NHS.
Anti-fascists in the West Midlands celebrated on Thursday of last week after a council by-election saw the British National Party (BNP) beaten into third place in one of its former strongholds.
The RMT rail union held a symbolic funeral outside London’s City Hall on Thursday of last week for the East London tube line – which is due to shut down this Saturday and reopen in 2010 managed by a private consortium. The privatisation plans are being pushed through by London mayor Ken Livingstone.
Migrant workers at a factory which supplies meat to Marks & Spencer (M&S) are suffering from exploitation in a drive to maximise profits, according to a union report.
While European Union (EU) leaders were signing the neoliberal European Treaty last week, the fight over whether the right to make a profit is more fundamental than the rights of workers was continuing in the European courts.
Around 100 postal workers at the Burslem delivery office in Stoke-on-Trent were set to commence a strike over Christmas in a long running campaign against a bullying management.
Mental health workers in Manchester, who are demanding the reinstatement of their union branch chair Karen Reissmann, remain defiant after deciding to suspend their strike.
