Workers protested outside the Cadbury’s factory in Keynsham, Somerset, on Thursday of last week against plans to close it down.
The farce of a "union" without any members representing workers at the Racing Post newspaper was ended last week when the British Association of Journalists (BAJ) was reported to have withdrawn from its recognition agreement.
The Metropolitan Police commander who ordered the shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes knew the Brazilian was not one of the 21 July bombers some time before he was killed, a court heard last week.
Members of the UCU college union in further education are preparing for an industrial action ballot over pay. Any action would be in opposition to the 2.55 percent pay offer we have rejected for this year.
Steve Sinnott, the general secretary of the NUT teachers’ union, last week told local divisional secretaries that if a pay offer of 2 percent was not improved union members of the NUT would be balloted for action early in the new year.
Last weekend’s Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) annual conference was held in the run-up to the organisation’s 50th birthday celebrations next February.
The threat of thousands of redundancies at the BBC is a massive attack on broadcasting workers and any remaining prospects for independent news coverage.
Tackling climate change means cutting carbon emissions drastically. We have to start now – that’s clear. But there’s confusion over what to do about air travel.
Karen Reissmann, the Manchester psychiatric nurse at the centre of a long running industrial dispute, was suspended for speaking out against a cuts and privatisation plan not very different to those that proved so disastrous at Maidstone and Tunbridge.
Last week’s Healthcare Commission report into patient deaths at the Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS trust is truly shocking.
Workers at end of their tether Workers at a rope and wire manufacturing company in Lanarkshire have struck over pay.
Some 220 day centre workers in Glasgow began an indefinite strike on Tuesday of this week.
