Around 200 trade unionists attended an Organising For Fighting Unions meeting in central London on Wednesday of last week.
Campaigners across the country highlighted threats to Esol (English for Speakers of Other Languages) provision on Wednesday of last week.
The fight to reinstate Michael Gavan, chair of Newham Unison local government, was bolstered last week when a rally of 200 people was addressed by a range of speakers including film maker Ken Loach. Ken also introduced a special preview of his new film It’s A Free World.
Hundreds of workers building one of Wales’s biggest engineering projects went on strike last week because one of them was taunted with Nazi salutes.
The looming confrontation between Birmingham council and 40,000 of its workers will move a step closer this week when two important trade union meetings take place.
Hundreds of thousands of members of the Unison union in local government are set to be balloted to strike over pay.
Workers at the Fremantle residential and daycare company in Barnet, north London, took their campaign to the bosses’ headquarters during a strike on Thursday of last week.
The fact that many food additives are very harmful has been public knowledge for over 30 years. Two decades ago the disclosure that the red dye ponceau 4R caused allergic reactions such as skin rashes and hyperactivity led to its removal from brands such as Ribena and Smarties.
Last week’s announcement by the postal workers’ CWU union that strikes against Royal Mail are to be resumed was greeted with enthusiasm by union activists across Britain.
A group of postal workers from London went to lobby the Labour Party conference in Bournemouth on Monday of this week. Martin Walsh, the postal workers’ CWU union London divisional rep, spoke to Socialist Worker about the growing tensions between the union and New Labour.
In a clear case of "If you can’t beat ‘em, close ‘em", Royal Mail announced the proposed closure of Oxford mail centre in 2009 – with the loss of up to 430 jobs – just hours after the CWU union announced further national strike action.
Postal workers in Watford who are performing their duties exactly as per their contract are being disciplined – for breaking company rules!
