On the same day that Royal Mail announced the impending closure of mail centres at Oxford and Reading, it said that the Gloucester mail centre would remain open – for the next two years.
Angry demonstrators gathered at HMP Send in Surrey on Thursday of last week following the death of 25 year old Lisa Doe, who was found dead in her cell on 11 September. Lisa is the most recent woman to die in prison in Britain.
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Striking mental health workers in Manchester were planning to take the fight for the reinstatement of union rep Karen Reissmann to the Labour Party conference in Bournemouth this week.
The drums of war against Iran were beating stronger and faster this week.
Iraq is the issue that Gordon Brown would like to avoid. But campaigners are determined that their anti-war message will be heard when they protest outside parliament as MPs return from their summer break on Monday 8 October.
Public sector pay "Gordon Brown praises public services but fails to mention his plans to make millions of public sector workers suffer pay cuts. He wants to impose a 2 percent pay limit on us all. That’s one reason why postal workers are striking next week, and why thousands of other workers want to join the fight."
Desperate to avoid a row at their conference, the Labour leadership look set to offer a deal to save thousands of jobs for disabled people at government-owned Remploy factories. Remploy plans to close 32 of its 83 factories
Gordon Brown got his four minute standing ovation at the Labour Party conference. But that won’t be enough to deal with the disgust and disquiet millions of people feel at what his government has done – at home and abroad.
Over 2,000 workers from across Britain joined the Unite union’s demonstration at the Labour Party conference in Bournemouth last Sunday.
Most union leaders cling to the idea, despite all evidence to the contrary, that their link to the Labour Party is the way to get a Labour government that meets the aspirations of workers.
Around 200 residential and daycare workers employed by Fremantle in Barnet, north London, were set to strike on Thursday of this week.
