Health workers in Manchester who care for people with mental illness are this week taking part in their second three-day strike in defence of their Unison union branch secretary, Karen Reissmann.
Unions call for EU treaty vote Opposition to the neoliberal agenda has pushed trade unions into calling for a referendum on the European "reform treaty" – a rehash of the European Constitution – despite attempts by TUC leaders to get them to soften their position.
Gordon Brown steadfastly refused to give ground on public sector pay restraint in his speech – prompting further anger from workers at the TUC in Brighton.
As part of their month-long series of protests over the closure of Remploy factories, disabled workers attended the TUC Congress in Brighton on Tuesday of this week.
Gordon Brown took a mixture of neoliberal waffle and soft racism to the TUC’s annual Congress in Brighton this week – and got a frosty reception.
Gordon Brown used his speech at the TUC conference in Brighton this week to lecture workers once again on the need for pay restraint to ensure economic stability.
More than 30 Respect supporters were out canvassing in Stonebridge ward in Brent, north west London last Sunday for the council by-election taking place on Thursday of this week. By the end of the day the entire ward had been canvassed.
The powerful strike by tube workers on London Underground has forced management to offer the guarantees that workers in the RMT union have been demanding over pensions and job cuts. The union suspended the action on Tuesday evening.
Workers at a Coca-Cola factory in Milton Keynes struck over pay on Monday.
Anti-nuclear activists from across Britain and around the world met in London last Saturday to discuss the new US moves towards a missile defence system and how this is provoking a new Cold War.
Around 30 Respect supporters from across London joined local activists on the streets of the Stonebridge ward in Brent, north west London, last Sunday for the by-election campaign.
The disaster at the Stockline plastics factory in Glasgow on 11 May 2004, which killed nine workers and injured 40, was caused by years of neglect by the company that ran it and by the government watchdog meant to regulate it, according to a report published this week.
