Gordon Brown’s attempts to limit public sector pay are being echoed by bosses in the private sector, who are desperate to increase their profits at the expense of workers.
Workers at Newham council in east London have reacted with fury after the Labour-run council launched an attack on the Unison union.
Over 2,600 members of the RMT and TSSA rail workers’ unions are currently balloting for strike action over threats to jobs and conditions at the failed Metronet consortium on London Underground.
Computer manufacturer Evesham Technology sacked around 150 workers on Friday 3 August without any warnings.
The battle to defend Karen Reissmann, a leading Unison health union activist who has been suspended from her job as a psychiatric nurse, reaches a crucial point this week.
Workers from a Remploy factory for disabled workers marched through Poole on Friday of last week against the closure of a factory at Alder Hills.
Around 30 clerical staff at Morriston hospital in Swansea won a great victory after they walked out unofficially on Thursday of last week.
Paul Coker Paul Coker’s family held a candlelit vigil outside Plumstead police station, south London last week, to mark the second anniversary of his death in police custody.
Some 1,700 workers at helicopter firm Agusta Westland took part in a 24-hour strike on Friday of last week.
Unite, Britain’s largest union, has called a demonstration at the Labour Party conference in Bournemouth on Sunday 23 September.
Three weeks of indefinite strike action by 600 social care workers in the Unison union in Glasgow have won concessions over regrading from the New Labour-run council.
British workers will still have the least entitlement to holidays in the European Union – even after new rights to paid leave come in.
