"Pathetic", "laughable and "insulting". Those were the responses of angry health workers when shown their latest pay offer from the government.
A new report reveals that business fraud in Britain has risen by 42 percent compared to the same period last year. Some £538 million was defrauded in the first half of 2007. The amount is soaring due to the number of frauds over £50,000.
Labour’s city academy schools are excluding almost three times more pupils than neighbouring schools.
Concerns have been raised about safety and funding at the Pirbright laboratory in Surrey, which was linked last week to the foot and mouth disease outbreak in nearby farms.
New Labour’s anti-terror legislation is being used this week against protesters wanting to take part in the climate camp near Heathrow airport.
The climate camp is being supported by people in the local community, one of the protesters told Socialist Worker:
Respect has beaten off a by-elction challenge from Labour's former council leader Michael Keith in Tower Hamlets, east London. The Shadwell ward by-election was held on Thursday 9 August 2007.
Newham Council has launched on an attack on the Unison Union. Michael Gavan, Unison branch chair has been suspended by the council and banned from any contact with union members.
Socialist Worker online’s unparalleled coverage of the post strikes has been a huge success.
More details of the appalling exploitation of migrant workers by a pizza company are coming to light.
The pro-US Iraqi government has outlawed the country’s oil workers’ union under a law passed during the regime of Saddam Hussein.
The ministry of Defence (MoD) has commissioned a marketing company to sell the war in our schools.
