The campaign to demand justice for all those caught out by the collapse of money transfer firm First Solution is gathering pace, with Respect MP George Galloway securing a Commons adjournment debate on the issue scheduled for 4pm on Wednesday of this week.
Two bereaved mothers are accusing police officers of manhandling them and shoving them around on a demonstration outside Holloway women's prison in north London on Monday of last week. The demonstration was called by veteran prisoner welfare campaigner Pauline Campbell after the death of Marie Cox in the prison on 30 June.
Salvinder Singh Dhillon, the Respect candidate in this Thursday’s parliamentary by-election in Ealing Southall, joined striking postal workers at Greenford on Friday of last week. Respect supporters were campaigning in the constituency up to the last minute. Check this site for election results
The people of Burnley are demanding answers after 28 year old Nadeem Khan – known as Dean – died in police custody on Saturday 30 June.
Workers at Coca Cola Enterprise's largest bottling and distribution centre – in Wakefield – will stage a series of 48 hour strikes on 26 and 27 July and 13 and 14 August.
"The industry has come to be seen as needlessly secretive, feeding suspicion and in some quarters close to hostility," said Sir David Walker at the launch of a review on the private equity industry.
Durham Miners’ gala PCS civil service workers’ union members were part of the 100,000 strong Durham miners’ gala last weekend
The attempt by the Unison union to discipline Yunus Bakhsh, one of its best known left wing activists, continues to force the union’s leadership into some tortuous manoeuvres.
Some 200 council tenants and trade unionists joined MPs at the Defend Council Housing (DCH) national conference last week. Many spoke about campaigning for the "fourth option" – direct public investment in council housing.
The campaign to defend nurse and health union activist Karen Reissmann from victimisation by her management was set to make a big leap forward this week.
Over 100 lecturers, students and supporters held a lobby on Wednesday of last week outside London Met university. Lecturers are facing union derecognition and redundancies.
Glasgow City council’s attempts to use Tory anti-union laws has backfired.
