Firefighters in Cornwall are sensing victory in their campaign against threatened cuts to the fire service in the Falmouth and Camborne area.
Refuse workers in Salford were set to stage a 24 hour strike on Wednesday of this week in a dispute over the use of agency staff.
Over 250 Greenwich council workers in south London are continuing their battle against the latest single status proposals.
The Unison public sector workers’ union national conference, held in Brighton last week, was framed by the mood for a fight over pay, and the coming to office of Gordon Brown.
Britain has a long tradition of charitable voluntary bodies. Having visited many of their local projects, I admire their dedicated staff. But the structures and policies at the top mean there are elements which reinforce capitalism, the class system and inequality.
Blair’s final act as prime minister was to negotiate a new European treaty at the European Union (EU) summit last weekend.
Demand for increased state pensions Delegates voted overwhelmingly for the union to push for an immediate and substantial increase in the basic state pension to £138 a week.
Over 300 delegates heard Unison activists Yunus Bakhsh and Tony Staunton put their case at a lively and angry fringe meeting at the conference. It was the biggest fringe meeting of all.
Thousands of anti-war protesters gathered outside the Labour Party special conference last Sunday as Gordon Brown was anointed the new leader of the party without a contest.
The US army are holding 300,000 Iraqis hostage as they lay siege to Baquba, a mainly Sunni Muslim city north east of Baghdad.
Over 350 people marched through Gloucester last Saturday against the closure of the city’s mail centre.
Teachers are also gearing up to join the wave of opposition to the public sector pay freeze.
