Karen Reissmann, a nurse for 25 years and an elected member of Unison’s national health executive, was suspended from work last Friday, 15 June. That afternoon, an important outpatient appointment with a very vulnerable patient was interrupted and – on the direct orders of the chief executive – she was instructed to leave the out-patient consultation and the hospital.
Over 300 local people demonstrated in Corsham, Wiltshire, against a BNP member claiming a seat on the town council. BNP councillor Michael Simpkins took the ward of Rudloe uncontested in the May council elections. The protest, on last Monday, 11 June, received favourable media coverage. Local television covered it with the phrase, "when voting apathy became anger".
The British-controlled Indian Ocean island of Diego Garcia played a critical role in the development of the CIA’s secret "war on terror" prisons, a new report shows.
Scotland’s largest teaching union has called for a block on army recruitment in schools.
Delegates at Prospect’s special union conference last week broke into cheers when Nick Wadge, a delegate from Plymouth’s dockyards, described how a recent 24-hour strike had halted the movement of all military vessels in the docks.
The Raytheon Nine appeared in court last week. The demonstrators stormed the Derry base of US arms manufacturer Raytheon in August last year, barricading themselves into the building.
Migrant workers at Roadchef are balloting for strike action after the company threatened to withdraw transport to an M3 service station which has only motorway access and no public transport links.
Workers at the BBC could join the pay revolt. A national meeting of Bectu, NUJ and Amicus union reps voted unanimously last week to reject the BBC’s pay offer.
London Anti-war protesters and workers from the threatened Remploy factories for disabled people lobbied the Labour Party hustings in London last week.
Up to 1,000 construction workers walked out last week at the Dragon Liquefied Natural Gas terminal site in Waterston, Milford Haven, in south west Wales.
Boost for Unique Care campaign The fight for reinstatement by 17 black women in Huddersfield received a massive boost last week.
