Campaigners for Babar Ahmad, the south London IT worker threatened with extradition to the US on trumped-up "terrorism" charges, have reacted with anger to a decision by the House of Lords to refuse him an appeal.
Postal workers in Heanor, Derbyshire, are to strike for seven days from next Monday, 18 June.
Around 130 postal workers in Luton struck on Wednesday of last week for 24 hours after a delivery worker was sacked.
Postal workers have voted by three to one to strike over pay, conditions and to defend a public service.
"Unison union members in the NHS are spitting mad about pay, and we want action as soon as possible." So says Paul Harper, who has just been elected to the national executive of his union.
The PCS civil service workers' union was set to hold a special national executive meeting on Friday of this week to discuss the union's campaign over pay and against job losses.
Teachers are also angry over pay. Kevin Courtney is a member of the NUT teachers' union national executive. He told Socialist Worker, "Education secretary Alan Johnson's evidence to our pay review body for September 2008 was insulting.
Gordon Brown will be crowned Labour leader and our next prime minister within an exclusion zone built to keep out any dissenting voices.
Reacting to the publication of a second report by the Charity Commission into the Mariam Appeal, which was set up in 1998 to provide medical assistance to the people of Iraq, Respect MP George Galloway said:
Migrant workers at Roadchef are balloting for strike action after the company threat to withdraw to the M3 service station with motorway only access and no public transport links.
Britain’s biggest construction union has warned that the building of the Olympic Park and venues for the 2012 games will be hit with similar delays, strikes and spiralling costs to those that plagued Wembley Stadium.
