The biggest ever poll to look at the government’s record on issues affecting older people was published this week – as leaders of Britain’s growing pensioner movement gathered in Blackpool for the start of the 15th annual Pensioners’ Parliament.
A civil servant accused under the Official Secrets Act of leaking a confidential memo wanted to reveal the truth about Iraq, a court has heard.
If you attend the "Not the Unison Social", be prepared to disciplined by Unison, your union! That was the bizarre message from Unison to its members at Tyne and Wear Hospital Trust, where leading activist Yunus Bakhsh is facing the sack by his employers and a witch-hunt from his own union.
Macclesfield postal workers last week walked out unofficially to support a colleague with chronic renal failure – and won a complete victory against uncaring bosses.
Birmingham Workers in the GMB union at Birmingham council showed overwhelming opposition to the single status agreement in the first of several mass meetings last week.
Refuse workers in Salford are on the brink of strike action over the use of agency staff.
Members of the T&G union at Lothian Buses in Edinburgh have spoken out against a new rule instructing them to ask women wearing a veil to show their faces if they are using a bus pass.
Support for Wembley Park occupation Trade unionists from across London came last Saturday with their families and friends to show support for the Brent occupation on the Wembley Park Sports Ground. It has been organised to prevent an academy being built there.
London mayor Ken Livingstone has found an additional £15 million for Esol (English for Speakers of Other Languages) provision in London.
Harlow College strike ballot Lecturers at Harlow college are being balloted for strike action over management’s decision to make over 200 staff reapply for their jobs with new conditions – including longer hours and less pay.
The Fire Brigades Union (FBU) will hold its annual conference in Southport this week.
Thousands of migrant workers and their supporters rallied in Trafalgar Square, London, on Monday to demand that the government regularises the status of undocumented workers in Britain.
