An 86 year old from Derby is going blind – because his health authority won’t make his treatment available on the NHS.
Tuesday 1 May is a key date for the fight to break Gordon Brown’s 2 percent public sector wage freeze and to defend public services.
The fifteen aircraft refuellers who are central to the smooth running of Gatwick Airport have voted to strike in their dispute over trade union recognition.
Solectron members in the CWU union yesterday staged an impromptu sit-in, demanding that the visiting European Vice President address the work force. In March Solectron announced the closure of the Cwmcarn factory in South Wales making more than150 people redundant.
A meeting took place between the CWU union and the Royal Mail on the afternoon of Thursday 19 April.
The prospect of the first national strike action in the NHS in Britain for nearly two decades took a step forward this week. The Royal College of Nurses (RCN) conference voted to clear the way for its members to take industrial action.
As British health unions consider taking industrial action over pay and the state of the NHS, some 40,000 Irish nurses and midwives are in their third week of industrial action.
Birmingham Respect had an excellent day’s campaigning in the Lozells & East Handsworth ward in Birmingham last Sunday.
Postal workers were waiting this week for details of a new pay offer from Royal Mail. As Socialist Worker reported exclusively last week, bosses wanted to impose a freeze in basic pay and ram through 22 attacks on conditions.
The threat of strike action by the PCS civil service workers’ union in Milton Keynes has won a victory against job cuts.
Defend Council Housing has set up an online petition on the prime minister’s website to show the depth of anger at the government’s policy of handing over council homes to private landlords.
Around 250 bus drivers at First Eastern Counties in Norwich were set to strike on Friday this week.
