Southampton Southampton care worker Lynda Miller works night shifts looking after the elderly. It’s a job she has done for more than 30 years. Southampton City Council has now cut her pay by £5,600 a year.
Underground cleaners lobby parliament London Underground cleaners in the T&G union lobbied parliament last week against plans for over 200 compulsory redundancies. The T&G and RMT unions called off a strike ballot after management withdrew the plans
The Stop the War Coalition has convened a special People’s Assembly on Tuesday 20 March—the fourth anniversary of the invasion of Iraq—at Central Hall in central London.
The long running dispute over the Local Government Pension Scheme, affecting over a million workers, reaches a defining moment next Tuesday when the Unison union holds a special conference.
Within hours of Tony Blair’s announcement of troop withdrawals from Iraq, defence minister Des Browne confirmed that an extra 1,400 British troops were to be deployed in Afghanistan.
The ruling that Muslim cleric Abu Qatada can be deported to Jordan because he faces "no real risk of persecution" there has highlighted the question of international removal pacts.
Organising For Fighting Unions (OFFU) will hold a major rally in London on 1 May – the same day that a quarter of a million civil service workers in the PCS union are likely to strike.
The government is facing up to 10,000 claims for equal pay by women workers in the NHS.
The battle to defend jobs and services by Unison union members at Manchester’s mental health and social care trust was at a crucial stage as Socialist Worker went to press.
Over 100 local and regional rallies, marches and events are planned for the day of action for the health service this Saturday.
Last week Tony Blair claimed that reduced hospital waiting times would be part of his legacy.
Health secretary Patricia Hewitt’s claim that the NHS has balanced its budget is an attempt to save her own skin.
