Manchester is "a shopaholics dream", the "original 24-hour party city", where you could be "rubbing shoulders with celebrities and footballers", according to the publicity for the Lowry Hotel, the self-styled "most fashionable venue" in the city.
Decked out in "Save Our NHS" T-shirts, some 250 strikers from Manchester’s mental health and social care trust formed some of the liveliest picket lines of the day.
A large group of striking Amicus union members from Fujitsu came to the lunchtime rally in Manchester.
Civil service workers across Greater Manchester joined the national PCS union strike.
The Trade Union Freedom Bill is scheduled to come before parliament on Friday 2 March. This is an important focus for activists and a chance to raise the issue of anti-union laws.
The Institute for Employment Rights hosted a meeting last week to support the Trade Union Freedom Bill.
As ballot papers went out this week for the University and College Union (UCU) national executive positions, candidates supported by UCU Left – including general secretary candidate Roger Kline – were campaigning against creeping privatisation of education.
The continuing campaign to defend leading health union activist, Yunus Bakhsh, from victimisation by his employer has received shocking evidence that management were able to use material produced by the Unison union to undermine support for him.
Over 6,500 tube workers in the RMT union are balloting for strikes over pay across London Underground.
Workers in the Amicus union at Selex-SAS (formerly BAE Systems) in Luton have won a union recognition agreement covering 400 engineers.
Stop investing in the arms trade Students at Cambridge University are to hold a demonstration this Saturday, 10 February, in protest at the continuing investment by many of its colleges in major arms companies. The protest is organised by Cambridge University Student Union and Cambridge Students Against the Arms Trade.
Some 130 CWU union members working on the Television Licensing contract for Capita in Bristol took strike action on 29 and 30 January in response to a business decision to move work to Mumbai in India.
