A packed meeting of Amicus union members at Fujitsu in Manchester last week decided to step up their campaign to defend agreements on union recognition, redundancy, redeployment and pay. They are also pushing for better pay.
The RMT rail workers' union is set to ballot its 6,500 members on the London Underground for strike action over last year's pay deal. The ballot will close in mid-February.
Nissan car workers in Sunderland rejected a 2 percent pay offer for the second time last Sunday.
For a moment reality TV made good on its promise as Celebrity Big Brother showed us a postcard from reality – the banal everyday racism in Britain.
Kurdish soldiers in the Iraqi army have deserted after they were told they would be deployed to Baghdad as part of George Bush's troop "surge".
The majority of ordinary Americans want the US Congress to block George Bush's plans for a "surge" of 21,500 extra troops in Iraq.
Momentum is growing for the national demonstration on Saturday 24 February called by the Stop the War Coalition and CND against the replacement of Trident and calling for troops out of Iraq.
From the slums of Kenya to the streets of Washington there is disgust at George Bush and Tony Blair's "war on terror".
Health workers at Manchester's mental health and social care trust Manchester mental health workers picketed their health authority on Thursday against savage cuts in services and jobs.
Parliament held a rare debate on the Iraq war on Wednesday of this week – though Tony Blair refused to attend and government whips refused to allow a vote on the issue. Here is Respect MP George Galloway's forensic demolition of the government's case for war.
The Scottish Trade Union Congress’s general council last week voted to support the Scottish Stop the War conference on 10 February and to circulate details to all its affiliated organisations.
The government’s obsession with involving the private sector in the running of schools is set to plummet to new depths.
