Unison union leaders have been forced by pressure from the rank and file to back the call for a special conference on pensions.
Yunus Bakhsh, a leading activist in the Unison union, has now been suspended from his job as a health worker in Newcastle for six weeks.
Over 100 nurses, occupational therapists, activities staff, senior support workers, team secretaries, day care staff, technical instructors and therapists lobbied the board of Manchester mental health and social care trust on Thursday of last week.
A two and a half year long and hard-fought campaign to save Lewisham’s Ladywell pool, jointly initiated and chaired by Lewisham Respect, led to a stunning victory last week.
Islington’s Liberal Democrat controlled council, against national party policy, has ignored the wishes of the governors of Islington Green School (IGS) and issued a closure notice on the school in order to reopen it in 2008 as an academy.
Some 400 workers struck last week at Tunnock's biscuit factory in Uddingston, near Glasgow, over pay.
Postal workers in Manvers, South Yorkshire, struck for 24 hours last week and are planning further action on 22, 25 and 27 November after management imposed punitive sanctions on their return to work.
More than 900 striking North Sea divers and support staff voted to accept a 44.7 percent pay increase over two years from employers on Friday of last week, ending a ten-day strike.
Three days of planned strike action by members of the NUJ journalists’ union at the Daily and Sunday Telegraph has forced management to withdraw its threats to impose new working conditions on staff.
Around 2,500 bus drivers and engineers working at Metroline launched the first major bus strike in London for seven years on Tuesday.
Anti-fascist campaigners reacted with outrage on Friday of last week as Nick Griffin, leader of the British National Party (BNP), and his sidekick Mark Collett were cleared of charges of incitement to racial hatred.
Sajid Mehmood, a local community worker, and seven other former members of the Labour Party have torn up their party cards to join Respect in West Yorkshire.
