Workers in Coventry council began indefinite action over pay cuts on Monday.
The Unison union’s judicial review against the government’s plans to axe the "rule of 85" in the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) has been refused.
Two men died last week when a 165 foot machine collapsed onto a block of flats in Battersea, south west London.
Journalists at two major national newspapers are gearing up to ballot for action.
Student Respect groups continue to tap into the radicalism of new students as the academic year begins around the country.
Derby Rolls Royce sees stoppages Around 2,300 Amicus union members at the Derby Rolls Royce plant are holding a one-hour strike at the end of their shifts every day this week. The workers are also working to rule.
Yunus Bakhsh, a leading activist in the Unison union, has been suspended from his job as a health worker in Newcastle.
We’re urging postal workers everywhere to send Royal Mail bosses Allan Leighton and Adam Crozier a postcard we’ve produced which raises three key issues of discrimination.
The livelihoods of hundreds of CWU union members in Coventry, Reading and Gloucester are under serious threat following Royal Mail’s announcement to close mail centres in 2009.
CWU workers from two delivery offices in West Oxfordshire voted overwhelmingly to end their two-month dispute over allegations of bullying and imbalanced application of national agreements.
On Tuesday 26 September - the same day that delegates at Labour Party conference backed a motion for the fourth option for council housing - 80 tenants from south Manchester attended a meeting to discuss stock transfer. Austin Mitchell MP, chair of the House of Commons council housing group, John Thompson, the president of Ucatt and Alan Walter from Defend Council Housing addressed a lively meeting. Manchester City Council is trying to persuade tenants in the areas of Burnage, Withington, Chorlton and Didsbury to transfer their homes to a housing trust called Southway. Over 50 people signed up to get more involved in the campaign and we will hold meetings on all the main estates before th
Workers took part in unofficial walkouts in Great Yarmouth, Lowestoft and Norwich on Wednesday of last week after a PCS civil service workers’ union activist was demoted.
