A government project to curb the exploitation of migrants in the construction industry has been criticised by unions.
Over 70 members of the RMT rail workers’ union struck on the Heathrow Express in London on Thursday of last week.
It looks likely that workers for GNER will ballot over industrial action against the company who intend to slash ticket office staff by 50 percent.
A body which claims to offer independent advice to tenants during transfer ballots stands accused of bias towards sell-offs.
The Merseyside firefighters’ strike against cuts and management bullying was at a critical turning point on Tuesday of this week as Socialist Worker went to press.
Valerie Wise, the former leader of Preston City Council, told a packed Stop the War meeting last week in the city why she had left the Labour Party. She spoke to Socialist Worker about her decision.
"Hundreds of Unison members in NHS Logistics have taken part in a national strike to oppose the sell-off of essential public services to DHL - a German parcel courier.
In his final conference speech as Labour Party leader, Tony Blair passed a poisoned chalice to Gordon Brown - pledging that Britain will remain "America’s strongest ally".
On Tuesday of this week the Labour Party conference dealt a crushing blow to the government’s housing policy.
The central issues for many delegates at Labour’s conference were not debated - at least not on the conference floor.
The Blairites and Brownites fiercely debated their ambitions by leaking copiously in the media. Meanwhile on the floor of conference you’d hardly have guessed for much of the time that anyone had any doubts about the direction of New Labour and its key policies.
Yunus Bakhsh, a leading activist in the Unison union, has been suspended from his job as a health worker in Newcastle.
