Signal workers in the RMT union at Network Rail were set to strike on Friday of this week. A strike would severely hit Britain’s rail network.
Despite the full weight of the University and College Union’s (UCU) machinery pushing for a yes vote in the higher education pay ballot, over 10,000 lecturers voted no.
Several hundred ambulance workers on Merseyside struck on Thursday of last week in a dispute over new pay structures.
Domestic staff at South Tyneside hospitals were set to strike for 24 hours on Thursday of this week.
Hundreds of physiotherapy students and graduates protested in Westminster on Tuesday to demand urgent government action over the jobs crisis facing thousands of newly qualified physiotherapists.
A deal on pay and conditions was thrown into crisis by Royal Mail’s arrogant dismissal of the CWU union this week.
Love Music Hate Racism (LMHR) launched its campaign against the fascist British National Party (BNP) in Barking & Dagenham on Friday of last week at two secondary schools in the borough.
Engineers and bus drivers working for First Bus in Norfolk and Suffolk have threatened to strike if management do not respond on pay.
Some 100 people marched to the US embassy in central London last Saturday to demand the closure of the Guantanamo Bay prison camp.
Postal workers at Carterton and Witney in Oxfordshire returned to work after unofficial strikes last week.
Chris Keates, general secretary of the NASUWT teaching union, has called on Derby City Council to sack Clive Jones from his teaching job in the city’s pupil referral unit.
Britain is a largely contented society," wrote Blairite thinker Geoff Mulgan in a recent Guardian article. For New Labour, we are living in a country with a vibrant economy where opportunity and wealth are cascading down.
