Some 250 workers have been sacked after objecting to the way asbestos was removed from a building site at the liquefied natural gas (LNG) fuel terminal being built near Milford Haven in Pembrokeshire.
Left candidates in the PCS civil service workers’ union won all but one of the national executive seats in the union’s recent elections.
Around 200 delegates from over 30 affiliated unions attended the TUC disability conference on 24 and 25 May.
Mikey Powell died in the early hours of 7 September 2003 after being struck by a police car, hit with a baton and sprayed with CS gas in the Lozells area of Birmingham.
An innocent man was left with extensive injuries following a beating by police officers.
Peugeot protest Some 100 Peugeot Ryton workers protested on Friday of last week over the closure of their plant. The demonstration took place outside the Peugeot dealership in Coventry. Workers are balloting for strikes despite threats from Peugeot to accelerate the closure if workers vote for action.
The British state is guilty of murder and terrorism.
My new book, Body Count: How they Turned Aids into a Catastrophe, marks the 25th anniversary of the Aids epidemic, dated from 5 June 1981. That was the first medical report in the US of mysterious clusters of rare pneumonias among gay men.
The Natfhe lecturers’ union will recommend that its members boycott Israeli universities and academics who do not dissociate themselves from their government’s policies.
University workers and students have been coming together to demand that managers make a better offer to lecturers engaged in a bitter struggle over pay.
There were signs at the start of this week that Royal Mail management were preparing for new attacks just as workers were organising for a national strike ballot in five weeks time.
New figures reveal employers have never enjoyed such freedom to neglect safety rules.
