The proposals leaked from Labour’s pensions White Paper were denounced by pensioner activists and some union leaders.
Just days before the government publishes its White Paper on pension reform, Britain’s biggest pensioner organisation – the National Pensioners Convention (NPC) – opened its annual Pensioners’ Parliament.
The NPC has just published its second annual Age Audit of life for older people in Britain.
Sainsbury workers could lose out on large chunks of their pension if they do not contribute more from their wages.
"Israel's tanks are closing in, the soldiers kill with impunity, the bullets and missiles are supplied by Bush and Blair, the morgues are overflowing. Raise your arms to the sky with us and roar in anger at Israeli terror."
Israel has abandoned any pretence of being interested in peace with the Palestinian people. It is using all its force – its US-supplied tanks, weapons and fighter jets – to crush a people's resistance. Israel has inflicted decades of repression, brutality and humiliation on the Palestinian people.
Respect shattered the Labour stranglehold on the east London borough of Newham last week, winning a magnificent 20 percent in the mayoral election and 26 percent across the entirety of the council seats.
Respect successes in Birmingham Salma Yaqoob was elected as a Respect councillor in the Sparkbrook ward in Birmingham, winning an astounding 4,339 votes, among the highest anywhere.
Thousands of victims of an asbestos-related cancer and the families of those who have already died of the disease will not receive full compensation in the wake of a legal victory by insurers last week.
The battle over the future of the local government pension scheme (LGPS), which saw up to 1.5 million workers strike on 28 March, is far from over.
Tens of thousands of union members in the Ministry of Defence (MoD) began voting this week in an indicative ballot for industrial action over job cuts and privatisation.
Two months into their action over pay, representatives from the university lecturers’ unions Natfhe and the AUT met with employers on Monday.
