There is a battle royal taking place on the streets of east London today. On the one side there is New Labour at its very worst – bent on privatisation and mired in sleaze.
It is the US that represents the real nuclear threat to the world today, not Iran.
The battle against the government’s assault on pensions suffered a heavy blow last week when leaders of 11 trade unions called off strikes which had been scheduled to defend the local government pensions scheme.
British Airways Unions will formally reject British Airways’ (BA) plans to alter pension arrangements at a meeting on 26 April.
Dozens of Respect supporters joined a car cavalcade that wove through the streets of Tower Hamlets, east London, last Sunday, capping an Easter weekend of hard campaigning in the borough for the 4 May local elections.
Candidates protest against Birmingham NHS cuts Some 25 people joined a hurriedly arranged protest against job losses and ward closures in City Hospital in Handsworth, Birmingham, last week.
‘We are being upfront about this. If they the donors were willing to give the time, effort and money to support the academies programme, we wanted to put them in the Lords." So runs Downing Street’s bullish defence of its conduct in the "cash for peerages" scandal.
Further education lecturers in England and Wales are gearing up for their two-day strike over pay. Natfhe, the lecturers’ union, represents the 25,000 FE lecturers who will be striking on 2 and 3 May.
The National Union of Teachers (NUT) annual conference took place in Torquay over the Easter weekend.
Rail workers win ballot for action More than 400 platform workers in the RMT rail workers’ union have voted by six to one for action over cuts in the number of station staff on duty on South Eastern Trains.
Around 85,000 workers in the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) are set to strike again on 2 and 3 May against government plans to slash 40,000 jobs.
Some 950 PCS members working for Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HMRC) in the large processing centre at Lothians in Scotland struck on Thursday of last week over the deskilling of work.
