Some 600 catering and cleaning staff have gone on strike in Aberdeen. The women workers, members of the T&G union, are demanding equal pay and backdated bonuses under the single status agreement.
Tenants in Selby, North Yorkshire, voted last week to stay with the council rather than transfer their homes. Over 65 percent voted to stay with the council. The turnout was 75.6 percent.
A one-day strike by thousands of lecturers in the AUT and Natfhe unions across Britain took place on tuesday of last week.
"Immigrants should be hunted down, rounded up and deported." "Homosexuality should be weeded out." These are just two of the foul comments made by Dr Frank Ellis, lecturer in Russian and Slavonic Studies at Leeds University in an interview with Leeds Student journalist Matt Kennard.
Plymouth postal workers struck for a day last week, the second time they have taken action in their latest dispute.
Civil service workers in the PCS union working for the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) are continuing their fight against massive job cuts.
It almost defies belief that George Bush and Tony Blair could be contemplating a new war while the fires they have already started in Iraq and Afghanistan continue to rage.
Talks to avert a massive pensions battle went nowhere on Tuesday, and a huge confrontation is looming.
The government was nervously awaiting a report from the parliamentary ombudsman this week over the scandal of collapsed pensions schemes.
Israeli forces stormed a Palestinian jail in the West Bank town of Jericho on Tuesday, just after British and US forces, who were monitoring it, deserted the complex. At least one Palestinian police officer and one prisoner were killed by the Israelis.
Tuesday 28 March will see nearly 1.5 million workers strike over pensions in the biggest show of unity since the General Strike of 1926.
Well over 100,000 anti-war protesters from across Britain marched in London today against three years of occupation in Iraq and the threats of a military attack on Iran.
