A new report from the Joseph Rowntree Trust provides a damning description of the sickly state of Britain’s democracy.
Post Office bosses’ refusal to abide by an agreement they had signed just days before led to a strike at Plymouth’s north central delivery office on Monday.
Derry Derry postal workers in Northern Ireland are threatening industrial action if Royal Mail forces through a cost-cutting proposal to transfer its mail transport service from the city to Belfast.
Members of the GMB union at more than 20 Asda depots are balloting on strike action in a dispute over pay and conditions. A strike could affect supplies to about 300 stores.
Dinner ladies from schools across Hackney, east London, staged an unofficial strike on Wednesday of last week.
The T&G union, together with the London Citizens community organisation, this week launched the latest stage in the campaign against low pay and poor treatment of cleaners in the City of London.
Over 600 people protested in Wigton, north Cumbria, last Saturday against threats to the NHS in the area. The population of Wigton is just 5,360.
Ambulance workers in Bristol and the wider Avon region are to ballot for strike action over the agenda for change pay and conditions deal. The ballot involves 350 members of the Unison union.
Bury schools protest Over 500 people marched through Bury, Lancashire, last Saturday against the proposed closure of two local high schools, Prestwich Arts College and Broad Oak High. My local school, Prestwich, is brilliant and has a mixture of students of all races and religions. Campaigners also lobbied the council and forced it to delay any decision on closures for three weeks.
‘It looks like a concrete spaceship from the planet Crap." This quip from a member of the public in the Channel 4 programme Demolition, about Cumbernauld town centre, is our typical reaction to the naive utopianism of British modern architecture.
The unofficial all-out strike by construction workers at Cottam power station near Nottingham was continuing as Socialist Worker went to press.
Tower Hamlets Over 300 people came to a Stop the War rally in Tower Hamlets, east London on Wednesday of last week. The audience, which reflected the diversity of the local community, heard speakers including George Galloway, Rose Gentle and Tony Benn.
