A massive strike over pensions at the end of March, involving 1.5 million workers, came a step closer last week after important moves by the Unison and the GMB trade unions.
Lies over the rule of 85 The government says the rule of 85 must go because it breaches European Union (EU) anti?discrimination rules. But Socialist Worker has learned that the EU has denied that there is any need for this. Unison is aware of the EU’s advice.
Have you been following the latest movements of the yield on very long maturity government bonds – known as "gilts"?
There was one word that could be heard being repeated throughout last week’s World Social Forum (WSF) – revolution.
Sarah Allen from the Unison public sector union and Jane Hardy from the Natfhe lecturers’ union were among the British trade unionists attending the WSF. They met with teachers and some of those taking advantage of Venezuela’s ambitious education and literacy programmes
A strike by around 80,000 civil service workers in the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) brought job centres, benefit offices, the Child Support Agency and call centres to a halt on Thursday and Friday of last week.
Workers in the PCS and Prospect unions working for the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) are balloting over a revised pay offer.
Hundreds of Ministry of Defence (MoD) workers from around the country lobbied their employer’s headquarters in central London on Wednesday of last week.
Some 200 outsourced Westminster council workers, rocked by the news that they had been given notice to move to the Scottish Highlands or lose their jobs, held a spirited lobby of the central London council’s meeting on Wednesday of last week.
Some 850 construction workers at Heathrow Terminal 5 are striking for three days this week over the firm Laing O’Rourke’s refusal to match other employers on the site by paying a £1 an hour bonus.
School students rally against war Around 50 school students met last Saturday in north London for the annual School Students Against the War conference.
Royal Mail is set to axe 40,000 workers in a new round of cost cuts, according to the postal workers’ CWU union.
