Members of the RMT rail union working for Metronet are being balloted for strike action.
Andy Beadle, a T&G shop steward at London Central’s Peckham bus garage, has been sacked for representing his members’ views over recent pay negotiations.
Socialist Worker supporters in the PCS civil service workers’ union met last Saturday to discuss the framework of the proposed pensions deal agreed between the TUC and the New Labour government.
Lizwane Ndlovu, a Zimbabwean asylum seeker who went on hunger strike during the summer while in Yarl’s Wood detention centre, died last week.
The news that Tony Blair has taken it upon himself to drive forwards the attempts to reach a deal at next month’s World Trade Organisation (WTO) gives a good guide to what sort of agreement is on offer.
Council tenants in Sefton, Merseyside, voted just three months ago to reject plans to sell off their homes to a housing association. But that was the wrong answer as far as Sefton council was concerned — so now it has decided to hold the ballot again.
Government plans to force through privatisation of council housing are running into increased grassroots resistance. Housing associations are turning to desperate measures.
It was all supposed be over by this Christmas. That was the date in the United Nations’ original timetable for withdrawal from Iraq.
Health workers and campaigners in Oxfordshire have won an important battle against privatisation.
British Airways (BA) was poised to remove leading trade unionists from Heathrow airport this week.
The government and unions will soon begin talks about the detail of the framework for public sector pensions that was agreed recently.
