Unison shop steward and Defend Council Housing campaigner Eileen Short is facing redundancy after her bosses at Tower Hamlets council in east London attempted to push her out of her job as press officer.
Lecturers at London Metropolitan University have voted almost unanimously to accept a new negotiated contract. But another crisis now looms over the university’s refusal to fully pay staff for their work.
Holocaust Memorial Day has become a battleground for people divided over whether it should be a day in which the attempted genocide of the Jews (1933-1945) is commemorated, or whether it should be a "Genocide Day" for all genocides.
The government is soon going to attack everybody’s pensions — on this question Gordon Brown and Tony Blair are united as one. A consensus has emerged between Labour ministers and big business that we must all work harder and longer to deal with the "pensions crisis".
‘We protested at the conference this week about the lack of action for people who have lost their pensions when their firms folded.
When Labour chairman Ian McCartney has to shut down a party national executive meeting in order to prevent it endorsing a conference motion backing union rights, you know Tony Blair’s grip is loosening.
A deal to end the bitter dispute at catering firm Gate Gourmet was announced at the start of this week.
I’m off. Leaving Labour. After 44 years. After standing for Labour in two general elections in Brighton.
Postal workers met at Labour’s conference on Monday to protest against plans for privatisation and competition with private firms.
British Airways (BA) is out to financially break one of Britain’s most important unions. Union activists at Heathrow airport have told Socialist Worker of a management plot to saddle the T&G union with a massive bill that would bankrupt it.
Blair has announced that he is “changing his thinking” about climate change — falling into line with George Bush yet again, despite his promises to focus on the problem.
