Wanted: fair play at Arsenal The GMB union has taken up the case of member James Ramsey against Arsenal football club.
Around 600 First Bus workers in the east of Scotland held their second one-day strike over pay on Tuesday of this week.
Over 400 postal workers rallied in London on Wednesday of last week against the plans to sell off Royal Mail.
Campaigners from the York Trade and Debt Justice Group held a successful event in York last weekend to raise awareness of global injustice.
Initial Laundry Workers at Initial Laundry in Bradford voted to end their strikes this week after a new offer from the company.
Oil prices touch a record $70 per barrel, petrol prices hit £1 a litre and British Gas announces another crunching 14 percent price increase. Gordon Brown berates the oil producers’ organisation Opec, and John Prescott lectures the Americans on climate change.
Now the leaders of the world’s most powerful states won’t even talk about abolishing poverty, and they don’t want the facts on your television screens either.
"The government was forced to retreat on raising the pension age by the threat of united industrial action in March of this year.
Everyone at the TUC kept saying this is a critical moment for the trade union movement.
The Gate Gourmet battle, now over five weeks old, sums up so much of what is wrong in Blair’s Britain. No other dispute received as many mentions at the TUC this week — and with good reason.
The key issue at Gate Gourmet is now the fate of those the company brands as "troublemakers".
Striking engineers in the test area of Rolls Royce’s Bristol plant returned to work on Tuesday after a mammoth battle which has seen them take six weeks of action to stop the victimisation of their convenor, Jerry Hicks.