"This is a fight that goes right to the heart of trade unionism. It’s about our right to elect our representatives, rather than have management select them.
"What do we want? Dignity! What do we want? Fair pay! What do we want? Respect!"
The RMT union is just one of the many supporting the National Pensioners Convention’s day of action and lobby of parliament on Wednesday 12 October.
Some 3,500 civilian staff working for the police in Scotland took part in a 24 hour strike over pay on Thursday of last week.
Council workers in Sefton, Merseyside, were set for a 48-hour strike this week over the victimisation of activists in their Unison union branch.
Opposition to oursourcing plan Council workers are opposing plans by Burnley council to transfer 60 jobs in its revenues and benefits department to a private firm, Liberata, which already runs similar services in Pendle.
Sacked Gate Gourmet workers have forced the company to admit it cannot wash its hands of them, but their battle for reinstatement is far from over.
Brendan Gold, the T&G’s national officer for airports, told Socialist Worker, "Gate Gourmet is determined not to reinstate what it calls the ‘troublemakers’.
The Portuguese community in Watton, Norfolk, suffered a sickening racist attack on Thursday of last week.
Over 100,000 demonstrators took to the streets across Iraq last week to campaign against the US orchestrated constitution.
Earlier this month, almost ignored by press and politicians, a detailed official report showed that the health gap between rich and poor is worsening.
The British Medical Association (BMA) has become the latest organisation to sound the alarm over the financial crisis affecting many NHS trusts.
