Civil rights campaigners have reacted with fury to the latest government plans to deport suspected "Muslim extremists" to countries that routinely practice torture and the death penalty.
Virtually unnoticed by the media and politicians, large swathes of the NHS are facing deadly cuts. Hospital beds are being scrapped, staff made redundant and potential recruits turned away.
Steve Sweeney member of Cambridge Health Unison
The union Community has announced that that it has won compensation on behalf of members hit by redundancies at the steelmaker ASW in Cardiff in July 2002.
Some 2,000 council workers in Sefton on Merseyside struck on Tuesday of last week against Sefton council’s victimisation of union activists.
Journalists at Coventry Newspapers voted to continue their all-out strike on Monday. The 43 members of the NUJ union have taken over 21 days of action over the last few months in their fight over low pay.
In defence of Rhetta Moran Trade Unionists lobbied the University of Salford last week in defence of Rhetta Moran. Rhetta says, "I have been victimised.
Firefighters and control staff in Suffolk were due to take three rounds of strike action this weekend and into next Monday in what is an important dispute for the FBU union.
The Amicus union has defiantly rejected a cynical offer by Rolls Royce management for convenor Jerry Hicks to give up his fight for reinstatement in return for a £50,000 payoff.
About 40 people attended a public meeting organised by the Amicus branch of Marshall Aerospace in Cambridge which was addressed by Jerry Hicks.
Around 1,000 engineers who service the Royal Mail network have voted in favour of strikes.
Manchester Manchester Stop the War Coalition held a public meeting recently where 100 people gathered at the Pakistani Community Centre in Longsight against the backdrop of the London bombings.
