Around 80 cleaners from the Houses of Parliament gathered on the nearby College Green in pouring rain on Wednesday of last week to announce their intention to ballot for strike action.
Hundreds of civil service workers in the Prospect and PCS unions at English Heritage struck on Tuesday against an insulting pay offer.
The T&G union has forced pottery company Imerys to back down from unilaterally introducing worse pension arrangements for its workers.
Firefighters in the Fire Brigades Union (FBU) in Somerset are to ballot for industrial action over a cruel decision by the fire authority to limit insurance payouts to firefighters’ families.
A family in Hackney, east London, with children aged three and five, is under threat of losing their dad. Immigration officials say Duane Thomas must go back to Jamaica because he overstayed his student visa in 1997.
A vicious exaggeration made by some on the left is that the problem with capitalism is that it leads people to think that they could sell their grandmothers into slavery, whereas we know that it’s only grandchildren who are up for sale.
Workers at Fazakerley Hospital, Liverpool, held a 48-hour strike last weekend to protest at pay inequality at the hospital.
Labour Party officials are considering drastically reducing the influence of the trade unions in the party’s future decision-making, according to a leaked report revealed in the pro-Labour weekly Tribune.
Local government workers in the Unison union met in Glasgow earlier this week for their annual conference.
Veteran anti-war activist and writer Tariq Ali wears a gag at a protest in Scotland last week. Thousands are expected to attend the G8 Alternatives demonstration, to be held on 6 July at Gleneagles. Last week’s protest demanded that local police, and Perth & Kinross council, do more to facilitate the demonstration — agreeing a route and providing space for a rally
Paul Lesniowski was arrested at a peaceful demonstration outside the EDO MBM arms factory in Brighton on Wednesday of last week. EDO’s weapons were used in the attack on Iraq. Paul is accused of breaching a controversial injunction limiting protests at the site.
Across the country, trains and buses are being booked, and filled, to take protesters to the G8 summit in a few days time.
