Thousands of council workers in the Unison and T&G unions at Coventry City Council were set to strike on Thursday this week in a dispute over pay. This will be followed by a
Postal workers have demanded tough action from their CWU union leaders in response to signs that the government and bosses at Royal Mail may be taking giant strides towards privatisation of the post.
More than 200 people held a "freedom march" through Basildon, Essex, last Saturday in protest against threats to evict Travellers from Dale Farm, the largest Traveller site in England.
I’ll fight on, vows Irene Stanley The high court has overturned the verdict of unlawful killing against police who shot dead Harry Stanley in September 1999.
Thousands of workers at the giant HSBC bank are set to strike over pay on Friday of next week. The Amicus members voted by two to one in favour of striking.
Over 800 delegates gathered in Brighton last weekend for the first national conference of the 1.2 million strong Amicus union.
Lecturers at London Metropolitan University (LMU) started a five day strike on Monday of this week — the longest strike in higher education in recent years.
The "counter summit" being organised as part of the protests against the G8 in July is shaping up to be one of the most exciting political events of the year.
Workers at the Marconi telecommunications company are organising to stop 800 threatened job losses.
The AUT lecturers’ union passed resolutions in April calling for a boycott of two Israeli universities. One, Bar-Ilan, had a subsidiary college in the illegal Israeli settlement of Ariel, in the occupied West Bank.
Despite Tony Blair’s reduced majority, ministers seem determined to step up the pace of "modernising" reforms in the NHS — with wholesale privatisation of healthcare and wider "freedoms" for foundation hospitals.
Retirement New work and pensions minister David Blunkett is set to step up the attack on pensions in the public and private sectors. He is expected to announce his plans after the publication of a report by former Confederation of British Industry chief Adair Turner. The queen’s speech also confirmed government plans to savage housing and incapacity benefits.
