No one can seriously doubt that it was the threat of united strikes in the course of a general election that knocked back New Labour’s attack.
New Labour has given way over talks, but it is clear what it wants out of them.
"NUT delegates are to discuss pensions at our conference this weekend," says Kevin Courtney from the NUT in Camden, north London.
"Why can’t I travel, just like my grandparents and their parents did?" asks Ninah Smith, a traveller from Norwich. "I’m entitled to follow my tradition and lifestyle."
Hospitals are closing wards, cutting bed numbers and laying off staff as a financial crisis begins to bite.
I will be coming from South Africa to Edinburgh in July to confront the G8. I hope you will be marching with me.
The world’s number one terrorist, George Bush, and his sidekick, Tony Blair, will be coming to Scotland in July. People should come and take part in the demonstrations against them.
About 80 anti-war campaigners packed into the Castle Hotel, Neath, on Tuesday of last week to hear one of the leading figures in the anti-war movement call for British troops to be brought home from Iraq.
The latest strike action in the long running pay dispute between college lecturers’ union Natfhe and college managements—who have failed to honour a two year pay deal — took place on Tuesday and Wednesday this week.
Protesters put GSL in the dock Asylum rights campaigners in Manchester protested outside the immigration office in the city last week to highlight the mistreatment of refugees by private contractor GSL.
Support Martin Gleeson The Greater Manchester Association of Trades Union Councils is to write to the chief constable of Greater Manchester Police to request that charges against an Oldham TUC official be dropped.
Members of the Communication Workers Union (CWU) have condemned phone giant T-Mobile for its continued refusal to negotiate with or recognise their union.
