TWO MONTHS ago Tory-controlled Taunton Deane Borough Council met and voted to pursue a costly consultation over housing stock transfer (privatisation).
THE NEW Labour council in Lewisham, south London, has voted for the closure of a much-loved leisure centre—despite opposition from all the other parties on the council.
MEMBERS OF the RMT union on Eurostar are to ballot for strikes over pay and regrading.
TRAFFIC wardens in Manchester stopped work unofficially on Friday of last week after they were told they had to continue to wear their ties and jackets in the stiflingly hot weather.
STRIKING BUS workers in South Yorkshire have won an important battle in their war against low pay.
WHISKY WORKERS at one of Scotland’s largest privately owned companies planned to strike this week over pay.
A SERIOUS attack has been launched on the TGWU union representing check-in staff and baggage handlers at Servisair at Gatwick Airport.
THE TUC is set to reduce its official membership figures by 300,000 to 6.4 million members, according to the BBC’s Newsnight programme.
SOME 90,000 low paid workers were due to walk out on strike on Thursday and Friday of this week.
"SUPERBUG CRISIS worse than feared". "The deadly superbug that puts Britain’s hospitals to shame."
