WE HAVE just returned from Genoa in Italy, visiting for the first time since attending the demonstration at the G8 summit three years ago.
WE CAN stop the great pensions robbery—provided that unions are prepared to strike hard.
THE PENSIONS issue at the centre of the Network Rail dispute is a vital one for millions of workers.
THE ANNUAL conference of Unison, Britain’s biggest union, last week showed that the disillusion with Blair and New Labour runs very deep.
HEALTH WORKER, the rank and file paper for workers in the NHS, held a packed fringe meeting at Unison conference attended by over 100 people.
BIN WORKERS and street sweepers in Hackney, east London, were set to strike this week and next week in a continuation of a bitter battle with their New Labour bosses.
ANGER SPREAD through rank and file Fire Brigades Union (FBU) activists at the end of last week as they heard that a recently elected national officer, Paul Woolstenholmes, has been suspended from his post by the union’s leadership.
THE AMICUS union health section conference discussed the government’s Agenda for Change proposal on Monday of this week. This was the key debate at the conference.
SOME 150 cleaners have won union recognition with one of Europe’s major cleaning companies, ISS, at Canary Wharf in east London.
GOVERNMENT ministers breathed a sigh of relief at the outcome of the election for general secretary of the biggest teachers’ union on Tuesday of this week.
EDUCATION workers across four unions in Leeds have voted for a one-day strike against compulsory redundancies of teachers and support staff.
