The number of people out of work in Britain has soared by nearly 650,000, according to new figures. The figure does not include the estimated 9.4 million jobs that have been furloughed on the government’s “job retention” scheme.
Scenes of resistance erupted on the streets of Tower Hamlets on Wednesday as council workers across the borough struck to defend their jobs.
Fire safety concerns relating to Grenfell Tower were ignored, an inquiry into the 2017 fire has heard.
More than 60,000 workers were sacked or put at risk of redundancy last week. Some industry experts predict that as many as 250,000 people could be made redundant.
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Hundreds of workers at the Nissan car plant in Sunderland protested on Saturday against attacks on their pension scheme.
Council workers in east London are preparing for three days of strikes against a bullying management determined to undermine their terms and conditions.
Local councils across England plan swingeing cuts in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.
A campaign by the United Voices of the World (UVW) union has won at the Ministry of Justice, (MOJ) after bosses announced that its cleaners would receive full pay if self-isolating or ill.
Activists in the UCU union are organising to reject an offer on long-running disputes over pay, contracts, workload and equality.
Members of the construction safety campaign organised a protest at the site of a crane collapse in east London last week.
Workers in Leicester were pushed to work in unsafe conditions for less than the minimum wage during the pandemic
