Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has announced he will speak at the Trades Union Congress anti-austerity demonstration on Saturday 12 May in London.
In another sign of how the Labour right still has influence, the left has failed to win the deputy leader of the Welsh Labour Party.
Care for many elderly and vulnerable people has been thrown into chaos. Only a few months after the Carillion crash, another giant of outsourcing was on the brink of financial collapse at the start of this week.
Workers in Bromley’s libraries have returned to work, after an indefinite strike over pay and outsourcing.
NEU union members at Acton High School in Ealing, west London, struck on Tuesday. The walkout follows a 24-hour strike last Thursday and a two-day strike last month.
Workers at five McDonald’s stores in England were set to strike on Tuesday of next week.
A deal reached by the UCU union and UUK bosses to end a series of strikes over pensions is potentially in chaos.
A wave of anger at the Tories’ racist treatment of the Windrush Generation of migrants has forced Theresa May and Amber Rudd onto the back foot.
Workers at the British Museum protested on Wednesday of last week demanding bosses bring them in house after the collapse of outsourcing giant Carillion. Carillion’s collapse earlier this year left them with no guarantees for their jobs, conditions or future. The workers’ PCS union wants the British Museum to employ them directly.
Delegates at the NUJ journalists’ union conference have backed a national pay campaign against appalling inequality for women in the media.
Health workers in Leeds are fighting plans to outsource over 2,000 jobs to an arms-length company.
Activists in Disabled People Against Cuts (Dpac) held a day of action against Universal Credit (UC) on Wednesday of last week.
