Details of talks between postal workers’ union officials and Royal Mail management show bosses have made big concessions in a dispute over pay, pensions and conditions.
Workers at IT services firm Fujitsu have voted to strike against compulsory redundancies and the victimisation of union reps.
Israel looked set to launch further violent repression against Palestinians after US president Donald Trump said he regarded Jerusalem “the capital of Israel” last week.
Local government employers have offered Unison, GMB and Unite union members in England and Wales a below-inflation 2 percent pay offer for each of the next two years.
RMT union members are due to strike on Arriva Cross Country, Merseyrail, Virgin West Coast, Greater Anglia and South Western Railway
Some 2,000 bus drivers and engineers at Arriva North West were voting on a new pay offer as Socialist Worker went to press on Tuesday.
Right wing news sources have been trying desperately to undermine calls to hold those responsible for the Grenfell Tower fire to account.
Shadow chancellor John McDonnell has intervened to support a key service for women that is under threat in South Yorkshire.
Labour politicians in Tower Hamlets, east London, have been accused of arranging to accept bribes from property developers.
Tory benefit reforms mean thousands of people face a Christmas of uncertainty and the threat of eviction. Mary, a young lone parent in London, is one of them.
Another young black man has died in police custody.
Cops stop and search black people more than white people, but they are less likely to find drugs on black people than white people.
