Workers on strike at two north west bus companies are driving bosses round the bend, writes Sarah Bates
Postal workers’ union leaders looked set to announce at least parts of a possible agreement with Royal Mail bosses on Tuesday of this week. The CWU union has been in negotiation with bosses in a dispute over pensions, pay and conditions.
Families on their first ever demonstration were among the 200-strong crowd marching through the market town of Pickering in Ryedale, North Yorkshire, on Saturday against fracking.
Some 200 people marched through Brixton against the demolition of six estates in the south London borough of Lambeth last Saturday.
Strikes at the University of Brighton have forced bosses to withdraw plans for compulsory redundancies.
The first strike day against academisation at Avenue School in Newham, east London, took place on Wednesday of last week. Also: Reports from Charlton Park Academy in Greenwich, the Village School in Brent and Westways Primary School in Sheffield
Driving examiners held a two-day national strike on Monday and Tuesday as bosses at the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) implemented a new test.
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The Football Lads Alliance (FLA) is supporting a Veterans Against Terrorism march in Newcastle in February
The system of locking up migrants in detention centres must come to an end, doctors have warned
Activists across Britain are organising in solidarity with refugees and migrants trapped in the cold by Britain’s border in northern France
Chants of “Islamophobia no way—Muslim people here to stay” rang out in front of the McDonald's on Seven Sisters Road
