Residents of northern Lancashire have had everything thrown at them to drive through fracking—and they are still standing strong.
If anyone is unsure what low paid, largely migrant workers can achieve when their union supports them, look no further than our inspirational fight at Soas—the School of Oriental and African Studies.
Labour won four out of six council by-elections held on Thursday of last week. And in two of them—Margate Central and Milton Regis—Jeremy Corbyn’s party took the seat from the racist Ukip party.
Twelve protesters, including three local councillors, were brought before Blackpool Magistrates Court on Monday for resisting firm Cuadrilla’s attempt at fracking.
Outsourcers swept away| Three-week strike at Argos| Bosses are on the rocks
Steel workers in Sheffield are planning their next strike after a two-week walkout over pay ended on Monday.
Royal Mail workers could ballot for industrial action as early as this month. Bosses are preparing to launch a massive attack on workers’ pensions, wages and conditions.
Workers at two McDonald’s restaurants in Cambridge and Crayford, south London, are preparing to ballot for strikes
The mother of Edson Da Costa has died because of shock after losing her only son, his family has said.
Tenants organise as landlords and Tories refuse to act on the lessons of the disaster
The number of people hit by the Tory benefit cap rocketed after the threshold was lowered last November, according to government figures released last week.
The TUC union federation has called a major lobby and rally of parliament on 17 October “to tell our MPs that Britain’s dedicated public servants need a pay rise”.
