Thirteen environmental protesters won a last minute reprieve from jail today, Wednesday, for resisting airport expansion plans that would be a disaster for the climate.
College workers across England are on strike today, Wednesday, against a 0 percent pay "offer".
College workers across England were set to strike on Wednesday of this week over pay. The walkout, by UCU and Unison union members, will be the first joint pay strike in ten years.
Lecturers in the EIS-Fela Scottish teachers’ and lecturers’ union are balloting for a national strike. They are demanding equal pay and fighting the imposition of a previously rejected offer.
Teachers at Birmingham’s Small Heath School began a three-day strike in defence of victimised NUT union rep Simon O’Hara today, Tuesday.
Unison union president Wendy Nichols said last week that the long-awaited returning officer’s report into the general secretary election “confirms the result”.
The British Medical Association (BMA) has called more strikes in the battle against Jeremy Hunt's imposed contracts. Junior doctors will strike for 48 hours on Wednesday 9 March and two other dates.
Young Labour’s annual conference was set to elect a seat to the party’s National Executive Committee as it met in Scarborough this week.
The supposedly “anti-austerity” Scottish National Party (SNP) is slashing £500 million from Scottish council budgets this year. The Scottish government’s budget was set to be finalised in Holyrood this week, signalling the start of another round of severe local government cuts.
A man accused of murdering an Asian pensioner in Rotherham, South Yorkshire, held “racist beliefs”, a court has heard.
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