Open University (OU) workers have delivered an historic vote for strikes to stop job cuts and office closures.
Planned strikes this week at St Wilfrid’s Catholic High School suspended, Derbyshire school support staff protest council cuts and teachers plan parliament lobby.
Over 2,000 steel workers and supporters marched through Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire, on Tuesday of this week chanting, “Save our steel”.
RMT union members on London Underground have called on the union to step up the campaign to defend union activist Glen Hart.
Anti-racists were set to protest against the racist English Defence League (EDL) in Bradford, West Yorkshire, on Saturday.
Tory MPs were set to push the Trade Union Bill through its third reading on Tuesday of this week. They are determined to axe more public services and undermine any trade union opposition.
Firefighters in the West Midlands could ballot for action over plans to cut 300 jobs, the FBU union said. West Midlands Fire Service says the jobs will go through “natural wastage”. This means that when a worker leaves or retires they will not be replaced. It will leave the service understaffed.
Warmongers are using the downing of a Russian jet killing 224 passengers and crew as justification for a new war in Syria.
The row inside the Labour Party over Trident nuclear weapons continued after the head of the army criticised Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn’s anti-nuclear position.
Hundreds protested outside Downing Street on Wednesday evening and again this morning, Thursday, against Egypt’s military-backed president Abdel Fattah el-Sisi.
