Three women have come forward to allege that a former Liberal Democrat MP carried out abuse against them as girls.
Cleaners working for facilities firm Interserve on Docklands Light Railway (DLR) began a 48-hour strike on Wednesday of last week over pay and working conditions. Also: Tube workers fight rosters, strike on TransPennine Express
The RMT union suspended a planned strike at Network Rail after bosses made a new offer.
Engineering maintenance workers at door and lift firm Kone ended a strike on Monday of this week with a new agreement with management.
Workers in the Community union at Tata Steel plants across Britain have voted by almost 90 percent to strike in defence of their pensions.
Up to 400 people joined a demonstration outside Dungavel detention centre in Scotland last Saturday. The protest was called by the Scottish TUC (STUC).
Fresh inquests into the Hillsborough disaster heard evidence about 14 year old victim Adam Spearritt on Monday of this week.
Up to 600 Filipino health workers and supporters rallied outside the Daily Mail’s west London offices last Saturday, to defiant chants of “End racism now”.
Short news stories from the past week on cops using tasers, deaths in custody, and the queen scrounging even more cash
Tory austerity is wrecking working class lives across Britain—and their latest assault will only make things worse.
The Tories have unveiled plans to push up poverty, increase evictions and sell off more public services—and that’s only the start of their assault.
Unison union members in Barnet, north London, held a council-wide strike on Monday and Tuesday of this week.
