Ballots are under way across higher education sector
Train cleaners working for Rentokil Initial on East Midlands Trains were set to begin a 48-hour strike on Friday of this week. The RMT union members want a living wage and better conditions.
Cleaners working for ISS on London Underground are refusing to have their fingerprints scanned to clock into work. The RMT union members began the action on Thursday of last week. They also plan to refuse to work overtime on Friday of this week.
Tube drivers on London Underground Victoria Line were set to strike on Tuesday of this week from 9pm to 3am over working conditions. Their RMT union says bosses are making drivers do overtime.
Beds run short and A&Es turn away patients as Tory cuts push the NHS into gridlock, reports Sarah Ensor
A 25,000-strong march for Scottish independence filled the streets of Edinburgh last Saturday—more than double last year.
Newly revealed footage from after the Marikana mine massacre of 2012 shows Brigadier Adriaan Calitz, praising police for a perfectly executed plan. It was Calitz who had ordered the police to open fire on striking miners.
The CDU party of German chancellor Angela Merkel increased its vote at last Sunday’s German election. But her coalition partner, the neoliberal FDP, lost all its MPs for the first time since 1948. Merkel’s popularity came from the relative stability of the growing economy.
The Abortion Rights campaign in Cardiff will hold a counter protest against the anti-abortion 40 Days for Life group each Saturday starting this week.
More than 1,000 workers are being balloted for industrial action at the Grangemouth oil refinery near Falkirk, Scotland.
Probation workers held lunchtime protests against privatisation on Thursday of last week. The Tories want to sell contracts for some probation work to private firms.
Some 250 people joined a Unite Against Fascism (UAF) protest in north Sheffield to oppose a rally by the racist English Defence League (EDL).
