Tenants in Waverley in Surrey have voted against the Conservative council’s plans to transfer housing stock in the area, with 52 percent voting against the transfer, with a turnout of 68 percent.
Members of the PCS and Prospect civil service workers’ unions working in magistrate’s courts across England and Wales have voted overwhelmingly for a national strike in a dispute over pay.
Council workers in the communications section of Tower Hamlets council in east London struck on Tuesday and Wednesday of this week in defence of Eileen Short, a Defend Council Housing activist threatened with the sack by the council.
Bus drivers in Aberdeen have voted overwhelmingly to accept First Bus’s offer of a 5 percent pay rise plus a review of the pension and sick pay schemes.
Following the magnificent walkouts and protests in Ireland last week, Irish Ferries workers, who have been occupying two ships in Welsh ports for 21 days, have forced a stunning climbdown from the management of the shipping company.
The war in Iraq is a complete and utter disaster. For the people of Iraq there is more suffering today than under the previous government. You have unlimited torture, the use of chemical weapons, limitless killing of civilians by the occupation forces in Iraq.
One in five pensioners lives on an income of less than £5,000 a year, and the same number say thinking about money makes them feel anxious or depressed, according to research published last week.
Whatever caused the fire at Buncefield oil depot in Hertfordshire on Sunday, we know government driven cuts and deregulation would have made the disaster even worse.
The current debate about torture is an astonishing symptom of how a civilization can regress morally and politically despite the technological advances it may make.
