Some 85,000 civil service workers in the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) are set to strike on Tuesday and Wednesday of next week over government attacks on jobs, services and conditions.
Some 85,000 civil service workers in the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) are set to strike on Tuesday and Wednesday of next week over government attacks on jobs, services and conditions.
Rail workers in four unions are preparing to ballot for a strike in defence of their pensions. Any strike would involve 80,000 workers and bring Britain’s rail network to a halt.
Workers at the BBC are mobilising against the corporation’s planned changes to its pensions scheme. This will mean thousands of staff working longer, paying more and receiving reduced benefits.
Shock, bitterness and anger spread across West Midlands at the news of the plan to close the Peugeot plant in Ryton, Coventry, in 2007. The closure would mean the loss of 2,300 jobs.
The US, reveals the Washington Post this week, is engaged in planning military operations in 20 countries across five continents as part of its "long war" against terror.
With oil prices above $70 a barrel, could biofuels help to solve our energy crisis and reduce climate change at the same time? From George Bush to the European Union (EU), governments around the world seem to think so – and are beginning to subsidise the new biofuel revolution.
Respect is standing five council candidates across Birmingham. Salma Iqbal is standing alongside Salma Yaqoob and Lynne Hubbard in the south of the city.
Marilyn Boyle has been waiting 20 years for a transfer from her house. It’s been slowly subsiding into the garages underneath and, 17 years ago, when she was eight and a half months pregnant, Marilyn fell through the rotting kitchen floor.
