Workers at the failed Metronet tube maintenance company are to mount two 72-hour strikes as the bankrupt company’s administrator has not secured guarantees over jobs, conditions and pensions.
Workers at the failed Metronet tube maintenance company are to mount two 72-hour strikes as the bankrupt company’s administrator has not secured guarantees over jobs, conditions and pensions.
A Coventry taxi driver was racially abused and battered with a metal bar last Saturday. Some 600 Coventry taxi drivers went on strike in response last weekend.
Health workers at Sheffield’s Northern General hospital walked out on Monday of this week over pay cuts imposed when management axed thousands of pounds in allowances.
The Chinese army is invading the US through tunnels beneath the Pacific Ocean and is planting atomic bombs under military bases. So ran the plot of a 1967 B-movie, Battle Beneath the Earth.
It has the seventh lowest life expectancy, the fifth lowest GDP per head and the third lowest level of purchasing power in the world. But it also has the ninth highest level of consumer price inflation and the ninth highest prevalence of HIV/Aids.
Local government employers have agreed to reopen talks with unions over this year’s disputed local government pay offer in England, Northern Ireland and Wales.
The government’s recent "improvement" to the pay offer to health workers in England is being greeted with widespread derision and dismay – particularly in Unison, the largest union in the NHS.
Royal mail management are still refusing to release the company’s full financial accounts – which would reveal the extent of the bonuses paid to company bosses.
Around 100,000 workers in the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) have just received a below inflation pay offer. The PCS civil service workers’ union group executive in the DWP has rejected the offer and members are balloting over it until 10 September.
Hospital closures put lives at risk
Thousands of patients could die as a result of the closure and downgrading of local hospitals, new research has revealed.
Health workers in Manchester have delivered a stinging rebuke to their management by voting by almost 90 percent to take strike action to defend suspended nurse and Unison union activist Karen Reissmann.
