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Postal workers escalated their unofficial strike action against Royal Mail today, with scores of new offices in different parts of Britain walking out. Aggressive office managers demanding changes to usual working practices provoked many of the walkouts.

Royal Mail boss Adam "Cobblers" Crozier is known for his mocking, loutish way of speaking, but by slurring post workers for their supposed "Spanish practices", he has upset more people than usual.

The stakes in the dispute between Royal Mail and the CWU union grew today as unofficial strike action in Royal Mail continued to spread. Offices in south east London joined striking colleagues in east and south west London, and there is now a real possibility that all offices and mail centres in London will join the action within the next 24 hours.

The last day of the national postal strikes saw a fantastic spontaneous march by 100 postal workers through the centre of Ipswich chanting "What do we want? Fair pay!When do we want it? Now!". This was followed by a mass meeting of 300 posties to discuss how to take the campaign forward in Ipswich.

Hundreds of postal workers at the Nine Elms mail centre in southwest London have today walked out in an unofficial dispute after their management told them that overtime at the office would cease.

Postal workers walked out unofficially this morning, just hours after many had returned to work following an official 48-hour strike.

Rapid price rises in the cost of tortillas provoked angry demonstrations across Mexico earlier this year. Over 75,000 trade unionists, agricultural workers and others joined the biggest demonstration through Mexico City.

This film sees George Clooney playing an Irish-American former district attorney whose invaluable freelance fixing helps keep a big New York law firm on the rails.

The Darzi report into the future of the NHS published last week restated the government’s commitment to the privatisation of the health service.

Train drivers in Germany’s GDL union held a successful three-hour strike on Friday of last week, bringing much of the country’s rail network to a halt.

Hundreds of thousands of civil service workers in the PCS union are taking part in a consultative ballot about the next stage in their action against 100,000 job cuts, low pay and privatisation.