Issues Follow Follow

What are the key issues behind the post dispute?

"I get up at 4.30am for a 5.30am start five days a week, including Saturdays, and I work until 1.30pm. The kind of people who write rubbish about us simply wouldn’t know what that is like.

Anger continues to grow inside the Unite union at the role of Royal Mail managers in attempting to break the post strikes.

Post workers’ picket lines were buoyed this week by fellow trade unionists bringing solidarity collections – and students who had come bearing cakes.

With a thumping 76 percent vote for strike action in the national ballot the leadership of the CWU union should be banging their war drums. So why are they busy sending peace signals instead?

The feeling around our office when news of the massive yes vote for national strikes came through can only be compared to the feeling we all had when Margaret Thatcher got kicked out of office in 1990.

Those at the top keep telling us that "we’re all in it together".

The BBC’s decision to invite Nick Griffin, the leader of the fascist British National Party (BNP), onto next week’s Question Time is continuing to cause outrage.

With entries from all over the world, this carnival of film is a must for anyone interested in the power of documentaries to inform and inspire.

This foyer exhibition celebrates the role played by South Asian women in two vital industrial disputes – at Grunwick in the 1970s, and Gate Gourmet in 2005.

In this fascinating, and one of the last ever editions of the South Bank Show, writer Lee Hall talks about his recent play, The Pitmen Painters.