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Donald Trump won’t visit Britain next month because he is too scared of protesters

A ballot of UCU union members for strikes over pensions was set to end on Friday. Workers at some 68 universities across Britain are balloting to stop an attack on their USS pension scheme.

Politicians and bosses rushed to denounce failed firm Carillion as the latest in a long list of companies described as the “unacceptable face of capitalism”.

Carillion was Britain’s second-largest construction company, employing 43,000 people globally.

An urgent call to resist the Tories’ attacks on the NHS went out from a health campaigners’ meeting in London on Thursday of last week.

 

Also, anti-fracking protest in York, Bradford children's services at risk and more

Hundreds of vital workers in Birmingham are striking to save a home care service from cuts.

Cowardly, sexist, racist US president Donald Trump has lurched from crisis to crisis since his inauguration a year ago this Saturday. His attacks have been relentless—but the resistance has been inspiring.

But it does show what social workers face whenever something goes wrong—with an underlying political row

The Unite union is calling on its members in English and Welsh local government to reject their pay offer in a consultative ballot.

The Labour Party’s left wing leadership has shown serious signs of accommodating to the right and big business in a bid to appear respectable.