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GMB members have overwhelmingly voted to reject Birmingham City Council’s pay and grading proposals this week at one of the first meetings organised by GMB throughout the city.

Birmingham Respect had an excellent day’s campaigning in the Lozells & East Handsworth ward in Birmingham last Sunday.

The National Union of Journalists’ (NUJ) annual delegate meeting in Birmingham last week voted for the union to organise a day of action on 5 November over low pay.

Over 700 people crammed into a meeting last week in Birmingham to discuss defending people’s right to stay in Britain.

Birmingham Around 300 council workers lobbied Birmingham council's cabinet meeting on Monday lunchtime. The meeting was due to decide to implement the single status proposals.

Over 2,500 Birmingham local government workers gathered last week at one of the biggest trade union mass meetings for years.

Around 100 people came to an Organising for Fighting Unions meeting in Birmingham on Monday – despite roads around the venue being closed by police after a stabbing.

A huge battle is brewing in Birmingham with serious implications for over a million workers across Britain.

Becca Kirkpatrick, a Unison union shop steward at the National Blood Centre in Birmingham, will be joining the anti-war demonstration in London this Saturday.

‘I was born in Sparkhill in Birmingham. I went to college locally and then to Birmingham University where I got a degree in theology and a masters in education.

The terror raids carried out in Birmingham last week highlight once again the manner in which the Muslim community is being victimised.

Birmingham Respect councillor Salma Yaqoob will be on BBC1's Question Time at 10.35pm tonight, Thursday 8 February. Among other topics, she is likely to be talking about the war on a terror, in a week when many of her own voters feel increasingly threatened.