Twenty activists from the NUT teachers’ union in the west of England met on Thursday of last week to discuss solidarity action in the possible upcoming pay dispute in the Unison union.
The government last week announced that £16 billion funding had been acquired to fund the Crossrail project for London and the south east of England. City businesses, the government and fare revenues will fund Crossrail.
Delegates representing some 100 UCU union branches in further education colleges across England voted at a special conference last Saturday to ballot over pay.
Housing workers ballot over pay
Members of the Unite union at English Church Housing Group (ECHG), part of the Riverside Group, are balloting for action against the company’s 2.5 percent pay offer.
Some 20,000 prison officers in England and Wales took illegal unofficial action on Wednesday of last week against Gordon Brown's public sector wage cuts and the disastrous overcrowding in prisons.
Some 20,000 prison officers in England and Wales took illegal unofficial action on Wednesday 29 August against Gordon Brown’s public sector wage cuts and the disastrous overcrowding in prisons.
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.
In A Disappearing Number – Complicite’s much anticipated new producation – the mathematician GH Hardy seeks to comprehend the ideas of the genius Srinivasa Ramanujan in the chilly English surroundings of Cambridge during the First World War.
In 1428 the peasant who would become known as Joan of Arc announced that voices from god had told her she would liberate France from English occupation.
