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Around 150 teaching assistants (TAs) descended on Derby Council’s head office on Tuesday blowing whistles, ringing bells and waving flags and placards.

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Cabin crew at BA are standing up to intimidation from their bosses, writes Dave Sewell

IT workers in Manchester are resisting a multinational firm's attack. Fujitsu is holding down pay, robbing pensions and planning mass layoffs.

Durham teaching assistants (TAs) have forced council bosses to retreat. But a chance for a clear cut victory was snatched away from them by union officials.

Real wages in Britain are set to fall below 2008 levels by 2021 and the poorest third of households are going to get poorer

Right wing MPs fear falling social mobility could undermine support for the free market system, writes Sadie Robinson

Workers at Picturehouse cinemas in Brixton and Hackney in London struck last week in their long-running fight for decent pay.

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The resilience of the gender pay gap is nothing to celebrate, Sadie Robinson argues—and the reasons tell us something about how the system uses sexism

Labour-run Durham County Council is playing classic divide and rule to ram through its 23 percent cut to pay teaching assistants' (TAs) pay in the hope it can undermine a move towards strikes.