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NUT union members at Birmingham’s Small Heath school struck for a second day today, Wednesday, and NASUWT union members joined them.

Some 130 primary school janitors in Glasgow are refusing to clear snow or spread grit in a row over “dirty money” with bosses at council-owned Cordia.

Social housing tenants could be forced out of their homes as a new bill is set to become law. Dave Sewell examines its effects—and meets some of the campaigners who are fighting back

 

Junior doctors’ strikes against new contracts are back on, the British Medical Association (BMA) announced on Monday of this week.

The government is set to end lifetime tenancies for council tenants, in an amendment to the Housing and Planning Bill.

Junior doctors across England were set to walkout for 12 hours this morning, Tuesday, in the first of three planned walkouts.

The fight for the NHS is on as junior doctors were set to walk out on Tuesday of next week in the first of three planned walkouts.

Junior doctors will strike three times next month if they back industrial action in a ballot ending on Wednesday of this week.

Scotland’s college workers are inching closer to the first national strike for 20 years. Anger at government cuts and a miserly national pay offer have fuelled a mood to fight.

The British Medical Association (BMA) was to set to ballot its 56,000 junior doctor members for industrial action from Thursday of this week. 

Over the past 15 years a creeping process of outsourcing has been taking place inside the military. John Newsinger argues that the use of mercenaries and contractors undermines democracy.