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The Unite union called a lobby at Warrington town hall on Tuesday of this week, to defend a councillor who voted against cuts.

One of Britain’s biggest brick factories faces an all-out strike from Monday of next week.

The Unite union’s general secretary election is heating up as it enters its second week.

Some 300 workers were set to strike on Wednesday and Thursday of this week at the Welsh Country Foods lamb processing factory in Anglesey, north Wales.

As voting begins for general secretary of Britain’s biggest union, rank and file candidate Jerry Hicks spoke to Dave Sewell about his vibrant campaign

The news that Vauxhall in Ellesmere Port is to move to a four-day week, albeit with no cut in basic working hours, highlights the predicament facing the UK motor industry. The industry appeared to have recovered from the worst of the recession.

Unite is Britain's biggest union. The approach it takes to combating austerity and job losses makes a big difference to workers in all sectors. Eddie Cimorelli asks whether Unite is living up to its militant image

Electricians have won a stunning victory which should give hope to us all. After a six-month-long battle they have defeated the wage-cutting plans of multinational corporations

Electricians have been protesting for months against wage cuts and attacks on their terms and conditions. Last December workers took unofficial strike action. Simon Basketter looks at the background to this battle and the prospects for rebuilding union organisation on construction sites.

I started working in the construction industry in 1993 as an apprentice electrician. Since then I have witnessed not just the lack of real-term pay rises, but also a year on year assault on our terms and conditions through forced bogus self-employment. So when I received a text message at the beginning of August from...

The image of work in the IT industry is dominated by the clever nerd lacking social skills and the highly paid consultant.

We have just been on all-out strike for three weeks. We struck to resist plans by Superdrug to attack our pay and conditions.