councils
Tory housing green paper will not solve the crisis - we need more council housing
The Tories announced their new social housing green paper on Tuesday.
Birmingham care strikers standing solid
Birmingham’s heroic home carers are gearing up for a fresh week of action that will see them strike, picket and protest.
'We're striking to save care' say Birmingham home care workers
Home care workers in Birmingham began a two-day strike today to stop the total destruction of their service.
Workers shut down East Dunbartonshire council services over attacks on conditions
A four-day strike has brought huge sections of East Dunbartonshire council to a standstill
John McDonnell pledges council housing - but Labour is divided
The Labour Party can’t agree on housing policy just as the Grenfell Tower fire has highlighted the urgent need to address the crisis.
Fighting back because we care - Birmingham home care workers speak out
Women workers in Birmingham spoke to Sarah Bates about their battle to stop a Labour council attacking a key service in the city
Service users fight Labour council's plans to close their adult day care centre
15 February 2018Service users and their families are fighting to save their vital adult day care centre from the brutal cuts of Birmingham council.
LETTERS: They won’t stop us fighting for solidarity with Palestine
12 February 2018Plus We must defend the NHS, keep cash for the councils and cop spies
Glasgow council workers demand ‘equal pay or we walk away’
10 February 2018Around 500 low paid women council workers marched through the city centre of Glasgow. They demanded that city council chiefs settle a 12-year equal pay dispute.
Cuts, closures and outsourcing show councils in chaos
08 February 2018More than half of councils in England are planning to slash costs by closing children’s centres, reducing support for disabled children and cutting child protection teams.
A powerful meeting demands justice for Grenfell
01 February 2018An important meeting injected urgency into the Justice4Grenfell campaign
Southwark protest sees developers’ plans thwarted
31 January 2018Southwark council’s planning committee has postponed a crucial decision about the future of the Elephant and Castle shopping centre in south London.
Birmingham home care workers strike for jobs, the service and against brutal shift changes
20 January 2018Hundreds of striking home care workers marched through snow in Birmingham declaring they would fight to defend the service they provide.
Hundreds of Birmingham care workers set to strike over cuts and rotas
16 January 2018Hundreds of vital workers in Birmingham are striking to save a home care service from cuts.
Unite union calls on members to reject the pay offer in local government
16 January 2018The Unite union is calling on its members in English and Welsh local government to reject their pay offer in a consultative ballot.
Home care workers saving service from destruction
09 January 2018Around 350 home care workers in Birmingham plan to strike later this month
Grenfell survivors spurned again, as housing bosses grab millions
30 December 2017About 100 households that survived the fire spent Christmas Day in hotels, and some did not receive money they had been promised
Bradford protesters say no to children's services cuts
12 December 2017The People's Assembly and members of the Unite and Unison unions came together to defend services
Keep this vital domestic violence service open, John McDonnell tells Labour council
12 December 2017Shadow chancellor John McDonnell has intervened to support a key service for women that is under threat in South Yorkshire.
Labour councillors wanted bribes for planning permission, tape suggests
12 December 2017Labour politicians in Tower Hamlets, east London, have been accused of arranging to accept bribes from property developers.
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- Union leaders are wrong to make concessions that weaken Corbyn
- New book remembers when women workers struck and won equal pay at Trico
- Aretha Franklin gave us a vision of struggle - and of a radically different world
- Attack on two Birmingham mosques shows the need to take on state Islamophobia
- Drive to save money lies behind Italian bridge collapse in Genoa
- Officer who restrained Rashan Charles cleared of misconduct by cops’ pet watchdog
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