Redundancy blow at Meggit
Workers at Parker Meggitt found out in mid-October that around 200 jobs will go by the end of the year – only weeks after being taken over by a US rival…
Workers at Parker Meggitt found out in mid-October that around 200 jobs will go by the end of the year – only weeks after being taken over by a US rival…
27 October 2022
Workers in Bury at flooring manufacturer Polyflor are renewing their strike for better pay. The company’s improved offer is still below the level of inflation.
Unite has called on the government to prioritise British jobs and industries when tendering for defence contracts.
Violence broke out in Leicester in September – the unwelcome result of Indian sub-continent politics coming to Britain in a city where immigrants have settled and lived for decades, for the most part peacefully.
Around 70 HGV drivers and shunters at Muller’s Stonehouse factory in Gloucestershire are to escalate their dispute...
Criminal barristers voted in October to accept an improved pay offer from the government...
Nearly 600 workers at the Port of Liverpool decided to walk out from 24 October to 7 November over pay and job security.
On 13 September, the European Parliament voted to keep the definition of woody biomass as renewable energy.
The rail disputes are now nearly six months old, and railway workers and their unions – led by RMT – are now resigned to a long-drawn-out campaign...
24 October 2022
The University and College Union has announced that over 70,000 university staff at 150 universities could strike after an overwhelming Yes vote for strike action in what it calls “two historic national ballots”.
23 October 2022
The rail disputes are now nearly six months old, and railway workers and their unions – led by RMT – are now resigned to a long-drawn-out campaign as they fight for the future of their jobs and their industry.
7 October 2022
Over 560 dockers at the Port of Liverpool have just completed the first two-week planned phase of their strike action over pay and conditions. Now more workers are set to join in with fresh action from 11 to 17 October.
6 October 2022
With criminal barristers ramping up their industrial action to all-out strike from the start of September, the government has made an improved offer to try to get the courts back to work in England and Wales.
27 September 2022
Thousands of lecturers at further education colleges in England are striking this week and next in a battle over pay in the biggest action ever taken by FE workers.
20 September 2022
Unions at aerospace and defence company Rolls-Royce are to ballot for industrial action after talks on pay broke down at the beginning of September.
Ferry workers on the Red Funnel crossings from Southampton to Cowes on the Isle of Wight continued their pay fight with strikes throughout August.
The US and South Korea announced the start their biggest joint war games for years on 22 August. Troops plus warships, aircraft and tanks simulated an attack on North Korea.
After nearly two months of intermittent industrial action, criminal barristers in England and Wales have voted to escalate to uninterrupted, indefinite strikes.
A month after praising Guy’s and St Thomas’s Hospital as “amazing” for the treatment his wife had received, Education Secretary James Cleverly has re-imposed the cap on medical training places.
23 August 2022
Around 1,000 journalists across Britain and Ireland working for the Reach group start four days of strike action on Friday 26 August after rejecting a pay increase of 3 per cent.
Massive cuts in bus services across England are under way as the government cuts financial support. This is deliberate and avoidable government policy.
21 August 2022
BT Group and Openreach telecoms workers will hold further strikes at the end of August. They are fighting against below inflation pay increases – in effect, wage cuts.
21 August 2022
Post Office workers are continuing industrial action in their ongoing pay dispute. Like other workers their employer has offered a pay increase well below inflation.
17 August 2022
Liverpool port workers are preparing to start strikes after an inadequate pay offer. A ballot of Unite members overwhelmingly supported taking action.
Felixstowe’s container port ground to a halt on 21 August as Unite members there walked out on an eight-day strike over pay..
15 August 2022
Ferry Workers on Red Funnel Isle of Wight routes are fighting for better pay with a series strikes throughout August.
4 August 2022
A controversial series of children’s story readings are only part of the underlying tale of the decline of children’s library services in Britain.
17 July 2022
Sewage pollution of rivers and canals has become a serious public health concern. It's so bad that the Environment Agency wants to jail offending water company CEOs.
17 July 2022
British students pay heavily for their loans because of high interest rates and flat wages meaning graduates don't make substantial repayments.
17 July 2022
NATO is rapidly expanding its influence in the wake of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Switzerland, legally a neutral country, is one of those being drawn into NATO influence.