Museum staff in walkouts
Workers have not been lying down during the summer heat. Across the country they have been taking action against employers where working conditions are not good enough.
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Bus drivers act over conditions
Over 1,500 Arriva North London bus drivers took strike action during August over hot weather working.
Biomedical workers’ pay fight
Hundreds of Unite members at a number of biomedical establishments have been on strike after derisory pay offers.
Migration: Residents protest
Villagers at Barnham in Suffolk and at Piddington in Oxfordshire are defending the tranquillity of their tiny communities against the mass settlement of migrants in their midst...
Car Industry: Good news for Sunderland
Unite has welcomed Nissan’s plans for joint car production with China’s part state-owned Chery at its Sunderland plant.
Mergers: Workers paying the price
Morrisons, the supermarket company, was bought by US private equity company Clayton Dubilier & Rice in 2021 in a deal that saddled Morrisons with £6.6 billion of debt.
NHS workers in action
26 August 2026
Strikes by health workers over pay have been taking place all over the country. Those involved include health visitors, operating theatre staff and pathology staff.
Dollars and debt
26 August 2026
Worried about its own currency, the US has been forced to provide an emergency loan to Japan – to stop it selling dollars to prop up the yen.
Consultants prepare for action
8 July 2026
NHS consultants in England have voted for strike action over pay and conditions. The vote comes shortly after resident doctors settled their own dispute after three years of action.
Menwith Hill call for independence
7 July 2026
On 4 July, US Independence Day, protesters gathered at RAF Menwith Hill to highlight and object to the presence of US bases in Britain. Echoing the Declaration of Independence, they called for freedom from outside interference.
Skilled rail jobs threatened
1 July 2026
Balfour Beatty rail engineers are threatened with redundancy, which will deprive the industry of their essential skills. Their union says publicly owned Network Rail should mitigate this by allocating alternative work.
Ask who wants this war, and why
The risk of an all-out conflict between NATO and Russia is higher now than at any point in the cold war period.