Night shifts are wrecking rail workers’ health and family lives, RMT warns

NIGHT work is pushing rail workers towards dangerous health conditions and damaging their family lives, according to a new RMT report. 

Significant health concerns for soaring numbers of BME nightshift workers, TUC warns

SOARING numbers of black and ethnic minority (BME) workers face significant health risks from night shifts, new research by the TUC warns today.

‘Tommy Robinson and his band of thugs are not the voice of the working class’

Biggest anti-fascist demonstration in decades to take place in London

Hospital porters who report ‘appalling levels of bullying and harassment’ launch strike ballot

HOSPITAL workers have reported “appalling levels of bullying and harassment” including having to tell their bosses every time they go to the toile

New IER podcast to examine Labour's New Deal for Working People under a microscope

A NEW podcast series promising accessible and authoritative analysis of the government’s employment reforms launched today.

Britain's most vulnerable facing fuel poverty ‘public health emergency,’ health workers tell government

‘All of my children have asthma’: Locals protest as rents skyrocket in gentrifying London borough

A FAMILY of six who live in a tiny damp-filled room were among dozens of renters who took to the streets today in protest at London’s spiralling ho

Union threatens Science Museum contractor with historic private prosecution

A SECURITY contractor used by the Science and Natural History museums has been threatened with a private prosecution over alleged strike-breaking r

Winchester prison falling apart amid ‘very high levels of violence’

WINCHESTER prison is falling apart amid “very high levels of violence” and needs urgent improvement, the prisons watchdog warned today.

Prospect signs voluntary recognition agreement with HE Space

PROSPECT has signed its first voluntary recognition agreement with a company solely involved in the fast-growing space industry.