Tolpuddle Martyrs Festival 2024 Government workers threaten strikes over Israeli arms sales licences

GOVERNMENT workers are threatening to walk out amid growing concern that arms sales to Israel breach international law.

Hackney councillor charged with child sexual assault days after quitting council

A HACKNEY Labour councillor has resigned after being accused of sexually assaulting a child.

Pupil suspensions soar to record highs amid widespread child poverty and post-pandemic austerity

PUPIL suspensions and exclusions have soared to record highs in England amid unions’ warnings of a Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (Send

Covid inquiry: Public failed by unfocused government and austerity-hit health service

THE public was failed during the pandemic by the government’s “damaging absence of focus,” the Civil Service and a health service hamstrung by aust

Labour council accused of union-busting ahead of making £25m cuts

LEWISHAM Council has been accused of racist union-busting after it tried to sack both of its Unison branch secretaries as it prepares to make £25 m

Welsh National Opera musicians announce strikes over being made part-time

MUSICIANS at the Welsh National Opera (WNO) are set to strike over plans to force them to work part-time and cut their pay by 15 per cent, their un

Unions welcome Labour's King's Speech but warn ‘financial straitjacket’ cannot be allowed to block real change

Historic Amazon union recognition ballot losses by a whisker

GMB pledges legal challenge over retail giant’s union-busting tactics

New government has a ‘vital chance to reset the economy’, says TUC as inflation stalls at 2%

LABOUR has a “vital chance to start again on the economy” after inflation held at 2 per cent last month, the TUC said today.

Nuclear war never closer, CND campaigners warn as they camp outside RAF Lakenheath

NUCLEAR war has never been closer as Nato and Russia fight a proxy war in Ukraine and Gaza remains under siege, peace campaigners warned yesterday