RIVER Thames weir and lockkeepers are preparing to ballot for strike action over increasing flooding risks linked to understaffing of the system.<

RISING rates of pupil absences in secondary schools have led to disadvantaged young people falling further behind their peers since the pandemic, a

ON THE third anniversary of the P&O Ferries scandal today, the TUC and seafarers’ unions are demanding urgent amendments to the Employment Righ

NEARLY seven in 10 households in England face their third year of maximum council tax hikes.

THE Home Office has been slammed for repeatedly failing to assess the impact of changing a visa route for skilled workers.

ENERGY SECRETARY Ed Miliband arrived in Beijing today to restart climate talks with the world’s largest investor in and supplier of renewable energ

MINISTERS have been urged to establish fair pay agreements to tackle recruitment problems in construction, childcare and the rail industry.

LEFT-WING campaign group Momentum has begun lobbying Labour MPs to block cuts to welfare spending.

THE Employment Rights Bill has significant loopholes on fire and rehire that fail “the very workers it claims to protect,” a union-backed think ta