Dispute over Birmingham’s refuse collection services takes bizarre turn as council stretches credulity in attempt to use Thatcher-era anti-union laws to block strike over discriminatory payments The twists and turns […]
Last Friday, all Birmingham City Council (BCC) Labour councillors received a set of emails from Majid Mahmood, their colleague who had resigned only days earlier as cabinet member for waste […]
Birmingham City Council (BCC) is embroiled in a dispute with the Unite and Unison unions over BCC’s extra payment to GMB members among its refuse collectors who did not participate […]
Refuse collectors in Birmingham successfully took industrial action in 2017 after Birmingham City Council (BCC) reneged on a pay agreement and tried to coerce workers into backing down with a threat […]
Shipyard workers and their unions have achieved a major victory in their fight to prevent hundreds of redundancies at the Cammell Laird shipyard on Merseyside. In a meeting this afternoon […]
Union members at the Cammell Laird shipyard in Birkenhead are united in a rolling strike action to defend their jobs after the company announced plans to make around forty percent […]
Unite and GMB members have been picketing the Cammell Laird shipyard in Birkenhead since Monday as part of rolling strike action in response to the company’s plan to impose almost […]
Unite and GMB workers are staging a rolling strike and picket outside the Cammell Laird shipyard in Birkenhead after the company announced plans to make almost three hundred staff redundant […]
Welsh Labour has ‘gone OMOV’ (one member one vote) for the election of its leader, after conference delegates in Cardiff voted with an overall 64.1% in favour (weighted percentages). 35.9% […]
The tweet On Sunday, Bassetlaw MP John Mann tweeted smugly about the ‘unequivocal vote of confidence‘ he had received from his local members: The protest If it seems odd that […]