Leading trade unionist Steve Hedley accused of domestic violence
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Caroline Leneghan, an RMT member, has publicly accused her former partner Steve Hedley, who is Assistant General Secretary of the RMT, of serious domestic violence.
Trade union issues
Workers' solidarity in Australia
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Solidarity spoke to Emma Kerin, Communications Officer of the National Union of Workers in Australia, about class struggle down under.
How workers' action freed the Pentonville Five
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It is July 1972.
Close the detention centres!
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Immigrants facing deportation staged protests in late December at the Morton Hall detention centre in Lincolnshire.
Tories attempt to bully low-paid out of striking
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Low-paid striking workers will have their tax credits reduced as part of the Tories’ reforms.
Police against Tories
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On 10 May 20,000 coppers joined a Police Federation demonstration against cuts and reforms. On the same day just 500 public sector workers joined London’s strike day rally against pension cuts.
Industrial news in brief
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Forty-five workers at the Enterprise Distribution Centre, which unloads paper reels from incoming vessels at the Tilbury docks in Essex, struck on Monday 7 May, the first walkout at the docks since 1989.
Sunderland College strike ballot; Greenwich libraries strike; new NUJ chapel in Wapping
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Workers at Sunderland College will be balloted for strike action in a dispute over pay.
Tanker drivers to vote on deal
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More than 2,000 fuel tanker drivers will vote on an offer from the fuel haulage industry’s major employers that bosses hope will settle a dispute on job security, health and safety, and minimum standa
Fighting the Tories: what next?
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Bankers’ and bosses’ pay and bonuses, share prices, and profits have recovered nicely since the sudden crash of 2008-9.