Solidarity with BA workers who are on strike, unfortunately I won't be able to make the demo this morning but I hope it all goes well. It is scandalous the way BA and willie walsh are treating these staff. Let's hope unite and Len McLuskey who is the chief negotiator in this keeps fighting all the way. It was disappointing to hear talk of unite being willing to recommend a 2.6% pay cut and...

Strikes by British Airways staff and rail workers threaten to throw the travel plans of millions of people into chaos.

The Tories seize on strikes by BA and railway workers to claim Britain is facing a "spring of discontent" because of Labour.

So there we have it: talks between the BA management and Unite have collapsed, and the strike is back on for midnight tonight.  Throw in the news that railway workers have also voted in favour of strikes, and it looks like there will be more transport trouble ahead. Politically-speaking, the government won't enjoy operating against a backdrop of industrial unrest as the election approach...

Railway signal workers vote in favour of strikes in a row over jobs - as British Airways and unions battle to avert walkouts.

Prospective Labour MP calls on Tory to apologise for suggesting a third of public sector workers could lose their job. Jack Scott, Labour’s Prospective Parliamentary Candidate for Sheffield Hallam, has today called for his Conservative opponent to apologise for suggesting every public sector worker in Sheffield would lose their job. Nicola Bates, the Conservative Candidate for Sheffield Hall...

It’s curious how the renewed pressure on China to let the yuan rise and make its exports less competitive comes at just the time when the workers in those enterprises are starting to make something like real money. Obviously, the...

STAFF working at embassies in Britain are being treated as "modern-day slaves", Gordon Brown was told yesterday.

The Senate passed an $18bn jobs bill, that offer tax breaks to companies hiring unemployed workers, a critical part of efforts by President Barack Obama'to tackle the stubbornly high jobless rate

One of the defences that Labour types are mustering over Unite is, bascially, that it's better to be funded by a body which represents some two million workers than by Ashcroft type figures who may have their own personal agendas. In which case, the question is: do Charlie Whelan and his coterie really represent the views and interests of Unite's members?  And, in answer, it's ...