Leicester City branch have been hard at it campaigning for public services. Since the start of the summer the branch supported the Academy Lobby in London with five branch reps attending. They...

Unnecessary and ideologically driven central government cuts to councils means that Leicester City Council are now planning to cut over 350 jobs in the next year. A report in the Leicester Mercury...

By Dalya Alberge in The Guardian: Today's dramatists are failing to confront issues of injustice, writing instead "for attention spans of 10 minutes between adverts", leading political playwright Athol Fugard has said. ...He applauded some of the "extraordinary" political work that has emerged...

T Blair makes an interesting point, doesn't he? "I think the single biggest danger with the financial crisis was a view that gripped a lot of progressive politicians that somehow people were going to want the state to come back in fashion," he says in his interview. "I didn't think that and don't...

After the weeks of touring the UK doing meetings union reps from the NUJ, Bectu and Unite will today get the result of the ballots for strike action over pensions. We expect to make an announcement between 3.30pm and 4pm today after our reps have had a chance to consider a report back on the...

So Tony Blair says that he knew Brown's premiership would be a disaster (http://m.guardian.co.uk/ms/p/gmg/op/sDtTw6B1McjXe3RtcOrYA_w/view.m?id=553170&tid=120787&cat=News). I can't help feeling Blair brings all the perspective of an Ouslum bird...

In the next few days the 430,000 UNISON members who pay a political fund contribution to Labour Link will be receiving a Labour Party leadership ballot paper – the ballot opens today 1 September. The...

UNISON is joining a protest tonight against plans to axe up to 1,400 jobs in Bolton Council. Trade unionists and members of the public will join the Trades Union Council rally outside the...

"Market extremists argue that the private sector can do almost everything better than governments. The most extreme do not concede the qualifier "almost" and argue that even the police and army...

Despite UNISON urging Norfolk County Council to rethink plans to cut £2.8m from its Connexions careers service, council leaders look set to press ahead with the plans....

This morning's media is of course full of extracts from the memoirs of Tony Blair. It is at times like this that the Labour Party realises how much we lost when John Smith died. Blair is like a...

 London Assembly member John Biggs is standing to be the Labour Party candidate to run for Tower Hamlets Mayor. There has been the usual exciting and colourful Tower Hamlets selection process. Labour Party members (only) will vote on Saturday on who they want to be their candidate...

"I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. Already they have raised up a monied aristocracy that has set the government at defiance. The issuing power (of money) should be taken away from the banks and restored to the people to whom it properly...

So on waking up this morning I realised that it’s happening tomorrow, a whole month without eating any meat. And although Vegtember hadn’t really started yet, I had already started...

September/October is that time of year when the great and the [not so] good troop off to their conference jamboree at either a tired seaside resort or a vibrant city centre. For those of us in the...

London Underground plans to: get rid of around 800 station staff posts reduce ticket office opening times by around 7,500 hours carry out essential maintenance checks on trains every four weeks instead of every two weeks cut the number of train drivers’ posts Tube trade unions RMT and TSSA have...

The National Party led Government this month introduced two new Bills to Parliament to drastically change employment law in New Zealand.  If passed the changes will take away workers' rights,...

A new report commissioned by the TUC on the current nature and future of community engagement  by trades unions in the UK is released today.  The report, written as a result of a collaborative...