Lend a hand: Starbucks engaging in religious persecution of IWW barista For the second time in as many months, Starbucks management has kicked Starbucks Workers Union member Suley Ayala out of the workplace for wearing her modest Pentagram necklace.
EZ Supply workers in Queens vote to unionise with the IWW The Industrial Workers of the World chalked up another victory in an National Labour Relations Board election on Thursday, 9 February, at E-Z Supply Corp., a wholesale distributor of restaurant supplies and foodstuffs, located in Queens, New York.
Ontario: Unofficial strike could begin Monday Public sector workers are set to walk off the job as early as Monday night, an illegal strike that would cripple government services in the province. The action is in response to a Bill which would break up workers' pension schemes.
Transportation workers resist global attack The latest attack on workers' rights around the world is now hitting the people who make public transportation possible in many of the world's metro areas.
Police called to Belfast posties' picket line On the eighth day of the Belfast postal workers' wildcat strike police have been called to picket lines which were blocking the entries to the Mallusk sorting office.
Planka - freeriding in Sweden and Finland In Stockholm, Gothenburg and Helsinki, commuters are taking the initiative in the fight for decent, free public transportation.
Mining communities, unemployment and incapacity benefits As the government prepares to slash incapacity benefits, Rob Ray looks at a report brought out last year which is amongst the starkest examples of how incapacity has been used in recent years to hide much of the country's unemployment problems.
Labour's cruellest cut - Incapacity benefits in detail Iain Mackay explores the government's proposals to cut benefits for the disabled - claimed by nearly…
Tube workers vote for further strikes Following a vote 6-1 in favour of industrial action on Thursday, the RMT union has announced two 24 hour strikes, on the 21st February and 2nd March.
NHS failing asylum seekers New research shows the the growing inequalities in healthcare in the UK that the NHS is unable to tackle.
Cops and ravers One raver, Adam, talks candidly about his personal experiences of the low-level police campaign that began against the scene as he got involved in it in Suffolk last year
WiMaximum profit - the wireless revolution and big business Rob Ray investigates how a big-business ‘wireless revolution’ is set to retard urban communications…