David Lynch, Contemporary Cinema and Social Class (2000). Film review – Tom Jennings Tom Jennings’ essay on David Lynch, recent cinema and film criticism.
Workers strike and clash with police in Swaziland The last week of textile workers' strikes has seen Swaziland's most intense wave of labour militancy in a decade.
Further walkouts by bank workers in Greece Bank workers are on strike for the second time in two months as part of the continuing campaign against pension reform.
700 workers out in first ever Maritime and Coastguard Agency strike 700 Maritime and Coastguard Agency workers were out on strike today, the first in the agency's history.
500 Zambian miners fired after violence during strike The workers walked out on Monday in protest at low pay and dangerous working conditions in the…
Mexico City metro workers in work stoppages Workers in the Sistema de Transporte Colectivo (STC) in Mexico City - the underground train service - have announced a series of 10 and 15 minute service stoppages in response to government stalling on a list of demands submitted way back in November.
Vauxhall staff wildcat in Ellesmere Port Around five hundred staff at the Vauxhall plant in Ellesmere Port, Cheshire, are reported to have walked out yesterday, over rumours that the company plan to axe 460 jobs.
Strikes spread across Zimbabwe Teachers, nurses, doctors and civil servants have been taking industrial action since last Wednesday calling for an immediate review of salaries…
Strike threat resurfaces at Royal Mail Hot on the heels of the wildcat strikes over pay in 2007, Royal Mail faces the threat of a new round of industrial action.
Vallejo, California: Unions help city with lay-offs The city of Vallejo in the San Francisco Bay Area may be the first city in California history to declare bankruptcy. However several unions are helping the city to cut jobs in an effort to ward off bankruptcy.
TV Times - 1 - 7 March 2008 This week's pick is a documentary which attempts to highlight the disenfranchisment felt by the UK's white working class.
Mexico: violence at university workers strike in Mexico City A tense strike and occupation at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (UAM) in the southeast of…
