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In the wake of a renewed drive to expand Private Finance Initiatives (PFI) across the public sector, it has been revealed that earlier projects have been draining cash at the expense of Trust-owned properties.

Former TGWU leader Sir Bill Morris has called for trade union influence over the Labour Party to be…

Teachers have threatened to go on strike unless the Scottish Executive does more to cut class sizes, it emerged last night.

Author's note; this is an expanded version of a talk given to the Brecon Political and Theological…

The Joseph Rowntree foundation has recently produced a study report that shows that persistent poverty (poverty is defined as a family income below 60% of the median income) in Britain is on the increase.

The fundamental flaws in the parliamentarian approach.

A short article from 'the Whinger' p. petard on proposed Housing Benefit reform. www.geocities.com/doodlepaul

A short article from 'the Whinger' P. Petard on the minimum wage.

Following reports that the mentally ill are being abandoned, Robert Allen interviewed Jim, a worker in the mental health system.

With postal workers already angry at the Royal Mail's decision to impose a 2.9% pay offer, two small wildcat strikes have broken out in Oxford and Wolverhampton

Another 1,000 jobs are to be axed in the health service, this time from the relatively new NHS Direct, bringing the total job losses across the sector to 13,000 over the past few months.

Workers from the Ryton plant in Coventry, due to be closed by Peugeot, demonstrated outside a dealership in Birmingham alongside members of West…