Workers took to St Peter’s Square today in support of the teachers’ strikes and to oppose the government’s new anti-strike

The biggest union branch in Andy Burnham’s Greater Manchester constituency is urging all trade unionists and Labour Party members to vote for Jeremy Corbyn in the leadership race.

NHS workers will stage a four-hour strike on Monday October 13, confirmed Unison, in a row over pay.

In Manchester, hundreds of trade union members packed out Piccadilly Gardens, including petitioning teachers, council staff and librarians, which follows disputes with the government over pay, pensions and cuts

Angry trade union members gathered together for today’s strike in Piccadilly Gardens, claiming that ‘money is there, just in the wrong places’.

The national day of industrial action follows months of disputes between the public sector and the government over working conditions and pay.

The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), is a transatlantic agreement between the US and Europe that detractors say could have a catastrophic impact on the UK economy

Tributes are flooding in from across Manchester after union leader Bob Crow died of a suspected heart attack this morning