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With only days to go before Dover decides, Unite says there is a viable option

Unite, the UKâ€™s largest union, is backing a plan which has proposed that Port of Dover becomes a "People's Port" run by the community of Dover.

BA shamefully stops pay of pregnant cabin crew

BA cabin crew, that become pregnant and live too far to travel to Heathrow or Gatwick to perform ground duties, will now be forced to take unpaid leave by the airline.

JAPANESE CRISIS: AIRLINES WARN TRAVELLERS TO EXPECT DELAYS AND CANCELLATIONS, BRITISH AIRWAYS READY TO HOLD UNION PEACE TALKS, JET2.COM HELPING FORMER RAF FLIERS TO WORK ON CIVILIAN AIRCRAFT ALL FEATURE IN TODAY’S BREAKING NEWS

JAPANESE CRISIS: Airlines warn travellers to expect delays and cancellations, British Airways ready to hold union peace talks, Jet2.com helping former RAF fliers to work on civilian...

JAPANESE CRISIS: AIRLINES WARN TRAVELLERS TO EXPECT DELAYS AND CANCELLATIONS, BRITISH AIRWAYS READY TO HOLD UNION PEACE TALKS, JET2.COM HELPING FORMER RAF FLIERS TO WORK ON CIVILIAN AIRCRAFT ALL FEATURE IN TODAY’S BREAKING NEWS

JAPANESE CRISIS: Airlines warn travellers to expect delays and cancellations, British Airways ready to hold union peace talks, Jet2.com helping former RAF fliers to work on civilian...

Hutton’s pay formula would make private sector workers millionaires

If the heads of the big outsourcing companies were on just 20 times more than the lowest paid, as expected to be proposed as part of a review of public sector pay, all staff in at least one...

Lib Dems are ‘abandoning centre-ground’

The Lib Dems risk ending up on the wrong side of the basic divide in British politics, TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber today (Saturday) told a fringe meeting at the Lib Dem Spring conference in Sheffield.

Nearly 600 coaches from Aberaeron to York booked for TUC march on 26 March

With two weeks to go until the TUC March for the Alternative in central London (Saturday 26 March), almost 600 coaches from all across the UK have been chartered and registered with the TUC to bring people to London for the big march and rally in Hyde Park.

Overwhelming backing for strike action at Liverpool Hope University in jobs row

Lecturers who are members of UCU at Liverpool Hope University have today voted overwhelmingly in favour of strike action in their ongoing row with the institution over job losses and how the institution is responding to potential cuts in funding.

UCU slams University of Stirling plans for redundancies in institute of aquaculture

UCU Scotland has questioned the wisdom of the University of Stirling's decision to effectively shut the only aquaculture institute in Scotland. The university wants to get rid of up to 36 staff by June 2011, which will leave its institute of aquaculture with a skeleton staff and facing likely closure. UCU argues that the institute meets Scottish government priorities through projects that range from feeding the rural poor in Africa to supporting the multibillion dollar commercial fish farming sector.

Campaign update: 11 March 2011