Two new TV shows highlight the growing importance of nurses at a moment when the Obama administration is preparing to reform the nation's health care system, but the shows also run the risk of further marginalizing the often overlooked contributions

The Stringer v HMRC judgment will finally be given tomorrow in the House of Lords, clearing up whether staff can accrue holiday pay while they are on sick leave.

Lloyds Banking Group will close all 164 of its Cheltenham & Gloucester (C&G) bank branches, cutting thousands of jobs across the UK by the end of the year.

London's tube strike is still scheduled to go ahead this evening (Tuesday) unless last-minute talks involving conciliation service Acas manage to avert industrial action.

Up to 50 jobs have been cut at a Mercedes-Benz Formula 1 engine plant because of rule changes to the motor sport.

Two McDonald's employees who claimed they were forbidden from speaking Polish at work have lost their claim for racial discrimination.

More than 150 lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender youth poured into theCommunity Church of Boston May 20 for an historic event in both MassachusettsHIV organizing and youth leadership.

The cops were surprised when, at the end of the solidarity march to supportStella D'oro workers, protesters slipped past their barricades andcharged the plant gates.

Domestic workers are excluded from the protection of almost every majorlabor law.

Only eight hours after the announcement of the California Supreme Court'sprejudice-based ruling supporting Prop 8 on May 26, 5,000 disappointed, sad,but mostly angry San Diegans stormed out of Balboa Park onto Sixth Avenue andchanted their way to the heart of

Several hundred people crowded around the building housing the CaliforniaSupreme Court on the morning of May 26. The six-to-one decision upholding Prop8, the ban on same-sex marriage passed by California voters in November,immediately set the crowd in motion.

The home foreclosure crisis in the United States continues to grow in scope andsize. Workers are losing their homes at record rates as mass layoffs and plantclosings affect millions. A new twist has been added to the foreclosure disaster, one

Hundreds of people took to the streets of Detroit on May 21 demanding justice for RobertMitchell, 16, who died after being tased by Warren police. Mitchell, who hadfled from a police stop in Warren, was chased into Detroit, where he

A militant demonstration on May 29 outside Bank of America in downtown Detroitstopped the scheduled June 1 eviction of Michelle Hart and her elderly mother.Countrywide Home Loans, which is owned by Bank of America, refused to modifyHart's subprime, adjustable rate

Gathering under a banner stating, "Another World is UrgentlyNeeded—But We Must Fight for It!" more than 200 community, labor,youth, immigrant rights, housing, health care and social justice activists meton May 31 in Dag Hammarskjöld Plaza for the People's EconomicSummit.

An ongoing struggle between Nigeria's federal government and the peopleof the Niger Delta has reached a new level in the aftermath of the May 13military operation in the West African oil-producing region. The root of the current repression in Nigeria

MOMENTS of transition are sensitive times. The transition from an Mbeki to a Zuma government might have been expected to be pretty uneventful as it involved no change of party, but in many ways there is actually a new party,

IT's been less obvious than the spat between the African National Congress and the Congress of South African Trade Unions, but another important fire has broken out for the Zuma government to deal with, and this is the decision by

The march will coincide with one of the most important SABC board meetings to date, as the public broadcaster's chairwoman, Kanyi Mkonza, is expected to face a motion of no confidence proposed by her fellow board members.

Vodafone Ghana (VF) says it has created more than 7,000 jobs within its sales and distribution system since August last year and projected a rise in its customer base to five million by the end of the next fiscal year.