The coldest winter in many years. Snow on the streets of the nation’s biggest city. The sanitation employees’ union embarks on a go slow. New York in December 2010? Actually, London in the winter of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Public sector pay has become a thorn in the government’s side – and could result in the biggest strike action seen since the 1970s ...

Teaching Fellow in Early Modern Literature, Shakespeare, and Inclusive Pedagogy, Royal Holloway, University of London From 1978 to 79, public sector workers in the UK engaged in nationally coordinated ...

Christopher Massey is a Labour Party Councillor for Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council. Jim Callaghan’s Labour administration never recovered from the crisis of winter 1978-79. He lost the general ...

Public sector pay has become a thorn in the government’s side – and could result in the biggest strike action seen since the 1970s. Millions of workers are set to vote over whether to take strike ...