Prison officers face strike ban
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Jack Straw today said the government would reinstate the prison officer strike ban, which Labour repealed in 2005
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Prisoners released under the Good Friday Agreement could be considered for membership of the police service, the DUP says.
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The Prison Service should consider stopping sick pay for its staff in a bid to improve "unacceptable" levels of absenteeism, MPs have said.
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JOHANNESBURG, June 1 -- Public-sector workers staged a nationwide strike Friday, closing down schools, forcing hospital patients to return home and leaving only minimum staffing in prisons.
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Government accused of attempting to ban 10,000 officers from marching through Westminster
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Prison workers soon might force feed a former university professor who has been on a hunger strike for six weeks to protest his imprisonment for refusing to testify about Palestinian charities, his lawyer said Wednesday.
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Three strikes planned on the Tube next month are to go ahead, union leaders announce.
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Leaked study following boy's death says staff provoke young inmates so they can use force.
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Morale slides, says union, in wake of prison time for two agents who used deadly force.
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Â· Warders ignore ruling that strike is illegalÂ· More public sector pay rows predicted
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Prison officers are struggling to control a group of al-Qaeda terrorists who are clashing with other serious offenders in one of Britain's high-security jails
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A major clash is expected between the government and a civil servantsâ union Monday when the union pledges to launch a general strike as scheduled, despite government crackdowns on its move to demand full labor rights.
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Prison officers in England and Wales are due to report for work as normal after their national strike was ended.
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Civil servants and teachers are the latest groups to go on strike,  as protests against public sector job cuts continue.
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Striking health workers aim for Labour support in their bid to block the sell-off of the NHS supply agency.
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Bugging carried out 'nationwide' The furore over police bugging operations conducted in prison visiting rooms has widened somewhat, with allegations that significant numbers of conversations between prisoners and their legal representatives may have been taped. Angry lawyers are speculating that this could invalidate an unknown number of convictions and see dangerous criminals set free.â¦
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A UK-wide civil servants' strike over job cuts is expected to hit public services across the country.