Seventeen years after losing her council job due to needing endometriosis surgery, Michelle Dewar’s campaign for paid menstrual leave gained 50,000 signatures in a week, reports ELIZABETH SHORT

Government urged ‘to tackle the root causes’ of the NHS crisis and improve ‘social care services’

All major Las Vegas Strip casinos are now unionised in a historic victory for labour, says RIO YAMAT

Laughter has always been how workers cope and fight back, but university-educated union reps now scold members for calling bosses ‘money-grabbing bastards’ and label everyday humour ‘problematic’ — this needs to be stopped, writes MARK JONES  

Mr Smalls and 13 other Freedom Flotilla Coalition activists who tried to break Israel’s illegal blockade of Gaza aboard the Handala ship remain in detention and on hunger strike

 Birmingham’s striking bin workers and supporters bring waste sites to a standstill