Alison and Ian join 35,000 other trade unionists protesting against the governments economic policies during the Tory Party conference in Manchester on Sunday......or would that be 34,998?
It is revealed today in The Independent that the TUCs Brendan Barber held secret talks with George Osborne, Danny Alexander, Francis Maude and Oliver Letwin on trying to find a way to avoid the national public services strike scheduled for November.
