Firefighters in Essex struck for three hours on Saturday night last week. The FBU members are fighting job cuts in the county.
Activists have been building three big demos in defiance of planned A&E and hospital closures across London. This is in the run up to the national TUC demonstration on 20 October.
Rail workers’ West Coast ballot The RMT transport union is preparing to ballot its members on the West Coast intercity rail route over threatened cuts. The union expects First Group to take over the route from Virgin trains. It fears that this could result in 800 job losses as the firm restructures the service.
Trade unions, transport campaigners and passenger groups are holding a day of action today, Tuesday, to protest against increases in rail fares.
A strike by bus workers in the Unite union shut down the Abellio garage in Byfleet, Surrey, on Monday morning.
In a long running battle over conditions, 6,000 PCS members in Job Centre Plus call centres struck on Monday. Pickets were defiant across the country, despite dirty tactics by Department for Work and Pensions management.
Anti-Nazis outnumbered the fascist National Front (NF) in Sunderland last Saturday as it tried to hold a demonstration in the city.
Bus workers in the Unite union at Abellio Surrey are set to strike tomorrow, Monday 13 August, against a planned pay freeze for this year.
A key figure in the shadowy network of strategists behind the racist English Defence League (EDL) has been sacked by Leeds City Council.
Cleaners on the London Underground walked out today, Thursday, for the start of a two-day strike over pay and conditions.
Traffic wardens in Camden were in confident mood today, Thursday, for the start of their second strike over pay.
Travellers at Dale Farm in Basildon, Essex, face a renewed threat of eviction. The council forced the Travellers from their land in October last year. Dozens are now living on a nearby road.
