Some 35 GMB union members from Sheffield Recycling Centres began an all-out strike last Saturday.
Over 1,000 firefighters in Essex were set to strike for eight hours on Thursday of this week.
Around 400 people gathered at the Reclaiming Our NHS conference last Saturday in London. The conference was jointly organised by the NHS Support Federation and Keep Our NHS Public.
There was little debate on pensions at the Unison national conference in Bournemouth last week. The union’s executive did its best to try to move on from the issue.
The inquest into the death of Sean Rigg has heard how staff at the hostel he was staying in made five 999 calls to police.
The manslaughter trial of a police officer accused of killing Ian Tomlinson has heard a witness describe Tomlinson as "not posing any threat to the officers".
Around 100 people protested in Purfleet, Essex, on Monday of this week as part of the fight to save the threatened Coryton oil refinery.
Hundreds of bus workers took to picket lines across London last week as they struck to demand an Olympic bonus. The Unite union members’ walkout last Friday was the first London-wide action on the buses since 1982.
Three London hospitals could close as an NHS trust has been formally warned that it could be declared bust within weeks.
Theresa May in contempt rap Theresa May has been found guilty of contempt of court—only the second time in history this has happened to a sitting home secretary.
The second policy conference of the Unite union began in Brighton on Monday of this week.
Over 6,000 PCS members in 32 call centres are voting in a consultative ballot on industrial action over working conditions. It closes on 11July.
