Around 40 workers protested outside Coryton oil refinery in Essex on Monday and Tuesday of this week against the planned closure of the plant—which will see 850 workers sacked.
The GMB union threw its weight into the fight against blacklisting at its congress this week.
There’s no austerity for the bosses of Britain’s biggest companies. Their pay packets have grown to a typical figure of 139 times average employee earnings, according to a new survey.
Around 60 parents, staff, pupils and local people attended a loud and lively lobby of a governors’ meeting at Worthing High School in West Sussex last week.
A flying picket of women admin workers in Kirklees brought refuse workers out on unofficial strike on Tuesday of this week.
Cutbacks in the number of health and safety inspectors and inspections lie behind the outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease in Edinburgh.
Lecturers in the UCU union at Salford University have voted overwhelmingly for strikes to defend jobs.
Teachers in the NASUWT union at Bacup and Rawtenstall Grammar School in Lancashire are balloting for industrial action against plans to turn the school into an academy.
Teachers were set to meet in Liverpool this Saturday to discuss the fight to defend their pensions.
Lecturers in the UCU union have voted overwhelmingly to continue the fight to defend their pensions.
Staff at Merseyside and Halton job centres began a three-day strike yesterday, Wednesday.
NHS workers in the Unite and Unison unions at Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health Trust struck today, Wednesday.
