Voting begins this week in the election for the PCS union’s national executive committee.
Elections continue for the Unison union’s service group executives.
Grants for Wales’s poorest students are to be cut by around 15 percent.
Striking teachers in Rotherham were in determined mood after closing their secondary school during a 24-hour walkout over job losses on Tuesday.
NUT union members across Nottingham struck on Tuesday of this week against council plans to change their term structure.
Teachers at Downhills Primary School in Haringey, north London, are balloting for strikes against government plans to force the school to become an academy.
Teachers and support staff are set to strike at Central Foundation Girl’s School in east London on Wednesday of next week.
Lecturers at London Metropolitan University were set to meet on Wednesday of this week to discuss an ongoing dispute over redundancies.
The Unite union was set to decide on Wednesday of this week whether to call almost 2,000 petrol tanker drivers out on strike—or to accept a secret offer from six major haulage companies.
The business press gloated last week at Unilever bosses’ "victory" as most workers at the firm accepted the end of their final salary pension scheme.
Workers at BMW’s Mini plant in Oxford could be set to strike for the first time in 28 years after overwhelmingly rejecting a pay offer.
Workers sacked by Meyr Melnhof Packaging in Bootle, near Liverpool, have been protesting outside the company’s clients and their shareholders.
