Unite’s executive have voted to name a day for strikes in April if no other union does. The union’s members in the health service have rejected the government’s offer and its members in the civil service are being balloted until 18 April. Unison health will ballot its members on the offer in April. GMB has announced a consultation of members on the deal. Ballot dates have not been announced yet. The British Medical Association and the Royal College of Nursing have already returned big votes to reject the deal. EIS Scottish teachers’ union members are battling to get strikes put back on after the union’s leadership called off action on 28 March.
Oil tanker drivers in the Unite union have voted to strike over their working conditions at five major distribution firms.
Over 80 people rallied in solidarity with 149 locked out workers at Mayr Melnhof Packaging (MMP) in Bootle near Liverpool on Thursday of last week.
Workers at Mahle Engine Systems in Kilmarnock will strike for three days a week to defend jobs, according to the Unite union.
Unite union members are calling on the union’s general secretary, Len McCluskey, to drop an investigation into Unite activist Ray Smith.
Around 30 Unite union members joined a dawn leafleting protest outside the new Southern General Hospital site in Glasgow on Friday of last week.
The RMT rail union is supporting the Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition (TUSC) in the 3 May elections, its general secretary has announced.
Around 100 local anti-fascists marched through Bolton town centre on Saturday of last week in response to a racist protest by the North West Infidels (NWI).
Around 70 people joined an "unofficial gentrification tour" of the Carpenters Estate in the shadow of the Olympic site last Saturday.
Christopher Alder memorial protest A memorial protest for Christopher Alder, who died in Kingston upon Hull police station in 1998, was set to take place on Sunday.
It wasn’t just the Tories’ rich chums who pocketed big sums from George Osborne’s tax cuts last week—the cabinet got some extra cash too.
A leaked document reveals that the Tory health bill puts patients’ lives at risk.
