This Association / school NUT group notes the 73 percent vote for further national strike action on pensions in the NUT survey. This follows our overwhelming and still valid ballot for strikes to defend our pensions last year.
The RMT union has called more action in its dispute at the Heathrow Express airport shuttle service. This follows two recent 24-hour strikes.
Tanker drivers in the Unite union are being balloted for strike action. Voting is set to close on Monday next week.
A manager at private firm NSL has been pressuring traffic wardens into writing parking tickets to meet quotas, Socialist Worker can reveal.
Traffic wardens in Ealing, west London, struck on Thursday and Friday of last week to demand the reinstatement of sacked rep Parveen Bhardwaj. The Unite union members picketed offices on Uxbridge Road, waving union flags and blowing horns. They were set to walk out again this Thursday and Friday.
Workers have now been locked out of the Mayr Melnhof Packaging (MMP) factory in Bootle, Merseyside, for over three weeks now.
Over 100 rank and file electricians held a national meeting in Manchester last Saturday.
A ruling by the Employment Appeal Tribunal has opened the way for workers to bring unfair dismissal cases automatically when their work location changes as a result of a change in employer.
Three Jewish children and a rabbi were murdered on Monday in what appears to be the worst antisemitic attack in France in recent history.
Anti-Nazi demonstrations took place across Greece on Saturday of last week.
Alfie Meadows and four other students will stand trial on Monday next week in Kingston Crown Court on charges of violent disorder.
Council leaders met up for the Local Government Chronicle awards at the Grosvenor House Hotel in central London on Wednesday of last week.
