Bus workers in South Yorkshire struck on Friday of last week and Monday of this week. Members of the Unite union at Stagecoach’s Barnsley and Rawmarsh depots walked out over pay.
Cleaners working on the London Overground have won concessions from the John Laing agency after protesting against ambush raids by immigration officials.
The RMT union is balloting members for strikes at the West of Scotland signalling centre and at Wightlink’s ferries between Portsmouth and the Isle of Wight.
Hundreds of TV licensing workers struck for a third time on Friday, in a dispute between the Communication Workers Union (CWU) and Capita.
Protesters outside the Egyptian embassy in London on Monday evening in solidarity with Egyptian activists under attack in Tahrir Square. Organisers are calling for a big mobilisation tomorrow. Trade unionists and students bring your banners.
An international appeal for solidarity has gone out today as tens of thousands of Egyptians face brutal repression in the streets of Cairo. Riot police and army forces attacked protestors after mass demonstrations calling for an end to the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces' military rule.
Down with military rule, down with Mubarak's rule! Revolutionaries have returned to Tahrir Square. Once again it is filled with young people who are impatient to bring the people who killed revolutionaries in January to justice, and to see freedom and social justice realised. The military courts have stolen years upon years of their lives. They have lost their eyes to sniper fire on the orders of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces and their henchmen in the Ministry of the Interior. They have been slandered by the subservient media, which has moved overnight from one master to a new one.
Ten protesters were found guilty of aggravated trespass today, Thursday, after taking part in an occupation of luxury department store Fortnum and Mason in London.
The war in the construction industry opened up new fronts today, Wednesday.
Last week this column looked at the trade union bureaucracy, those officials who rely on the union for their jobs. This week, we focus on ordinary union members—the "rank and file".
Teachers at Prince Henry’s Grammar School in Otley, Leeds, took part in a lively strike on Thursday of last week.
Teachers at a Salford academy school have voted to strike against 13 compulsory redundancies.
