Some 60 members of the Community union at BRC Manufacturing in Barnsley were set to strike on Tuesday and Wednesday of this week in pursuit of a pay claim.
Oxfordshire youth workers are planning to strike again against cuts on Friday of next week. This comes after a successful strike on Tuesday of last week.
Protests are growing across the construction industry against plans to cut electricians’ pay by up to 35 percent.
Construction workers are seething with resentment over the blacklisting of trade union activists.
Council workers in Barnet, north London, are to strike against privatisation on 13 September.
Council workers in Plymouth have called for a ballot over the derecognition of their Unison union branch.
Ballot papers have gone out to workers at Shropshire council as they begin their vote for strikes.
Journalists on all out strike in South Yorkshire have presented a petition of over 3,000 signatures supporting their cause to management.
Journalists at Newsquest North West have voted unanimously to begin a strike ballot against proposed redundancies.
The prospect of a strike by hundreds of thousands of health workers took a step forwards last week.
Around 500 people marched through Glasgow’s East End last Saturday to save the Accord daycare centre. The centre currently caters for 120 children and adults with learning difficulties. But Glasgow City Council plans to close it down to build a car park for the Commonwealth Games in 2014.
The Unison union has begun balloting all its Northern Ireland members in health and education for strikes against the cuts.
