About 25 warehouse staff and drivers at DBC Foodservices in Dundonald, Ayrshire, have struck over an increase in working hours.
David Cameron has been forced into a humiliating climbdown over his plans to "reform" the NHS.
Postal workers in Islington, north London, are celebrating after an unofficial walkout last week forced Royal Mail to reinstate a suspended colleague.
Lecturers at Barnsley College were set to strike on Friday of this week to stop compulsory redundancies. The UCU union members voted for strikes by 87 percent.
Unite representatives gathered this week in Liverpool to discuss changes to the union’s Rule Book. Many of the amendments submitted marked a step forward in the process of becoming a more inclusive, activist union.
Lecturers in older universities are set to vote on industrial action to stop attacks on their pensions.
UCU union members in further education colleges are to ballot on a proposed deal on the annual fees for compulsory membership of the Institute for Learning.
Delegates to the AGM of the EIS, Scotland’s largest teaching trade union, gathered in Perth last week.
The annual NUT union’s young teachers’ conference was the biggest yet—its capacity of 150 was oversubscribed. It showed unmistakeable signs that the union is renewing itself through its pensions campaign, with many newly qualified teachers already school union reps.
Teachers at the Islington Arts and Media School in north London were set to strike on Wednesday of this week. They are fighting compulsory redundancies. The NUT union members struck against the cuts last month. They backed strikes by 90 percent in a ballot.
At this year’s UCU union congress Sally Hunt, the general secretary, launched her bid for re-election.
SOCIALIST WORKER welcomes the unanimous decision of the United Left National Coordinating Committee (NCC) not to exclude SWP members from the United Left (UL) group in the Unite union.
