More than 50 strikers picketed Bowland Community High School in Lancashire on Friday of last week as they took action against it becoming an academy.
Teachers in Scotland got a glimpse of the changes their employers would like to force on them this week when a document from the councils’ umbrella organisation Cosla was leaked.
Bus drivers working on National Express at the East Dock Street depot in Dundee walked out unofficially over working conditions on Thursday of last week.
RMT transport union members on the Heathrow Express are set to strike on Friday and Saturday of this week over pay.
Hundreds of people took part in a conference on confronting anti-Muslim racism on Saturday in east London.
Thousands of British Airways (BA) workers are in the process of balloting over a new deal in their two-year dispute.
Pressure is mounting on the government after the PCS civil service workers’ union voted last week to ballot for strikes on 30 June.
Conversations are happening across Tower Hamlets to organise 30 June strikes. "I’ll phone these two schools and visit this one."
Debs Gwynn is the NUT equalities officer for St Helen’s district. She told Socialist Worker that the ballot has galvanised teachers.
The UCU union goes into its Congress this weekend in the midst of several national disputes and on the back of a national strike on 24 March.
Council workers in Southampton launched a campaign of indefinite industrial action this week over pay cuts.
Five police officers in Edmonton, north London, face the sack after smashing their way into a car to arrest the driver.
