British Airways cabin crew have voted by a fantastic 78.5 percent for strikes on a 75 percent turnout.
Up to 1,000 council workers held a mass meeting and march against cuts in Southampton yesterday (Thursday).
Around 3,000 members of the PCS civil service workers’ union are striking today (Thursday) and tomorrow over attacks on their working conditions. Their action is severely hitting seven "contact centres"—former benefit processing centres—in Glasgow, Newport (Gwent), Norwich, Sheffield, Bristol, Makerfield and Manchester—that Jobcentre Plus management want to turn into call centres.
"Sack the bankers, not the workers." That chant rang out through Wood Green Shopping City, in Haringey, north London, on Monday as 1,000 teachers, council workers and anti-cuts campaigners marched on Haringey Civic Centre.
More than 1,000 students are marching on parliament in London, as students protest over Education Maintenance Allowance (EMA) in towns and cities across the country.
The legal right to strike received another blow today as a High Court judge granted an injunction on technicalities to halt a 48-hour strike by Docklands Light Railway (DLR) workers in London.
Workers at the Heinz factory in Wigan voted to accept an improved pay offer from management this week.
Almost 3,000 call centre workers were to strike on Thursday and Friday of this week over attacks on their working conditions.
Around 300 people protested outside local libraries in Bury on Monday of last week against council plans to make cuts to the service. The council plans to shut a library in Unsworth, Whitefield.
Mirfat Badallah is calling for solidarity to stop the Home Office deporting her to Yemen. She has lived in Birmingham for 11 years and has a British husband and British born children.
Oil and petrol tanker drivers are preparing to ballot for industrial action next month against attacks on their terms and conditions.
Don’t make cuts, join the fightback. That was the message delivered to Labour councillors at a 200-strong meeting in Camden last Monday night.
