Around 3,000 members of the PCS civil service workers’ union in seven call centres are to strike for two days next week after the collapse of intensive talks with Jobcentre Plus management. This is the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP).
Predictions of famine and food riots are growing as the price of wheat spirals to its highest ever level.
Journalists at local newspapers across Britain are battling against a pay freeze and job cuts by their profiteering employer.
University and college lecturers across Britain could be out on strike on 23 March—budget day.
The Times Higher Educational Supplement (THES) ran an article last week highlighting what it called "splits" in the UCU lecturers’ union.
Teachers at Rawmarsh Community School in Rotherham struck for three days last week over job cuts. They were set to strike again on Wednesday and Thursday of this week.
OVER 100,000 teachers in the NUT union are this week being asked by the union if they are willing to strike to defend their pensions.
An Essex firefighter has been sacked on the spot—just for writing a letter to a local councillor about cuts to the fire service.
Some 800 fire and rescue staff in London began a ballot for strike last week.
Around 200 workers at GlaxoSmithKline in Coleford, Gloucestershire are to be balloted for strikes over pay.
Members of the Prospect, Unite and Unison unions at National Grid have voted massively in favour of industrial action after rejecting a below-inflation pay offer.
The bus workers Unite union has called a national work stoppage for all members on 1 March to highlight the long hours drivers work.
