Lord Hutton’s pension review signals an assault on the living standards of five million workers.
The battle to defend pensions at the BBC is at a crucial stage.
Lord John Hutton was Labour defence minister in the last government.
London firefighters were set to find out the result of their strike ballot on Thursday of this week—with a massive yes vote expected.
Dozens of bus drivers at CT Plus in Hackney, east London, picketed their depot on Friday of last week over pay.
The PCS union, which represents the majority of union members in the civil service, has rejected a new government offer on changing the Civil Service Compensation Scheme.
Leaders of the PCS union in the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), who represent 90,000 union members, last week rejected a below-inflation pay offer. They also rejected another below-inflation offer from bosses in the old Child Support Agency—which is now known as CMEC.
UCU lecturers’ union branches have responded impressively to the call for a special conference in higher education to organise for action in defence of jobs, pay and pensions.
There was standing room only at a meeting in Hastings last week as pensioners, trades unionists, students and local councillors filled the hall at the trades council’s meeting against public sector cuts.
Workers at Plymouth bed manufacturer Vi-Spring are striking to defend their shop steward .
The lecturers’ UCU union’s further education Committee has backed the decision by delegates at a recent special pay conference to ballot as soon as possible over our rejection of the 0.2 percent pay offer from the Association of Colleges.
Steve Acheson, a blacklisted electrician, won an Employment Tribunal last week in Manchester against the Beaver Management Services agency.
