Activists in the postal workers’ CWU union are angry after an Employment Tribunal ruled against four union reps from the Burslem delivery office in Stoke-on-Trent last week.
Kirklees Council was forced this week to withdraw proposals it tried to impose on 1 September—because of threatened strike action by Unison and Unite union members.
A planned strike by bus workers at Stagecoach Merseyside was called off on Friday of last week, after management offered a new pay deal.
Delegates to the UCU union’s further education special pay conference last Saturday voted overwhelmingly to reject a 0.2 percent pay offer and ballot for strikes.
Workers at drugs multinational Astra Zeneca’s Macclesfield site took a fourth day of strike action on Thursday of last week.
Around 400 protested in Dundee in a protest called by Dundee Trades Council.
Workers at the Tunnock’s biscuit factory rejected an offer of a 2 percent pay deal on Monday of this week.
London firefighters are continuing to ballot for strikes over bosses’ plans to sack them all in order to impose new contracts.
All 1.5 million Unite union members will next week receive election statements from the four candidates for the general secretary election.
Firefighters in South Wales have called off planned industrial action after coming to a deal with bosses over shifts and jobs.
Nicky Marcus, a Bassa union rep at British Airways, faces a disciplinary hearing this week at which she may be sacked from her job.
Charles Atangana, a member of the journalists’ NUJ union fighting deportation to Cameroon, will appear before a judge at the High Court on the Strand in London on Thursday of this week.
