PCS union branch secretary Sam Buckley has become the fifth union officer to be sacked from the Child Support Agency in Hastings in two and a half years. He was sacked on charges of "incapability".
Supertram workers in Sheffield have voted to strike over the derecognition of a union rep.
Tour guides at the Tolpuddle Martyrs Museum in Dorset are striking over pay.
A strike by workers at Astrum engineering in Stanhope, County Durham, has won an improved pay offer.
Prison educators at more than 70 prisons and young offender institutions were set to strike on Wednesday of this week over attacks on their terms and conditions.
Activists in the Unite union are winning nominations for Jerry Hicks for the union’s general secretary election.
The jury at the inquest into the 2002 Potters Bar rail crash inquest last week found that unsafe points outside the Hertfordshire station were to blame for the incident in which seven people died.
Trade unions on London Underground have reacted with fury to bosses’ threats to rip up an agreement on job protection unless they call off their industrial action ballots.
Darlington: £22.6 million cuts from its £107 million budgetBirmingham: cutting £75 million and planning to axe up to 2,000 jobs and shut care homesDudley: revised its cuts up from £30 million to £70 millionCroydon: pushing through £1.7 million cuts in staff costs. Planning to cut funding to ten projects for voluntary groups that support disabled and young peopleAndover: announced £30 million worth of cuts to children’s services, which will slash 185 jobsSheffield: announced an immediate £6.5 million cutsJersey:
Drivers and engineers at First Bus in Essex are set to strike on Monday of next week.
