Management at Glasgow Life were hit hard by two days of selective action and a one-day strike at the Glasgow Fair last week. The 12-week life of the ballot with the company—previously known as Culture and Sport—has now expired.
Cabin crew at British Airways (BA) last week threw out a "final offer" from bullying boss Willie Walsh by more than three to one.
The campaign to get rank and file candidate Jerry Hicks onto the ballot paper for the general secretary election in the Unite union, is gathering pace.
Police have been placing bags over dozens of recently-installed surveillance cameras in Birmingham following their humiliation at an outraged public meeting in Sparkbrook three weeks ago.
Workers at the Meggitt Aircraft Braking Systems factory in Coventry struck on Friday of last week and Tuesday of this week against their pay being frozen while their bosses get bonuses.
Six hundred GMB union members at the AstraZeneca plant in Macclesfield began a strike ballot over pensions this week. Unite union members are also set to be balloted.
The Unite union has launched legal action against Ford company for "misleading" workers over their pension rights.
Management at the Child Support Agency in Hastings have sacked Sam Buckley, PCS civil service union branch secretary. He has become the fifth union officer at the office to be sacked since November 2007. He was sacked on charges of "incapability".
The leak of over 90,000 US military documents has revealed the horror of the war in Afghanistan.
The biggest region of the Unite union, the London & Eastern Region, last week voted to back the protest at the Tory Party conference in Birmingham on 3 October.
Unite Against Fascism (UAF) and the Muslim Association of Britain have called a national demonstration—"No to racism, No to Islamophobia"—on Saturday 6 November in central London.
