Up to 500 London firefighters held a noisy vuvuzela trumpet protest outside a fire authority bosses’ meeting on Thursday of last week.
"Corporate greed is terrorism." That was the message that striking Vale Inco miners took to a 25,000-strong march against the G20 in Toronto, Canada, last Saturday.
The G8 and G20 summits in Toronto had to cover up splits between governments over economic policy.
British Airways is recruiting a new workforce so it can get rid of existing cabin crew.
The 48 hour strike by maintenance workers on the London Underground (LU) last week was fantastic. Staff working for Tube Lines carrying out maintenance work on the Jubilee, Piccadilly and Northern lines were striking over jobs, working conditions, pay and parity with Metronet LU workers.
BP took Allen "Rookie" Kruse’s livelihood. In response he took his own life. His suicide last week is just one tragic example of the devastation that BP continues to cause.
Lecturers at Manchester College were set to strike on Wednesday of this week. They are battling bosses who want to rip up their terms and conditions and have already derecognised their UCU union.
Workers at Cadbury College, Birmingham, struck on Tuesday this week and on Thursday last week over restructuring plans. Workers in the NUT, ATL and NASUWT unions took united action.
The lecturers’ UCU union is set to hold national strike ballots of members over jobs and pay.
Teachers at Lister Community school, east London, began a three-day strike this week. They also struck on Wednesday and Thursday of last week over plans to sack three teachers and increase the workload.
The left within the NUT union met at a Campaign Teacher conference last Saturday.
Refuse workers in Sandwell, West Midlands, have begun an unofficial work-to-rule. They are set to lose up to £8,000 a year under a "single status" pay deal.
