BT workers were starting an industrial action ballot this week and are on the verge of their first national strike for 23 years.
Maintenance workers at the Tube Lines company on London Underground plan to strike for 48 hours from Wednesday of next week over jobs, pay and working conditions.
Two survivors of the Mavi Marmara aid ship to Gaza led a demonstration of over 500 in Manchester last Sunday.
Journalists at the left wing daily newspaper the Morning Star were set to strike this Sunday over pay.
Corus steel worker Thomas Standerline was crushed and killed by an overhead crane, the Unite union has revealed.
Workers were set to protest outside an Aberdeen council meeting this week over delays to pay rises owed to over 6,500 workers.
Derby council workers left their cars at home last week to show the impact that not using their own cars for work would have.
Strikes by workers at Culture and Sport Glasgow (CSG) will hit a major swimming event in the city this weekend.
Bosses at the Mirror, Sunday Mirror and the People have announced over 200 job losses.
Judgement is expected soon in the PCS union’s legal challenge against the government. It is about changes to civil service workers’ redundancy scheme.
Some 400 people packed into Stratford town hall in east London last week for the first Labour-organised leaderships hustings—the youth hustings.
Scotland’s largest teachers’ union, the EIS, voted to ballot its members for strikes at its conference last week.
