Around 100 civil service workers lobbied the High Court in London last week before the PCS union’s judicial review against attacks on their redundancy payments.
Workers’ Memorial Day – 28 April – is marked with commemorations across the world.
Sacked Jarvis workers are protesting outside Network Rail headquarters this Wednesday – they are in no mood to give up the fight for their jobs.
Sacked Unite union convenor, Abdul Omer, was waiting for the outcome of his disciplinary hearing as Socialist Worker went to press.
A CWU union activist and staff representative has been suspended from his job at a Pell and Bales call centre in east London.
Members of the Prospect civil service workers union at the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) are voting on strikes after the Serco company tabled a 0 percent pay offer.
The employment tribunal into the sacking of nurse and union activist Yunus Bakhsh has heard further evidence from Peter Chapman, the Unison union full-time officer originally assigned to Yunus’s case.
Around 100 workers and students protested at Dundee University on Monday against job cuts.
Lecturers shut Northumberland College when they struck on Thursday of last week.
Teachers at Crest Boys Academy in Neasden, north west London, struck for one day on Wednesday of last week against seven redundancies.
Steelworkers at Corus in Teesside are to be balloted for industrial action over the closure of their plant.
Essex firefighters could strike after bosses pulled a pay deal off the table at the last minute.
