Drivers at First Bus in the north west of England took their ninth day of strike action on Monday of this week in a battle against a pay freeze. Hundreds of workers at First’s London depots are currently balloting to join the action.
Workers at a Superdrug warehouse in South Elmsall, Wakefield will go on all-out strike from Wednesday.
A dispute is developing between the Unite union and the owners of minibus firm Dot2dot at Heathrow airport.
Vic Turner, a leader of the Pentonville Five, the dockers’ shop stewards who were jailed in 1972, has spoken of the need for trade unionists to back the call for justice for the Shrewsbury pickets.
More than 300,000 members of the PCS civil service workers’ union will soon be voting in the general secretary election.
Leaders of the PCS civil service workers’ union in the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) were to hold an emergency meeting this week to discuss attacks on their members.
South Yorkshire firefighters in the FBU union have called another wave of strike action across four days this week. The firefighters are set to take rolling strike action from Friday to Monday.
The inquest into the death in police custody of Mikey Powell opens on Wednesday of this week. It is expected to last for six weeks.
Families of those who have died in police, prison and psychiatric custody held their annual remembrance procession last Saturday. The families met at Trafalgar Square and then marched down Whitehall to hold a vigil outside Downing Street.
Members of the Unite and PCS unions at the IT services giant Fujitsu are gearing up for a national fight over jobs, pay and pensions after voting overwhelmingly to take strike action over the issues.
The all-out indefinite strike by Leeds refuse workers, which is now into its ninth week, is putting Leeds city council bosses under increasing pressure.
Around 100 striking firefighters, bus drivers and postal workers came together at a rally last Saturday on the Central Fire Station picket line. It had been built by their CWU, FBU and Unite unions at four days notice.
