Jobcentre Plus worker Mark Anthony France has been sacked for organising a petition calling on his local MP Julie Kirkbride, who has been mired in the expenses scandal, to stand down.
Baggage handlers at Gatwick, Stansted and Manchester airports last week voted to strike after their employer, Swissport, reneged on a two-year pay deal.
Lecturers at Manchester College struck again on Thursday of last week in their campaign to reverse course cuts and redundancies.
Workers at the firm ASIG, who provide refuelling services at Manchester airport, struck on Bank Holiday Monday.
Dockers in Dublin are into to the eighth week of strike action against job cuts at one of Whittakers’ companies, Marine Terminals Limited (MTL).
Some 150 Servisair workers at Liverpool’s John Lennon Airport are on all-out strike.
Teachers in the NUT and ATL unions in Tamworth, Staffordshire, are set to strike on Wednesday 16 September in defence of democratically accountable community education.
UCU union members at Barnsley College have voted by 76 percent in favour of strike action against redundancies and College restructuring.
About 600 refuse workers at Enterprise Liverpool are staging a series of daily one-hour daily strikes over pay and conditions.
An all-out strike of some 600 refuse workers at Leeds city council is set to begin on Monday of next week.
Greedy bosses at a number of bus companies are provoking a series of disputes with workers over pay.
Bus workers at First Aberdeen have voted overwhelmingly to reject two pay offers from management and to resume strike action.
