A series of pay disputes at bus companies across London are coming to a head and offer the chance of coordinated strike action.
Youth and community workers for Coventry council last week protested against £360,000 of cuts which will hit some of the most vulnerable young people in the city.
A series of local firefighters’ disputes are hotting up with ballots for strike action in both South Yorkshire and Merseyside, and continuing industrial action in London and Essex.
Some 70 Unite union members at Visteon Engineering Services (VES) in Chelmsford, Essex, began a second three-day strike on Tuesday of last week in a dispute over the company’s refusal to honour a pay a 5.25 percent pay rise.
Some 20 construction workers in the Unite union protested against blacklisting at the Rock Triangle project in Bury, on Thursday of last week.
Workers at a Barrow gas terminal are continuing an all-out strike to demand a pay increase.
The wave of strikes at Royal Mail is entering a crucial period.
Mail centre workers in Stoke-on-Trent have voted to suspend their indefinite strike after national leaders of their CWU union strongly recommended that they return to work.
Around 125 postal workers at Dundee East delivery office, in the west of Scotland, walked out unofficially for 24 hours last week after bosses sacked a colleague.
Workers at Bognor Regis delivery office took two days of strike action last week. We have 118 staff at our office, and not a single one of them worked – other than the managers.
Workers at Tower Hamlets College, east London, are taking all-out, indefinite strike action to defend jobs and education.
Unite and PCS union members at IT services giant Fujitsu have voted overwhelmingly to strike in national consultative ballots that closed last week.
