Workers at the National Express East Anglia train company are stepping up their fight over pay, conditions and reorganisation with their third 48-hour strike set for Thursday and Friday of this week.
Protest at Stoke Newington police A protest outside Stoke Newington Police Station, east London, on Wednesday of last week saw around 30 people gather to support Ibrahim Avcil.
Veroce is a typical Hungarian village – streets of wooden and stone houses built around a few shops and a huge church.
Danny Tervit, a street sweeper at Glasgow city council and a former deputy shop steward at the Bell Street depot, was sacked on Friday of last week and given notice for 3 September—as Glasgow street cleansing workers were preparing to strike.
If the government thought they were off the hook after the end of the Vestas occupation, they are in for a shock.
The government plans to slash redundancy and early retirement payments for all civil and public service workers from January next year.
The Fire Brigades Union (FBU) in London has won a ballot for industrial action short of strike action. The result was a magnificent 91 percent in favour.
Print workers in the Unite union at both the Guardian Print Centre and Trinity Mirror Group are balloting for industrial action.
Unite activists picketed Barclays shareholders on Thursday to protest against the closure of their final salary pension scheme.
IT workers have traditionally had fairly low union membership and, in the UK, IBM was no exception.
Anti-Nazi campaigners won a superb victory on the streets of Birmingham last Saturday.
