Delegates at the Connect communications union conference in Blackpool last week took a backwards step in support the union executives' proposals for a merger with Prospect and rejecting an offer to merge with the CWU that they had earlier backed. The whole weight of the union machine was used to force this through in the debate.
Around 60 supporters of the United Left met in Manchester last Saturday at the first quarterly meeting of the left wing group in the Unite union.
Unions representing workers at BAA, which owns seven airports, are in the concluding stages of a consultative ballot on pay.
Talks between British Airways (BA) management and unions will enter their fourth week with no apparent sign of resolution as the two sides try and reach an agreement on issues such as pay, redundancy and outsourcing.
Members of the RMT transport union at Network Rail Maintenance have voted by over 95 percent to reject harmonisation plans. Some 4,094 members voted to reject the proposals against 151 in favour.
Rail engineers in the RMT transport union at Jarvis Rail and Fastline struck for 48 hours from 6am last Saturday against the companies’ refusal to give guarantees on compulsory redundancies.
Talks were continuing this week between management and the RMT transport union in an attempt to settle the dispute at London Underground and Transport for London.
Around 40 people attended the annual general meeting of the Socialist Teachers Alliance (STA) in London on Saturday of last week. The STA is one of the main left organisations within the National Union of Teachers (NUT), and the one where supporters of Socialist Worker are active.
Members of the NASUWT union at four schools in Tamworth, Stafford, took strike action on Tuesday of this week as part of a long-running campaign to stop a planned academy in the town.
Lecturers at Manchester college were set to strike on Wednesday of this week against what it calls "unnecessary and punitive" job losses.
Workers in the UCU union at Barnsley college will ballot for strike action against plans to impose 53 redundancies.
UCU union members in Gorseinon College, Wales, have voted by over 70 percent to strike against 10 planned job losses at the college. They will strike next Wednesday.
