Workers in the UCU and Unison unions at London Metropolitan University are set to come together in a day of joint strike action on Friday of this week.
As soon as the final bell went last Friday, parents from the St Gregory’s and Wynford primary schools campaign reoccupied Wynford primary school in protest at Glasgow council’s plans for massive cuts to education.
"Sack the bankers – not the teachers!" That was the chant of the hundreds of workers, students and their families as they marched through Tower Hamlets, east London, last Saturday in protest at planned cuts at Tower Hamlets College.
Trade unionists in Great Yarmouth are disgusted at the news that East Port UK is to sack the remaining 11 dockers it employs at the outer harbour.
Equality and Human Rights Commission Around 70 members of the PCS civil service workers’ union at the Equality and Human Rights Commission in Manchester protested on Monday lunchtime after bosses announced 50 job cuts.
Around 300 activists from across Britain attended the annual conference of the National Shop Stewards Network (NSSN) in London last weekend. The successful unofficial construction strike initiated at the Lindsey oil refinery was its backdrop.
Around 450 social work admin workers in Glasgow have voted to suspend an indefinite strike that was due to begin on Wednesday of this week, after voting to accept an offer recommended to them by their Unison union officials.
Business secretary Lord Mandelson’s plans to privatise Royal Mail are in deep trouble.
Construction workers have won their dispute at the Lindsey Oil Refinery (LOR) in Lincolnshire, in an awesome display of solidarity and militancy.
The deal won at the Lindsey Oil Refinery means that all 647 workers who walked out will be reinstated.
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Iraqis greeted the withdrawal of US troops from their cities this week by dancing in the streets.
