Around 460 bus workers at First in Aberdeen are balloting for strike action over pay. The ballot includes drivers, mechanics and cleaners in the Unite union.
The threat of strike action by train drivers at the Carlisle‑based nuclear rail freight company DRS has forced bosses to climb down over pay threats.
The Unison union’s national delegate conference last week was left reeling by general secretary Dave Prentis’s opening speech in which he said the union would issue "no more blank cheques" for Labour.
The powerful 48-hour strike by London Underground and Transport for London workers two weeks ago has forced management back to the negotiating table.
Thousands of construction workers have walked out of work and taken illegal unofficial strike action. The wildcat strikes follow the Total oil multinational’s sacking of over 600 workers at the Lindsey refinery site in Lincolnshire.
Iran is in the grip of a popular rebellion, the like of which has not been seen since the 1979 revolution.
The diversity of the movement in Iran reflects the different forces that have been drawn onto the streets.
US-led coalition forces in Afghanistan have launched air strikes in the Helmand province as they try to secure bridges and river crossings to beat back the Taliban.
The row over the transparency, or otherwise, of the inquiry into the war on Iraq has exposed the continuing influence of Tony Blair on the Labour Party – and the weakness of Gordon Brown.
There is a war going on in the construction industry, and its outcome will affect us all.
Hundreds of pickets marched down the road around the Lindsey refinery to the entrance of the nearby ConocoPhillips site on Monday morning.
The construction industry has been at the heart of debates over "British jobs for British workers". This slogan was raised during a series of unofficial strikes earlier this year over contractors who were using "foreign" or "non-local" labour.
