UCU congress took a tough stance against the government’s points based immigration system (PBSI), voting to boycott it and to campaign for it to be abolished.
Workers at the Stead McAlpin textile factory in Cummersdale, near Carlisle, last week voted against a take-over plan that could have seen massive cuts in their pay and worse conditions.
Workers at defence research firm QinetiQ have voted in favour of taking industrial action in protest at a pay freeze.
Workers at Anglian Water are to stage a 24-hour strike and a work to rule in a dispute over pay.
Factory workers from Falkland based Smith Anderson Group Ltd, a major UK paper bag manufacturer, took 24 hour strike action from 7am on Wednesday of last week.
Local authorities which are raising rents and selling off properties are facing growing oppostion from angry tenants.
The recent TSSA rail workers’ union conference in Torquay was overshadowed by a debate about 17 branches having their delegate credentials removed by the union’s general secretary Gerry Doherty.
After 21 weeks on strike, Glasgow community service supervisors have voted to accept an improved offer and end their dispute.
Postal workers in London have voted by 91 percent in favour of strike action as part of a fight to defend their jobs, their union, and the publicly-owned postal services they provide.
Harry Sheridan was killed in December last year when an excavator bucket fell on him.
One of the men behind a huge construction blacklist pleaded guilty last week to breaching the Data Protection Act.
