South Yorkshire Fire Brigades Union (FBU) members voted by three to one in a ballot last week to resist proposals by management to change their shift rotas.
Thousands of people took part in the annual May Day marches and protests in many parts of Britain last weekend.
Workers and students will be protesting in Liverpool this Saturday against management’s plans to make devastating cutbacks to courses at both Liverpool University and Liverpool John Moores University.
Over 120 people attended a meeting at King’s College London last week to discuss how to respond to the threat of redundancies.
Lecturers at London Metropolitan university were to strike on Thursday of this week in protest at planned job cuts.
A concerted campaign by UCU and Unison union members has averted the threat of major job losses at Doncaster college.
Members of the University and College Union (UCU) in higher education have received ballot papers asking them to vote for strike action and action short of a strike.
Jarvis Around 1,000 rail engineering workers in the RMT transport union at the contractor Jarvis took industrial action on Tuesday of this week against job cuts.
Some 10,000 RMT union members across London Underground and Transport for London are still preparing to begin their reballot for strike action over job losses, pay and management bullying.
Despite the shameful vote by the Labour-controlled council in Glasgow to close 22 primary and nursery schools, parents and campaigners vowed to continue the fight to defend their children’s education and communities.
Thousands of migrant workers and their supporters marched and rallied in central London last Monday, brought together under the campaign Strangers into Citizens.
On May Day 150 people marched around the Bloomsbury colleges in central London to demand the London living wage of £7.45 an hour for all the staff there.
