Royal mail bosses have announced a pay freeze for all workers at the company. The CWU union has told the company there is no possibility of its members accepting this.
The Unite union’s national demonstration for jobs, in Birmingham, on Saturday 16 May, is shaping up to be a major response to the government’s attempts to make workers pay for the recession.
Chancellor Alistair Darling declared war on ordinary people and public services with his budget last week.
Rob Williams, Unite union convenor at the Linamar (ex-Visteon) plant in Swansea, south Wales, has been sacked. On Tuesday afternoon Rob had locked himself in his office and over 100 workers had walked off the line in solidarity.
Workers at Prisme Packaging in Dundee declared victory as they ended their 51-day occupation on Friday.
Andrew Murray, the national chair of Stop the War, introduced a lively and serious discussion at the packed AGM of Greater Manchester Stop the War Coalition last Saturday.
Most teachers returned to work this week and did so facing a series of important
The campaign to defend Glasgow schools escalated this week when parents from Our Lady of the Assumption (OLA) in Ruchill along with parents from the Wyndford school staged a rooftop protest on their school on Monday.
Unite union activists from across London bus companies are set to meet on Monday of next week to discuss a campaign for central pay bargaining.
The Unite union has postponed the strike ballot of more than 2,000 bus workers at Metroline in north London, which was scheduled to take place on Friday of last week.
Ballot papers for the elections to the PCS civil service workers’ union national executive, deputy general secretary and the assistant general secretary were sent out last week.
Over 10,000 members of the PCS civil service workers’ union in Revenue & Customs call centres are set to walk out for two hours on Monday of next week.
