The likelihood of a London-wide strike at Royal Mail took a big step forward this week as leaders of the postal workers’ CWU union sanctioned a ballot of the region.
London Underground workers in the RMT transport union were expected to return a big yes vote for strike action over pay, job cuts and bullying on Wednesday of this week.
The government has found yet another way of putting pressure on the long-term unemployed, in addition to the Welfare Reform Bill currently going through parliament.
Over 50 people protested against an army showroom in Hackney, east London, last Saturday.
A group of journalists at Thomson Reuters press agency have voted for strikes to defend their nine-day working fortnight.
Around 100 train conductors at the London Midland company struck on Sunday and Monday of this week against management’s attempts to force them to work on Sundays.
news that the Northumbria, Tyne and Wear NHS Trust has upheld the sacking of nurse and activist Yunus Bakhsh was just breaking as Socialist Worker went to press.
The madness of the privatisation of council housing services was brought into stark focus last week as 235 maintenance workers in Glasgow were temporarily left without an employer.
A major dispute in Glasgow council escalated this week as around 10,000 workers in the Unison union began a ballot for action.
Members of the PCS civil service workers’ union at call centres in the Revenue & Customs (HMRC) department voted overwhelmingly to take industrial action for improvements to their terms and conditions last week.
A planned strike by thousands of journalists in the NUJ union at the BBC set for Friday of last week was suspended after a deal over compulsory redundancies was reached.
Journalists at Glasgow-based tabloids, the Daily Record and the Sunday Mail, are due to strike for a second time on Friday of this week.
