Anti-war activists are also getting ready for the arrival of the G20 leaders in London.
Activists across Britain are gearing up for a massive protest when the G20 meets in London later this month.
Some 1.3 million local government workers in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, have received an award of an additional 0.3 percent pay rise, bringing the 2008-9 pay increase to 2.75 percent.
A group of 21 community service supervisors at Glasgow council are still solid as they enter their 10th week of strike action over single status regrading.
Around 10,000 members of the PCS civil service workers’ union working in contact centres in the Revenue & Customs department are to ballot for action from Friday of this week.
Wigan Unison members facing wage cuts and an assault on nationally held terms and conditions of service by the local council are pressing on with plans for a demonstration on 21 March.
Some 160 delegates attended the Campaign Against Climate Change Trade Union conference on Saturday of last week.
Thousands of rail workers at different companies are in dispute over a number of issues, raising the prospect of coordinated and hard-hitting industrial action.
More than 2,000 bus drivers in the Unite union at Metroline in north London are to ballot on a new pay offer on Friday of this week.
East Dulwich Around 200 people came to a night of music and comedy last Saturday organised by East Dulwich Stop the War in aid of the people of Gaza.
Derek Simpson, one of Gordon Brown’s favourite trade unionists, has narrowly won the election for general secretary of the Amicus section of the Unite union.
Delivery workers in Upper Edmonton, north London, are in a militant mood following a successful strike last Saturday. Leading CWU union activists say their action could soon spread across London.
