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The election for general secretary of the Amicus section of the Unite union ends on Friday of this week.
Over 300 people attended a memorial event for Leon "Trix" Francis in Birmingham last Sunday – the day that would have been his 26th birthday.
Postal workers in Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent, were celebrating this week after a rooftop protest won a victory over Royal Mail managers.
More than 400 people joined a march for Palestine in Wandsworth, south London, last Saturday.
The disarray over the case of Yunus Bakhsh – who was sacked from his job and expelled from the Unison union – has deepened still further.
In 1972 there was a national strike of building workers.
Protests are continuing at the Staythorpe construction site near Newark in Nottinghamshire and the Isle of Grain site in Kent.
"Our most recent four-day strike ran from Thursday to Sunday last week and it was absolutely solid. The strike has been well supported and all 140 NUJ members of the chapel have been involved in picketing and winning support.
Around 60 NUJ and Bectu union members in the South Asian services at the BBC World Service went on strike on Thursday of last week against the offshoring and outsourcing of their sections and resulting compulsory redundancies.
Newsquest York NUJ union members at Newsquest York have given notice of holding union meetings every weekday until 30 March over management plans to cut four journalist jobs.
A mood to fight is growing throughout South West Trains, where I work as a guard. Bosses are not satisfied with the £31.7 million profit they announced towards the end of last year and are launching an assault on jobs.
