Last Saturday a fantastic demonstration through central Cambridge launched the campaign to save jobs at Cambridge University Press (CUP).
Over 150 councillors, tenants associations’ reps, medical students, pensioners and others joined a lively Keep Our NHS Public march through Camden, north London, on Saturday of last week.
Last week saw further important developments in the case of Yunus Bakhsh.
The indefinite strike by 21 community service supervisors in the Unison union continues into its seventh week. The workers are fighting a single status pay deal that would mean some workers losing up to £2,000 a year and extend the working week by an extra day.
Two pay settlements on the London buses have raised wider arguments about how bus workers can fight in a recession.
Essa academy staff defend conditions Workers at the Essa academy (formerly Hayward school) in Bolton are pushing for a strike ballot to defend their trade union agreement against management attempts to water it down.
A group of 20 Stop the War Coalition activists met in Aberdeen on Friday of last week to pressure a local meeting of the Food Cooperative to ban Israeli products from its stores.
Some 140 journalists at the Financial Times newspaper have voted to ballot for strike action unless management cancels its programme of compulsory redundancies.
Workers at the BBC World Service in the NUJ union have voted overwhelmingly for strike action over plans for redundancies, job relocations and for shifting programme making operations overseas.
Workers at the Yorkshire Post and Yorkshire Evening Post group in the north of England are set to strike against 18 planned job cuts.
Journalists working at the Morning Star newspaper have called a one-day strike over pay, with NUJ union members set to walk out on Monday of next week.
