Truck drivers in the Unite union are on strike for the fourth week in pursuit of a pay claim in Barrow-in-Furness. The drivers are employed by TDG, a firm which provides transport for the Kimberley-Clark paper mill.
Meat hygiene inspectors in the Unison union have voted two to one in favour of strike action over cuts to overtime payments and the introduction of a "work anytime" system.
Around 50 members of the CWU union who work for British Telecom protested in Coventry against management’s use of performance management to intimidate staff.
Workers at the University of Sussex took part in a fourth day of strike action on Thursday of last week against planned attacks on their pension scheme.
Over 500 people protested in Rochdale last Thursday over the council’s plans to attack the terms and conditions of its 8,000 workers through pay and grade restructuring. The lively protest had flags and banners from the Unison, Unite and GMB unions.
Anger continued this week over the three-year below-inflation pay deal negotiated by Unison. The deal affects more than one million workers in the NHS and it dominated last week’s meeting of the union’s health executive.
Union activists at the London Fire Authority were buoyed by the news that plans to shut the brigade museum and library have been dropped.
The Three CWU branches in the current ballot for strike action over mail centre closures are the Coventry area branch, the Eastern No 6 branch and the Northamptonshire amalgamated branch.
Hundreds of dock workers in Dover are set to strike for three days from Thursday of this week against plans to outsource 190 jobs. The workers are to kick off this round of strikes with a demonstration through the town on Thursday.
The leak of the membership list for the fascist British National Party (BNP) is an opportunity for trade unionists and anti-fascists to drive home a blow against Britain’s largest Nazi organisation.
The attack on the pensions of BT workers is taking place against the background of financial meltdown but it started much earlier.
Some three hundred trade unionists and local residents attended a heated meeting in Barnet, north London, on Tuesday of last week to oppose potential moves to privatise council services.
