Over 3,500 workers at Scottish Water have begun a ballot on strike action over pay.
Activists were out campaigning for Solidarity candidate Louise McLeary in Thursday’s by-election in Glenrothes, Fife, as Socialist Worker went to press.
The Another Education Is Possible campaign was launched on Saturday of last week, with 170 delegates from universities across Britain attending the launch conference.
This week lecturers at Goldsmiths College massively rejected management proposals to privatise the recruitment of teaching
On Friday of this week the UCU union will hold a conference of lecturers in higher education to discuss our 2009 pay claim.
New strike at Sinfin school NASUWT union members at the Sinfin community school in Derby began a three-day strike on Tuesday of this week in their continuing campaign against plans to turn the school into an academy.
Over 200 workers at the Appledore shipyard in north Devon struck on Friday of last week and Monday of this week over pay.
Workers at the threatened Ford plant in Southampton have reacted with anger at the company’s announcement that it is to close for a whole month over Christmas.
Hundreds of tenants in Colwyn Bay and Pensarn in north Wales and Stoke-on-Trent are facing eviction.
London bus workers in the Unite union are to demonstrate at City Hall from 8.30am on Wednesday of next week in the latest stage of their campaign over pay and conditions.
Imagine that a well-known union activist was sacked as a result of false allegations that he had subjected his colleagues to a campaign of criminal intimidation – without ever being told of the charges against him. You would expect his union to be up in arms.
