FE pay Further education lecturers in the UCU union are being balloted from Monday of this week over their latest pay offer.
Sheffield council is running a ballot of parents over plans to transform Parkwood school into an academy.
Members of the NASUWT teaching union at Sinfin community school in Derby took strike action on Thursday of last week over plans to transform the school into an academy.
Around 250,000 teachers across England and Wales will be balloted from Monday of next week on whether to take national, discontinuous strike action over pay.
With the global financial system currently in meltdown, surely it is time to stop handing our schools over to the people who are largely responsible for this disaster.
Around 2,500 members of the RMT transport union at the Metronet tube infrastructure company are to ballot for action over the victimisation of a union rep, plans to reduce signals maintenance and attempts to impose rosters.
Kay Gibbs, the last of the "Bristol 3" – three CWU union members who were sacked after last year’s national postal workers’ strike – has been reinstated.
CWU union reps are meeting this week for a national briefing in a climate of continued attacks on the postal service and the conditions of its workers.
Activists in the PCS civil service workers’ union are mobilising to ensure that there is the biggest possible yes vote in the ballot of 270,000 members over below-inflation pay.
Around 30 supporters of the People Before Profit Charter held a lively picket outside British Gas’s Cardiff headquarters last Saturday to demand a windfall tax on energy company super profits.
Workers across local government reacted with anger and dismay at their unions’ decision to go for binding arbitration in their fight against New Labour’s pay curbs rather than call more strike action in England and Wales.
The epicentre of the economic earthquake might lie in the US, but its echoes are being felt around the world.
