Cleaners on London Underground in the RMT union are continuing their fight for a London Living Wage of £7.45 an hour and against the suspension of a number of workers over their national insurance numbers.
Metronet, the failed tube maintenance consortium that was taken into administration last year, has suspended Andy Littlechild, the RMT union representative for Metronet Rail Infrastructure Services (MRIS).
Barnsley Some 200 lecturers at Barnsley College are being balloted for strike action to win the reinstatement of sacked UCU official, Bob Willerton.
Sacked nurse Karen Reissmann won a major victory last week when she was elected to the Unison union’s national executive.
The financial crisis has spooked capitalism’s ideologues. Anatole Kalatsky, a widely-read hardline free marketeer, has written of the need to consider the "wholesale nationalisation" of the banking system. Calls for tougher restrictions on the City are everywhere.
Around 600 postal workers and their supporters marched on Labour’s conference on Monday to demand that the government back off from its attack on a public postal service and those who work in it.
The London bus workers’ campaign for the same higher wage at all bus operators has entered a new phase with workers at three major companies now balloting formally for strike action.
The fight by 600,000 Unison union members in local government in England, Wales and Northern Ireland against poverty pay took a disastrous turn for the worse last week.
The government’s commitment to privatisation is putting schools, hospitals and the care of the vulnerable and elderly at risk.
Civil service workers in the PCS union will be balloting for strike action from Wednesday of this week to fight a series of below-inflation pay deals across different government departments.
Some 2,000 people turned out for an anti-knife crime rally in London last Saturday, called by the families of some recent victims of gun and knife crime.
We are taking to the picket lines this week with over 150,000 other local government workers. Colleagues in the Unite and the GMB unions are striking with us.
