A packed public meeting last week buoyed campaigners against the privatisation of the NHS in Camden, north London.
More than 120 delegates from Unison local government branches across Scotland met in Glasgow last week to discuss the way forward for their pay campaign.
After two fantastic days of strike action in July there appears to be a worrying twist in the fight for decent pay for local government workers in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.
At the beginning of the 21st century there are more countries across the world with governments that are subject to election than ever before in history.
The growing frustration and anger against Gordon Brown’s determination to make workers pay for the economic crisis broke through at the TUC conference this week.
Delegates to the TUC conference were clearly angry with the government not just over pay, but over the direction of the Labour Party.
The TUC overwhelmingly voted to call for an end to anti-abortion attacks on women’s rights and for improved access to abortion services. Their demands included extending abortion rights for women in Northern Ireland.
A packed fringe meeting organised by the RMT transport workers’ union saw Tony Benn, Unite's Irish regional secretary Jimmy Kelly and the RMT’s Bob Crow speak against the neoliberal drive in the European Union (EU).
All the unions at the TUC backed the call for a windfall tax on the super profits of the energy companies.
Around 1,000 bus workers at Metrobus in south east London are set to join the pay battle on the London buses when they strike alongside 2,500 First Bus workers on Friday of this week.
More than a quarter of a million workers across the civil service in the PCS union will vote on strike action in protest at the government’s pay policy.
The executive of the National Union of Teachers (NUT) agreed unanimously last week to ballot members for discontinuous strike action against a below inflation 2.45 percent pay deal.
