DWP union leaders made right decision by Jane Aitchison and John McInally
The NUT union in Croydon, south London, may ballot for industrial action over plans to reorganise secondary education and introduce academies.
Strikes have forced bosses at high street giant Argos to improve their 3.8 percent pay offer to warehouse and distribution workers. The company now says it is prepared to give workers 4.1 percent immediately, to be followed by 2 percent in December and 2 percent in August next year.
Around 12,000 maintenance workers at Network Rail struck for a second time last weekend in their fight for the harmonisation of pay and conditions across the company.
Around 100 London Underground staff at Elephant & Castle, Charing Cross and Lambeth North struck for 24 hours from Sunday evening to demand the reinstatement of a colleague.
Up to 3,000 members of the PCS civil service workers’ union at the Identity and Passport Service (IPS) struck for three days from Wednesday to Friday of last week over a restructuring that threatens over 100 job cuts, and over other issues.
Workers in the Unite union at Promens plastic packaging in Beccles, Suffolk, have stepped up their campaign for decent pay as they enter their third week of industrial action.
Build support for Karen Reissmann Karen Reissmann, the nurse who blew the whistle on the crisis in mental health care in Manchester and was subsequently sacked, is taking her employers to employment tribunal in the autumn.
There are new talks in the local government dispute against Gordon Brown’s pay curbs that saw over half a million people on strike last month.
Around 70 activists from Unison and other unions came to a meeting last week to discuss "Is there a witch-hunt in Unison?"
Members of the Unite union at Arrowe Park Hospital and Clatterbridge hospital in Merseyside struck on Friday of last week in response to attempts by managers to impose monthly pay. Support staff, including catering staff and cleaners, walked out.
The three year pay deal for NHS workers, agreed in April, is now under such severe strain that there is almost universal agreement across the Unison union that it needs to be reopened.
