93 percent vote for health strike Members of the Unite union at Arrowe Park and Clatterbridge hospitals have voted by 93 percent for industrial action after the Trust imposed changes from weekly to monthly pay.
Supporters of Yunus Bakhsh – the high profile nurse and activist who has been sacked for his trade union activities – were encouraged this week as the Unison union decided to postpone its own disciplinary action against him.
Firefighters working for Grampian fire and rescue service have voted to ballot for strike action after a colleague with 22 years of experience was sacked for being overweight.
Over 30 Unison union members in Leeds demonstrated outside the Head Office of East North East Homes Leeds (ENEHL) last Thursday while a meeting of the board of directors was taking place.
Members of the Unite union working in the NHS organised a national day of action over the three-year below-inflation pay deal imposed on health workers. Union members in London, Brighton, Norwich, Liverpool, Manchester, Nuneaton, Leeds, Poole, Belfast and Nottingham all held protests.
A number of government departments have seen hard-hitting action in the last few days as the PCS civil service workers’ union launched a week of action over low pay.
Over half a million workers, including classroom assistants, refuse collectors, admin workers, street sweepers, and other local government staff in the Unison and Unite unions, struck against low pay on Wednesday and Thursday of last week.
The People Before Profit Charter to defend workers’ rights and conditions in the face of a deepening economic crisis is winning wide support among working class people.
Hundreds of thousands of workers across Britain are fighting for decent pay, and bus workers in London are set to join them. Workers have resoundingly kicked out pay offers at most of the major bus companies.
Shortly after Socialist Worker went to press this week, the CWU union announced that activist Pat Carmody had been reinstated in his job at Pell & Bales call centre. The CWU announcement is copied below.
Gordon Brown used an address to the Knesset – the Israeli parliament – earlier this week to make new threats against Iran and label those who oppose Israel as "antisemites".
Many of the world’s leaders are treating Barack Obama as the US "president in waiting". They are urging him to find a way to stabilise Afghanistan and cool tensions in the Middle East.
