Warehouse and distribution workers at Argos, one of Britain’s biggest and most profitable retail chains, have voted by 67 percent to strike against a below-inflation pay offer.
Last call for new pay offer Cleaners in the Unite union working for Initial Air Services at Manchester Airport will strike for three days from Thursday of next week over pay.
Workers at East North East Homes Leeds (ENEHL) were set to strike this Wednesday in defence of Unison union activist John McDermott
Bus workers across the different companies operating in London are to march on 24 July to demand better pay and conditions.
Over 200 equality activists from 31 trade unions met last week at the TUC’s annual LGBT conference to discuss combating homophobia and transphobia.
Tens of thousands of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people (LGBT) and their supporters joined the annual Pride march in central London last Saturday.
The PCS civil service workers’ union group executive in the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) made a decision last week that is a setback to the campaign against the attacks on public sector pay.
About 600 workers at the Dragon Liquefied Natural Gas terminal site in Waterston, Milford Haven, west Wales walked out on Sunday of last week over health and safety following the death of a worker.
There was shock and anger in the Unison union this week as it emerged that its leaders plan to proceed with a discplinary hearing into Yunus Bakhsh, the high profile activist who last week was sacked from his job as a psychiatric nurse.
In an important fight over city academies, members of the Unison and NUT unions at the Hayward school in Bolton have voted to strike over plans to transfer the school out of local authority control and transform it into an academy.
The Association of Colleges made a revised pay offer to lecturers in further education last week. The offer was 3.2 percent – up from the previous offer of 2.5 percent.
The Tory led Local Government Association, representing all councils across England and Wales plus a list of other key local authority and professional organisations, has endorsed the Defend Council Housing’s key demands in a new hard hitting report.
