Fujitsu bosses hit by strike Around 140 workers at the Fujitsu electronic components factory in Birmingham struck on Tuesday of this week in a fight against the transfer of jobs to the US.
A number of prominent trade unionists have contributed to a new pamphlet entitled, What’s Happening: The truth about work and the myth of work-life balance.
The National Shop Stewards Network is holding its national conference in central London this Saturday 28 June.
The Justice for Cleaners campaign at the School of Oriental and African Studies (Soas) won a major victory last week by gaining the London Living Wage for its cleaners.
Some 66 members of the NUT union at Pimlico School struck on Wednesday and Thursday of last week.
Members of the NUT union in Lady Margaret primary school in Ealing, west London, held a second one-day strike on Wednesday of last week.
Members of the NUT teachers’ union shut down the Withins School in Bolton on Wednesday of last week by striking over plans to transfer the school out of local authority control and turn it into an academy.
Doctors in Newcastle are outraged that they have been "effectively excluded" from plans to create three new surgeries in the city – and that private medical firms have been allowed to run them instead.
Members of the NUJ journalists’ union at the Press and the Gazette & Herald in York have vowed to fight compulsory redundancies after the newspapers’ owners Newsquest announced the loss of eight jobs in the editorial department.
Delegates were meeting at the RMT rail workers conference in Nottingham this week to discuss many crucial issues for the union.
Around 330 station staff in the RMT and TSSA rail workers’ unions are set to strike for 24 hours from Thursday of this week over compulsory redundancies at Network Rail.
