A planned strike by 130 East Midlands Trains senior conductors in the RMT union set for last weekend was suspended pending the outcome of talks.
Around 700 cleaners on the London Underground are set to strike for 24 hours from Thursday of this week to win the London living wage of at least £7.20 an hour, and for better working conditions.
Frustration and anger with the government ran through the national delegate conference of the public sector workers’ Unison union in Bournemouth last week.
Some 300 people crammed into a Unison union conference fringe meeting in defence of well known activists who are being victimised by their own union.
Workers from the long running battle for workers’ rights at Fremantle, the private firm that runs care homes in Barnet, north London, received rapturous from the conference.
A debate on teaching assistants heard a series of shocking accounts of management bullying.
Karen Reissmann, the whistle-blowing nurse and trade union activist who was sacked after more than two decades of service, continues to fight her case.
Unite’s 100,000 members in health have balloted overwhelmingly to reject three years of pay cuts.
The growing campaign against Gordon Brown’s war on workers’ wages took a major step forward this week after local government workers voted to strike.
The victory by Shell tanker drivers last week shows how workers can defend their living standards in the face of rising inflation and attempts by bosses and the government to hold wages down.
The next time politicians or the media demand that the West should "sort out Africa", we should remember the attempted coup in Equatorial Guinea in 2004.
