College workers held a national day of protests on Wednesday of this week to demand fair pay. Workers in six trade unions – the UCU, Unison, GMB, Unite, ATL and ACM – have rejected an initial below-inflation offer of 2.5 percent.
Reel anger frames action Projectionists in the Bectu union at Odeon Cinemas have voted overwhelmingly to reject a proposed realignment of the payroll system.
Leading health trade unionist Karen Reissmann is seeking nominations to the national executive of her Unison union.
Unions in the NHS are reflecting anger at the government’s three-year below-inflation pay offer.
Unison union activist John McDermott is facing an attack from his employer.
Thousands of Scottish council workers struck for 24 hours on Monday.
Unison union members now have an increasingly good prospect of a fight over pay in local government, this year. Our members are among the lowest paid public sector workers, and are really feeling the pinch.
Bus drivers in the Unite union working for CT Plus in Hackney, east London, struck on Monday morning over the sacking of Dennis Shine, a union rep.
Some 200 people attended the biggest ever NUS Black Students conference in Coventry last weekend.
Adult education courses at the Bethnal Green Centre in east London are under threat. The director of children’s services at Tower Hamlets council recently confirmed that there were plans for the building to be "disposed of" after a two-year period.
Health bosses in Newcastle have created a storm of anger as they move to discipline leading trade unionist Yunus Bakhsh – despite doctors saying he is too ill to attend their hearing and urging the trust to delay its action.
The UCU lecturers’ union conference in Manchester last week was dominated by discussion of how Labour’s neoliberal policies are harming education. It was marked by a growing confidence that lecturers can fight back.
