Members of the Community union at Wybone factory in Barnsley thought their wage dispute was settled when management called a meeting on Thursday of last week.
Around 75 tenants and trade unionists attended the launch of a local Defend Council Housing (DCH) campaign in Kingston, west London last week.
East Dunbartonshire Council workers in East Dunbartonshire Council have taken to the picket lines in protest against the single status pay agreement.
Unite union stewards at the housing charity Shelter were set to meet on Thursday of this week to discuss whether to take further strike action and to plan the next stage of their campaign.
The PCS civil service workers’ union conference next week will see a major discussion of the fight against the government’s pay limits.
The growing campaign against Gordon Brown’s war on public sector workers took an important step forward this week after local government workers rejected their employers’ pay offer and moved to ballot for strike action.
It is now official. Any proposal by an employer to transfer staff to a new employer can be the subject of a trade dispute and strike action.
It was a lightning war of short battles and quick victories. Hizbollah and its supporters in Lebanon’s opposition movement have swept Western-backed militias out of Muslim and mixed areas of Lebanon.
Abortion rights in Britain are facing a serious attack over the next week and we have to defend them.
Build the lobby of parliament, 5.30pm, Tuesday 20 May, Old Palace Yard, opposite St Stephens Entrance to the House of Commons, London (Westminster tube)If your MP is holding a surgery this weekend organise a lobby of it to demand they attend the debate and vote to defend abortion rightsTrade unionists can insist on a pro-choice vote from union-sponsored MPsWrite or phone your MP to demand they defend a woman’s right to chooseOrganise an emergency meeting in your workplace or college to raise awareness of the vote and to build the lobbyHold Abortion Rights stalls in city centres and at workplacesLeaflet your workplace, hall of r
Trade union women in Scotland are at the forefront of campaigning for a woman’s right to choose.
