Last Saturday the National Union of Journalists hosted a packed out conference entitled "New Threats to Media Freedom – how we fight back".
The World Against War Demonstrate 15 MarchTroops out of Iraq and Afghanistan. Don’t attack Iran.Assemble 12 noon, Trafalgar Square, London. Called by the Stop the War Coalition, CND and BMI as part of a global protest.
The NUT teachers’ union will ballot its members for strike action over their below-inflation pay offer.
Around 100 strikers at Royal Mail’s Burslem office, who have been on strike since 18 December, have agreed to a deal to end their dispute.
BBC workers need action over cuts The strike ballot of up to 10,000 BBC workers in the NUJ, Bectu and Unite unions was set to end on Wednesday of this week.
Mental health workers in Manchester plan to lobby health minister Ivan Lewis MP this Friday as part of their campaign for the reinstatement of nurse and union activist Karen Reissmann.
Nominations have now closed for elections to the Unite national executive council and the right wing have failed to contest a number of seats.
Members of the Unite union at Photronics UK’s site in Trafford Park, Manchester, have won a ballot for union recognition, overturning the company’s derecognition of the union in late 2006.
Workers at aerospace company Goodrich Actuation Systems are set to strike on Monday of next week over the closure of the firm’s final salary pension scheme to new workers.
NUJ members at Reuters have called for the union to begin an industrial action ballot following the company’s refusal to hold meaningful negotiations over changes to journalists’ job roles, which it imposed on Monday of this week.
Journalists in the NUJ union at the Milton Keynes Citizen newspaper struck from Monday to Wednesday of this week after management refused to recognise their pay claim.
Bus drivers in the Unite union at the Brighton and Hove Bus and Coach Company are moving towards industrial action after voting to reject a pay offer that would amount to only 1.1 percent for new drivers.
