Teachers in England and Wales are still waiting for the government to announce their pay deal for 2008‑11. The School Teachers Review Body (STRB) on pay gave its recommendations on teachers’ pay to the government in October, but it has yet to respond.
Thirty five agency workers at Carlisle’s Pirelli factory were set go on an indefinite strike on Wednesday of this week over a 1 percent pay offer.
Unions representing workers at seven British Airports Authority (BAA) airports including Gatwick and Heathrow have called off strike action due to take place later in January, after the company caved in and conceded to their demands.
Supporters of Yunus Bakhsh, the leading health trade unionist who has suffered a long-running victimisation by his employers for union activity, are planning a major fundraising operation on his behalf.
The GMB union presented a "Scrooge of the Year" award to the courier company CitySprint last month.
Royal Mail’s consultation on its proposals to change the company’s pensions scheme is drawing to a close.
PCS ballot for strike over redundancies Over 70,000 members of the PCS civil service workers’ union in Revenue and Customs are balloting for a one day strike on 31 January over management’s failure to give a guarantee over redundancies.
Over 375 drivers at Wilts and Dorset bus company struck for 24 hours on Thursday of last week and another 24 hours on Tuesday of this week.
Gordon Brown has said that he wants all new houses to be carbon neutral by 2016. His government has also made much of its plans to create "eco-towns" of newly built sustainable homes.
Around 60 people, including several wheelchair users, blockaded the offices of Fife council on Monday in a protest against new charges for homecare and transport services provided to disabled people.
The US president George Bush is on a tour of his allies in the Middle East at a time when US policy in the region is lurching from disaster to disaster.
Over 2000 people across Britain joined a global day of action on on 28 December to mark the first anniversary of the US-backed Ethiopian invasion of Somalia.
