The UCU lecturers’ union will hold a special higher education pay conference on 9 November. The key issue up for discussion at the meeting is the threat by our employers to withdraw from national bargaining.
Train drivers in the Aslef union at Midland Mainline struck, for the second time on Thursday of last week over pensions.
Between 30 and 40 students at Oxford university from a wide range of political backgrounds met on Monday of this week to plan a united campaign against the decision of the Oxford Union debating club to invite two prominent Nazis to speak on 26 November.
Hundreds of strikers rallied at Newham council buildings and depots in east London on Wednesday of last week. They were part of a strike in support of Unison union branch chair Michael Gavan, who has been suspended from work.
The indefinite strike by Glasgow council’s 270 day-centre workers, members of the Unison union, is now entering its fourth week. The council is still refusing to even negotiate with its workers.
Some 40,000 workers in Birmingham are heading into battle with the council over the "single status" pay deal.
Eastleigh Refuse workers in Eastleigh, Hampshire, staged a 24-hour walkout on Monday over working conditions.
Leading Unison union activist and psychiatric nurse Karen Reissmann has been sacked by Manchester mental health trust for the "crime" of bringing her employers into disrepute.
Over 250 people attended a national council of the Socialist Workers Party (SWP) held on Saturday to discuss the crisis engulfing Respect and the way forward for the left in Britain.
There are proposals to use the Human Tissue and Embryology Bill – which will be put before parliament in the next few months – to amend the Abortion Act and finally extend it to Northern Ireland.
Bakerloo action over safety Members of the RMT rail workers’ union on the Bakerloo line of the London Underground struck on Friday of last week.
Jurors trying the Metropolitan Police over events leading to the shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes have been told the police are not "above the law".
