The Aslef train drivers’ union is balloting its members on ScotRail in a dispute over disciplinary procedures.
The National Association of Probation Officers (Napo) held its annual conference in Scarborough last weekend. Over 400 delegates attended.
Refuse workers in Eastleigh in Hampshire are planning to go on strike next month over changes to their working arrangements.
Cadbury workers joined a Unite union "Manufacturing Matters" lobby of parliament on Wednesday of last week against plans to move their work to Poland. The Polish union Solidarity backs their campaign. Marek Wytrykowski, from a Cadbury factory in Warsaw, said, "We support the campaign against Cadbury taking part in a race to the bottom for cheap labour. We are not happy to take work from Britain and we send our best wishes."
The police commander in charge of the operation which ended in the killing of Jean Charles de Menezes told an Old Bailey jury last week that she had not given an order to shoot him.
There is growing tension between the biggest oil companies and thousands of their offshore workers in the North Sea over the issue of holidays.
BBC director-general Mark Thompson’s plans to slash 2,500 jobs and increase outsourcing at the corporation have created shock and anger among workers.
Protest at the torture flights Stop the War in Manchester held a protest vigil at the city’s airport last week to highlight the way that some British airports have been used to ferry detainees to torture centres abroad under secret rendition flights run by the CIA.
Twenty activists from the NUT teachers’ union in the west of England met on Thursday of last week to discuss solidarity action in the possible upcoming pay dispute in the Unison union.
The consultative ballot of over 250,000 members of the PCS civil service workers’ union has been extended to Wednesday of next week due to the impact of the recent postal strike.
Members of the PCS civil service workers union at National Museums Liverpool (NML) struck for the fourth time last Saturday in their dispute over below inflation pay increases.
The result of the ballot of over 800,000 local government workers in the Unison union was set to be announced on Friday of this week.
