The postal workers’ CWU union has announced a new programme of strikes as part of its dispute with Royal Mail.
The Trades Union Congress (TUC), which took place in Brighton last week, showed the tensions between the unions and Gordon Brown’s government.
The TUC last week passed an NUT-backed motion attacking the government’s public sector pay policies and calling for public sector unions to coordinate strike action. Thousands of teachers have signed petitions calling on the union to step up its pay campaign.
Branches of the NUT teachers’ union have two weeks to nominate candidates for its national officers’ elections.
Hundreds of thousands of health workers are going to receive below-inflation pay awards after union leaders decided on a compromise with the government.
Richard Lambert, director-general of the CBI, was challenged over the tax arrangements of private equity firms as the unions claimed their jobs and conditions were affected by company takeovers.
New Labour’s business and enterprise secretary John Hutton unveiled what the media, reading the press releases, referred to as "a package of new measures" over employment law.
Refuse workers in the GMB union in Islington, north London, struck on Tuesday of this week against changes to recycling and collection rounds.
It now looks increasingly likely that the Unison union will be balloting its members in local government for strike action over pay. The ballot is set to start on 3 October.
A major battle is brewing in Europe’s biggest local authority.
