Seventeen women sacked eight months ago by private care provider Unique Care in Huddersfield are continuing their fight for justice. They were sacked after striking to defend their conditions and a sacked colleague.
Members of the RMT rail workers’ union on the Bakerloo line of the London Underground struck on Wednesday of last week. They were protesting against management plans to make workers "detraining" passengers at the end of the line do it by themselves rather than with another worker as happens at present.
Cindy Sheehan, the best known peace activist in the US, held a press conference at the Stop the War Coalition’s office last week.
The local government employers made a marginally improved pay offer to over a million local government workers last Friday.
Health workers in Unison, the biggest NHS union, are voting on whether to accept a revised offer from the government – a revision so small that the Nursing Times magazine suggested that it might just buy a nurse a pair of shorts on eBay!
Around 200 members of the PCS civil service workers’ union packed into a meeting at the Carer’s Allowance unit in Preston last week to discuss the government’s pay offer to workers in the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP).
The prospect of a coordinated public sector revolt has forced Gordon Brown to try and head off strike action by offering limited concessions.
Council workers in Bolton are set to ballot next month to strike over changes to their working conditions.
The NUJ journalists’ union is mobilising for its Stand Up For Journalism day of action on Monday 5 November.
The campaign to save the Crichton campus of Glasgow university, which is based in Dumfries, has been a success. This is thanks to the protests of the students, unions, staff and a large local campaign.
College and university lecturers are returning to work after the summer break and gearing up for action.
Hundreds of people attended US civil rights activist Jesse Jackson’s final meeting of the day in Nottingham on Friday of last week.
