Some 1.4 million workers in local government moved a step closer to strike action over pay last week.
The "revised" pay offer made by the government to health workers last week is a disgrace. For those on lowest pay, it will mean an additional 90p a week at best. For those on higher bands it will mean an extra 50p and 70p a week.
"Regrade, not degrade!" was the defiant chant of hundreds of social care workers in Glasgow on Friday of last week as they voted overwhelmingly to continue their indefinite strike into a third week.
Veteran trade union activist Tony Staunton was disgracefully expelled from his Unison trade union last week following more than six months of suspension as branch secretary of the Plymouth council branch.
A major dispute over the direction of Britain’s public services is in the offing on the London Underground.
Health workers are to walk out over pay cuts in the first strike at a Sheffield hospital for more than 30 years.
Journalists at Scotland’s Herald, Sunday Herald and Glasgow Evening Times newspapers won a victory on Friday of last week. Management have backed down on the threat of compulsory redundancies and agreed to negotiate with the union.
King’s College Hospital rally Union members held a rally last week in support of Unite union representative Tony Anthrobus, whose job is threatened by a reorganisation at King’s College Hospital in south London where Tony has worked for over 40 years. A demonstration has been called on Wednesday 15 August, assembling 12.30pm, Ruskin Way entrance, King’s College Hospital, Denmark Hill
One of Gordon Brown’s first acts as prime minister was to let the public know that not only was he tough on super-casinos and civil liberties, but that he’s tough on drugs too.
Factory workers held an angry protest outside their workplace on Tuesday of last week against plans to introduce longer shift patterns.
Workers in Salford won a stunning victory last week.
Just over 100 people attended a public sector pay rally in Manchester last week jointly organised by the PCS, CWU and Unison unions.
