About 140 workers for Salford council’s direct service – refuse workers, recycling teams and road sweepers – struck on Wednesday 27 June. The workers are members of new Unite union. This was not a strike over pay, but against casualisation.
Over 170 teachers attended a meeting at NUT teachers union headquarters on Tuesday of this week to address the situation facing hundreds of overseas teachers in London.
The government stand accused of a cover-up after it was revealed police and soldiers would not be prosecuted over the death of Belfast solicitor Pat Finucane.
Supporters of Karen Reissmann – the psychiatric nurse and Unison activist who was suspended by her employer two weeks ago – were heartened to hear that both the national executive of her union and its health executive have pledged her their full backing.
Redundancies at Blood Centres across Britain Trade unionists were angry this week as Blood Centres across the country served notices of compulsory redundancies. One of those affected is Sandra Crowley, a longstanding Unison steward from the Blood Centre in Liverpool.
Some 340 members of the Unison union at Yorkshire Purchasing in Wakefield are set to take strike action after bosses imposed how they are paid.
Metronet, the crisis-ridden private contractor responsible for maintaining and upgrading most of London Underground, is demanding more public money to bail it out of its problems.
Members of the RMT union working for Network Rail in Scotland and Cumbria have voted overwhelmingly to strike in a dispute over bonuses.
Over the past few months lecturers at London Metropolitan University have been fighting university management over union recognition.
A lecturer from Harlow College spoke to the UCU Left conference about the campaign at the college against the imposition of new working conditions and contracts.
Over 120 lecturers came together for the UCU Left conference in London last weekend.
The Left Field at this year’s Glastonbury music festival was a storming success, drawing in crowds at all times and demonstrating the thirst for radical politics among young people today.
