"This year the government and the employers have miscalculated," Dave Prentis, general secretary of the Unison union, told delegates to the public sector union’s conference in Brighton last week.
Around the country groups of Respect supporters are preparing to give striking postal workers their full support.
Civil service workers, postal workers and other public sector workers were set to march through Gordon Brown’s Kirkcaldy constituency on Wednesday – the day Brown became prime minister.
Around 5,000 protestors braved the Manchester rain on Sunday to join the Stop the War demonstration outside the Labour Party special conference that anointed Gordon Brown as the new party leader.
Some 340 members of the Unison union at Yorkshire Purchasing in Wakefield are set to take strike action over the imposition by management of how they are paid.
REFUSE workers in Salford are to stage a 24 hour strike in a dispute over the use of agency staff.
Supporters of Karen Reissmann – the psychiatric nurse and Unison union activist who was suspended by her employer last week – were heartened to hear that Unison’s national executive committee have pledged their full backing for Karen.
Workers at the Grampian Foods plant at Llangefni on Anglesey are to hold three days of industrial action in support of their disputes over pay, pensions and the increasing casualisation of the company’s workforce.
Two GMB union members who were sacked from their baggage handling jobs at Gatwick by Aviance, the airport ground services company following allegations of theft from passengers’ luggage have been awarded £58,400 and around £50,000 in reparation by Croydon Employment Tribunals for their wrongful dismissals.
Formal consultation on the closure of 43 Remploy factories will begin at a meeting in Leicester on Wednesday 20 June.
