Remploy workers move to ballot The unions representing disabled workers at the Remploy factories are planning to begin a strike ballot. This is in response to plans to close 43 factories.
Lecturers in the UCU union at Harlow College in Essex struck on Thursday and Friday of last week against management’s attempts to impose a draconian new contract.
Workers at at Anglian Windows in Norwich struck and marched on Tuesday of this week.
London bus company Metroline has offered drivers a 5.2 percent pay rise, taking the basic rate to £11.50 an hour. This is a big shift from management and follows a 96 percent vote against the previous offer.
The RMT rail workers’ union is to ballot Network Rail workers denied bonus payments over the Grayrigg accident in Cumbria, and Scottish signallers docked a bonus for striking earlier this year.
BBC Radio 4 last week accused a leading supplier of fair trade bananas to major supermarkets of exploiting Eastern European migrant workers.
Around 80 people attended a CND-organised conference to discuss the replacement of the Trident nuclear weapons system in Glasgow last Saturday.
Workers at the Ritzy cinema in Brixton in London, members of the Bectu union, went on strike last weekend over poverty pay.
Workers at Sunvic Controls, Uddingston, near Glasgow, who are on all-out strike against their bosses imposing changes to their terms and conditions will take to the streets this Saturday.
A three day strike by over 100 Tesco distribution drivers at Livingston, near Edinburgh, rocked the multinational last week.
Special schools protest in Lewisham Some 300 protesters marched on Lewisham town hall in south London to lobby the full council meeting against the closure of special schools on Wednesday of last week.
Campaigners against cuts to school dinners in Waltham Forest, east London, celebrated last week after the local council backed down from plans to scrap the service.
