Tanker drivers win 20 percent Oil tanker drivers in the T&G union at ConocoPhillips contractor Suckling Transport have won a 20 percent pay increase after threatening a strike.
Workers at Heerema, a rig-building plant in Hartlepool, are set to start an indefinite strike this week over pay.
Airbus workers from Chester will take part in a mass rally this week in protest at plans to axe 800 jobs.
Amicus and T&G union members have voted to merge to create a new union with around two million members.
Postal staff from all over North Staffordshire may strike after Royal Mail managers were brought in an attempt to weaken a strike at the Burslem delivery office.
Over 2,000 London Underground maintenance workers in the RMT rail workers’ union were set to be balloted from Wednesday of this week. Their Metronet employer plans to transfer employees to other companies.
Members of the PCS union working for the Maritime and Coastguard Agency have voted by over 80 percent to reject management’s 2006 pay offer.
Thousands of members of the PCS civil service workers’ union in the Ministry of Defence and the Identity and Passport Service are currently taking part in a consultative ballot to strike on Friday 30 March over pay.
Signalling staff in the RMT union in Scotland struck for 48 hours from Wednesday of last week. The dispute is over implementation of a national agreement on the 35-hour week with Network Rail.
An emergency council meeting in Tower Hamlets, east London, on Thursday of last week showed why we need Respect councillors to oppose the neoliberal agenda of all three mainstream parties.
The government’s recently announced 1.9 percent pay increase for more than a million NHS workers is provoking widespread anger, particularly among those on the lowest grades.
In the course of a few days this week Yunus Bakhsh, a leading Unison union and health activist, could be both disciplined by his union and sacked from his job as a psychiatric nurse.
