Barking & Dagenham GMB and T&G union members who work for Barking & Dagenham council in east London have voted overwhelmingly in a consultative ballot for strike action over single status and equal pay claims.
All the disputes on this page are linked to the single status pay agreement.
Wakefield Council sent letters to thousands of workers before Christmas offering compensation for years of unequal pay.
Cash collectors at Coventry City Council struck between Christmas and the New Year over single status. The Unison union members in the exchequer banking took action as part of an ongoing wave of strikes that have hit the council.
The Unison union is threatening Greenwich council in south east London with a "new year of discontent" over single status.
Thousands of council workers in North Tyneside have been issued with redundancy notices – but then told not to worry about their jobs.
This must be the year when the anti-war movement forces an end to the disastrous occupation of Iraq and reverses the direction of government foreign and military strategy.
Hundreds of thousands of civil service workers are gearing up for a major battle with the government to stop job losses and defend public services.
The money is still rolling in for the Socialist Worker appeal. The total so far is £131,427.
Grosvenor Casinos workers take action Hundreds of casino workers went on strike on New Year’s Eve for 24 hours in a pay dispute. Over 300 members of the T&G union at Grosvenor Casinos in London took action in protest at an imposed 3.5 percent wage increase.
Hundreds of senior train conductors in the RMT rail workers’ union on Central Trains struck twice over the Christmas period forcing the company to cancel more than half of its services.
Industrial action and demonstrations at JJB Sports in Wigan have been suspended.
