Workers at car maker Nissan look set to go on strike for the first time in a row over pay. Bosses’ offer of a 2 percent rise over two years was rejected by workers at its Sunderland plant last month.
Postal workers’ reps in the CWU union will gather for a national briefing next Wednesday. They are facing major challenges.
Local government workers across Surrey struck on Thursday 21 December as part of their campaign over pay. The one-day strike was the second organised by the Unison union.
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Management escalated the dispute between IT services giant Fujitsu and its Manchester staff by walking away from talks with Acas last month.
The strikes planned at Iceland supermarket’s depot at Enfield, north London, were called off at the end of last month. A majority of T&G union members at the plant accepted an offer from DHL, the company that runs the depot, to restart serious talks on 29 December.
Some 11,000 cabin crew at British Airways (BA) are balloting for strike action. The airline could face a series of 24 hour strikes.
For two days in November along with over 2,000 of my colleagues I withdrew my labour and went on strike for better pay. As London bus drivers working for Metroline we had seen for too long our colleagues in other bus companies in London doing the same job but getting paid more.
On Saturday 3 March thousands of people will protest against the health cuts that are causing increasingly bitter demonstrations against government policy.
One of the main hospitals expected to serve the central London Olympics site in 2012 – King George’s in Ilford – is being set up for closure of its front line emergency services as part of a £16 million cuts package being driven through by the Barking, Havering and Redbridge Hospitals Trust.
Over 60 members of staff and students joined a lively lunchtime demonstration at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in London on the last day of term last year in support of low paid cleaners at the university.
