CWU union leaders abandoned their declared timetable and drew back from issuing official notification of a strike ballot on Monday of this week.
Post Office Limited Post Office Limited (POL) workers have rejected a pay deal in a consultative ballot.
The Unison union health service executive voted last week to recommend a pensions deal which for 90 percent of health workers would involve an increase in contributions from 6 percent to 6.5 percent.
Over 200 people packed into the Pollokshaws Burgh Hall on Tuesday of last week in a meeting called by the Glasgow Campaign to Welcome Refugees, local networks of activists, and supported by members of Unity - Union of Asylum Seekers.
Four West Midlands police officers charged in connection with the death in custody of a 38 year old man, Mikey Powell, have had the case against them dropped.
Postal workers in Carterton and Witney in Oxfordshire are on unofficial strike against management bullying.
Over 200 activists in the newly formed University and College Union (UCU) met in London last Saturday for the launch conference of UCU Left, a new rank and file organisation within the union.
The Unison union national conference, held in Bournemouth last week, was marked by a left mood among delegates and warnings addressed to New Labour.
‘The business is actively planning to heavily invest in a new piece of technology – walk sequencing machines.
Driving Standards Agency Around 1,800 members of the PCS civil service workers’ union working for the Driving Standards Agency (DSA) are balloting for industrial action over the threat of office closures, job losses and changes to working practices.
Islington teachers and parents protested at accountants Kingston Smith in London last week. One of the firm’s senior partners is Michael Snyder, chairman of the policy and resources committee of the Corporation of London which wants to co-sponsor an academy in place of Islington Green School. On 20 July at Islington town hall, the council executive is set to discuss issuing a closure notice on Islington Green School so that it can be reopened as an academy. Join the protest in Upper Street, London N1, from 6.30pm.
New Labour in Tower Hamlets, east London, is running scared of the issues raised by Respect. And it has come up with a novel tactic for avoiding any kind of public accountability for its programme of neo-liberalism and privatisation.
