Bus drivers in the T&G union at Eastbourne Buses struck for 24 hours on Tuesday of last week for better pay.
‘The pressure is on the leaders of Unison. They can be under no illusion that they only got away with not reinstating strike action by the skin of their teeth.
The Unison union local government conference, also had a significant discussion of pay for local government workers, which took place in the wake of chancellor Gordon Brown’s declaration of his intention to clamp down on pay in the public sector.
The lecturers’ strike to save A-levels at Cambridge Regional College has to be seen as the whole community’s struggle for comprehensive education.
Workers on the Docklands Light Railway (DLR) in London have voted for the first strike in the company’s 19-year history.
Train drivers in the RMT and Aslef unions across the whole of South West Trains are balloting for action following the use of managers to drive trains during recent strikes at Waterloo station.
The group executive committee which runs the civil service workers’ PCS union in the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) met last week in Leeds to discuss the fight against job cuts.
Members of the Prospect civil service workers’ union at the Ordnance Survey have voted by four to one to strike in protest at the failure of management to agree a fair pay deal, ten months after its implementation date.
About 80 people attended a meeting organised by the National Union of Teachers (NUT) in east London on Monday to campaign against Labour’s education proposals.
Lewisham young people in protest People gathered in Lewisham, south London, last Saturday to protest against a dispersal order that targets young people on Lewisham high street.
As the United States-led Coalition and Afghan army gear up for a new push against insurgent forces in the south, the country looks set for a long season of intense fighting. The offensive focusing on Helmand and Uruzgan provinces comes as the Taliban extend their attacks to northern and western areas well beyond their traditional stamping ground.
To be honest, nobody I know really sits around berating the forces of neoliberalism for the state of education. University and college staff have plenty to complain about, and like most other groups of workers, we make sure that we do.
