IT services company Fujitsu Services (formerly ICL) is facing a strike ballot over attempts to derecognise the Amicus union at its Manchester offices, which employ about 800 people.
What can you do to make 28 March a day which shakes the government?
The government last week arrogantly rejected an official report which called for it to compensate 85,000 people who have lost all or part of their company pensions.
Firefighters in the FBU union were due to meet on Wednesday of this week to vote on a deal over pensions recommended by the union’s leadership.
In the last two decades, a remarkable revolution has been occurring in Britain – a great surge in both the numbers of the very rich and in the level of their wealth.
Tuesday 28 March can be the start of a new chapter in British workers’ history. We need it to be as exciting and militant as the revolt we’ve seen in France.
Over two-thirds of those striking on 28 March will be women. Most get smaller pensions than average because they get lower pay, often work part?time, and, in many cases, have breaks from paid work to care for children or other family members.
It's not often that trade unionists get a chance to make their points about pensions directly to government ministers. But it happened recently in Ashfield, Nottinghamshire.
The government and the press have tried to divide today’s pensioners from future pensioners and workers in the private sector from those in the public sector. But there are strong forces pushing for unity.
Trade union leaders in France have called a one-day general strike for Tuesday of next week.
For the past ten years various French governments have been trying to break with what they call the "Juppé syndrome".
The French government has decided not to negotiate, so we have called a general strike. The call has come from the trade unions, the youth trade unions and the national coordination committees of students.
