Workers at Terminal 5 (T5) at Heathrow airport struck from Friday of last week to Tuesday of this week in their dispute over bonus pay.
Three thousand First Bus workers in Glasgow are set to ballot for strike action in support of a driver who was sacked.
London Firefighters The London regional committee of the Fire Brigades Union (FBU) is recommending a ballot of its members in defence of the shift system.
Unions representing university academics and academic related staff – the AUT and the lecturers’ Natfhe union are currently balloting their members for strike action.
An exciting Respect meeting took place in Hackney, east London, on Tuesday of last week. Around 60 people attended to select candidates for the May council elections.
Royal Mail management is making an outrageous attack on postal workers’ right to strike. It requires a national response.
Edinburgh Edinburgh council is set to re-ballot tenants after losing the stock transfer ballot in December of last year.
A lively demonstration of 600 people made its way through central London to the US embassy last Saturday demanding justice for the British residents in Guantanamo Bay.
Tory run Westminster council in London and its partner Westminster Vertex last week announced that 400 council jobs will be moved to the Scottish Highlands. No consultation with the workers has taken place.
Around 350 people met in London last Saturday for a meeting organised by the RMT union on the crisis in working class political representation.
Bereket Yohannes from Eritrea killed himself last week at Harmondsworth detention centre. He became the seventh asylum seeker to die at his own hands while incarcerated in a British detention centre.
Around 1.5 million workers from at least ten unions could soon be on strike over pensions. It is a prospect that will frighten Labour ministers and give heart to all those who want to put an end to the slaughter of workers’ pensions.
