Nearly 6,000 GMB union members working as British Gas engineers have voted by four to one to strike over pensions.
Omagh hospital protest Over 25,000 people rallied in Omagh, Northern Ireland, on Monday of this week to protest against the proposed closure of the accident and emergency and acute services at Tyrone County Hospital. Omagh’s population is 18,000.
Over 200 people came to a joint union protest outside King’s Cross rail station in London on Saturday over New Labour proposals to water down tube safety.
About 100 RMT union members at South Eastern Trains (SET) are set to strike for 24 hours on Monday of next week.
PCS civil service workers’ union members have voted overwhelmingly to create a political fund. Some 80 percent of those voting were in favour.
The long running industrial action at Sefton council on Merseyside over the victimisation of two Unison trade union officers has been called off following a deal brokered by the Acas conciliation service.
A rally of around 100 people greeted strikers outside Tower Hamlets town hall in east London on Monday of this week.
Over 7,800 members of the PCS civil service workers’ union in magistrate’s courts across England and Wales are balloting on strikes over pay.
The threats to trade unions and workers at Heathrow airport were underlined this week by an article confirming the report Socialist Worker ran on 1 October.
Unite Against Fascism campaigners were out in force over the weekend campaigning against the fascist British National Party (BNP), which was standing in council by-elections in two wards in Thurrock, Essex, on Thursday of this week.
Places are filling up fast for the International Peace Conference to be held in London next week.
The civil service workers’ PCS union is among those sending a national delegation to the conference.
