Students at Huddersfield Technical College in Yorkshire have rallied to the defence of college caretakers who are out on indefinite strike over pay.
On Monday of this week campaigners demonstrated outside Edinburgh’s city chambers against the proposed handover of council housing stock to a housing association. Ballot papers are expected to go out to 23,000 council tenants asking them to vote on the proposal.
Students and workers at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in London have won the reinstatement of two librarians after a campaign which saw staff vote four to one for strikes.
Postal workers lobby Hundreds of postal workers joined a lobby of parliament last week to press the case to keep Royal Mail fully owned by the public sector.
"We just work like slaves", "They treat us like animals". These are just some of the responses of cleaners on the London Underground in a shocking new study of low pay.
Communications staff working for Tower Hamlets council in east London are walking out on Monday of next week to defend their colleague Eileen Short.
Three rounds of strike action by firefighters in the West Midlands have started to win significant concessions from the brigade.
Nigel Flanagan and Paul Summers, the two Unison union officials sacked by Sefton council on Merseyside, have hit back against the council’s attempts to smear them.
Ambulance workers Ambulance workers in the West Midlands and Shropshire are set to ballot for strikes over the implementation of a new pay deal.
Schools in England are now reaching crunch time in responding to government instructions to restructure their staff. The deadline is 31 December, but at least four weeks are meant to be set aside for management proposals to be scrutinised by unions.
History was made last week with the result of elections for national officers in the NUT. Tower Hamlets teacher and Socialist Teachers Alliance (STA) candidate Baljeet Ghale came first of two vice presidents, and will become the first black president of the NUT in 2007.
Drivers at First Bus in Staffordshire and Cheshire were due to vote on Thursday on a new deal offered by the company.
