Staff at Scottish Enterprise were considering a new pay deal as Socialist Worker went to press. If it is not acceptable then 1,000 workers were to strike on Thursday this week.
Fight over pay and reprivatisation The RMT union is balloting 1,350 members on South East Trains for strikes to protect pay and conditions at the firm, which faces reprivatisation next year.
Jack Dromey, deputy general secretary of the T&G union, was to speak at a rally in Glasgow alongside Gate Gourmet workers on Wednesday of this week to build support for the dispute.
Robin Cook's death means there will be a by-election — the first since the general election — in the Scottish constituency of Livingston.
We are very hopeful that this rally will be the launch pad for an intensified and powerful campaign.
A preparedness to take industrial action has won a significant victory for council workers in Aberdeen.
The National Union of Students (NUS) executive met last week to discuss this year’s education funding campaign.
Public sector union leaders met government ministers last week and again rejected moves to raise the pension age to 65.
If we accept that a fourth world war has begun — launched through globalisation and neo-liberalism by the economic and political powers of the "developed" North — then the strength shown by the Bolivian social movements has made this country a frontline in that war.
Workers at the centre of two disputes that go to the heart of Labour’s anti-union, pro-boss policies came together on a confident, militant protest through Bristol on Friday of last week.
Over 400 postal workers rallied in London on Wednesday against plans for privatisation and "liberalisation".
Ninety six workers in the test area of Bristol’s Rolls Royce plant have entered their second week of indefinite strike action in confident mood.
