Duncan Milligan (DM): I’m Duncan Milligan. I’m writing a story for Firefighter. I want to talk about Monday’s vote.
SOME 50,000 firefighters and emergency control operators were to begin balloting this week for fresh strikes over their long-running pay campaign.
ABOUT 100 York postal workers staged a lightning one-hour strike last week over unpaid bonuses.
THE NATIONAL Pensioners Convention held a successful meeting recently at the Priory Street Centre in York.
THE TWO-DAY strike of 98,000 workers in job centres and benefits offices at the end of last month was the best supported yet.
WORKERS AT the Edrington whisky group in Glasgow were set to strike again on Thursday and Friday of this week.
SOME 4,500 members of the GPMU union in the paper industry have voted for industrial action over pay.
WORKERS AT First Group buses in Sheffield and South Yorkshire have won a major victory after three weeks of indefinite strike action.
DOCKERS AT 23 ports are to vote on their first national strike for 14 years.