POSTAL WORKERS across Britain start a ballot on Monday on whether to accept a major new deal on pay and conditions.
ANGER OVER pay is continuing to make itself felt among Britain's low paid bus workers.
THE AUT higher education union has announced that it will ballot its 47,000 members on strike action.
NORTHERN Ireland saw its biggest civil servants' strike in 16 years in December as thousands struck against poverty wages.
OVER 100,000 civil servants have had enough of appalling pay, imposed by the government.
THE BIGGEST pay fight in the civil service for decades is on the cards. Some 89,000 PCS union members working in job centres and benefits offices, and in the Department of Work and Pensions, are due to begin a strike ballot at the start of January. The first two strike days are set for 29 and 30 January.
LABOUR'S RULING national executive voted on Tuesday to smooth the way for Ken Livingstone's return to the party.
DETAILS OF the national pay and conditions deal between Royal Mail and the CWU union were emerging as Socialist Worker went to press.
THOUSANDS OF Land Rover workers in Solihull are set to take industrial action from Monday of next week.
THE NEWS that the teachers' NUT union will not be going ahead with a boycott of SATs tests in primary schools is a blow to tens of thousands of teachers and parents.
MORE THAN 1,500 people marched in Dundee on Thursday of last week in support of Scotland's nursery nurses' national regarding campaign.
