OVER 2,500 drivers from English Welsh & Scottish Railway (EWS) struck on Saturday across Britain, leading to the cancellation of around 200 trains. Drivers, members of the Aslef union, want better pay and pensions plus cuts in hours.
SOME 3,500 workers at Herefordshire council decided at a meeting on Friday of last week to strike against threatened job losses and pay cuts. Bosses broke off long running negotiations last week and tried to impose a pay deal. Regional GMB union organiser Roger Jenkins said the council is cooking up "a recipe for conflict".
THE FIRE brigade employers showed at the start of this week that they have little intention of seeking compromise with firefighters and control room staff. The employers reneged on a promise to the Fire Brigades Union (FBU) that they would extend the legal deadline for calling strikes while talks take place. They retreated on Monday.
ACTIVISTS ACROSS the PCS civil servants' union have been organising to win the union's ballot for more democracy. They are fighting to win annual conferences and annual national executive elections.
ACTIVISTS IN Unison have been shocked by the decision of a disciplinary appeals panel to expel Candy Udwin, London Region deputy convenor and University College London Hospital (UCLH) branch secretary, and Dave Carr, UCLH branch chair, from union membership.
GLOBALISE Resistance will be touring colleges in the week running up to the anti-war demonstration on 15 February. The "Globalise This!" tour features three fantastic overseas speakers.
THE BRITISH National Party wants to try to appear respectable in the run-up to the council elections this May. The Anti Nazi League is urging people to get active against the BNP Nazis and help expose their true Nazi face.
BUSH AND Blair are ready to ignore the vast majority of the world's people to launch their war. They are ready to wage war with or without getting it sanctioned by the United Nations (UN).
THE US has drawn up plans to use nuclear weapons in an attack on Iraq. The terrifying prospect was revealed in a classified presidential directive leaked to the Washington Times newspaper. Stratcom, an arm of the Pentagon, has drawn up a list of possible nuclear targets in a "Theatre Nuclear Planning Document".
AROUND 50 TGWU shop stewards at a Vauxhall car plant on Merseyside heard a representative of the Stop the War Coalition at their union meeting last week. It is a sign of how the anti-war movement is reaching down into individual workplaces, estates, schools and colleges.
