Members of the UCU union at Heriot-Watt University based in Edinburgh are being balloted for strikes over compulsory job losses.
Scottish FE lecturers in the EIS-FELA union are going into dispute over attempts by management to replace teaching with training. This will force lecturers on to instructor and assessor contracts.
Left activists in Unison are celebrating this week after scoring a fantastic result in the nominations for the Unison general secretary election.
Tate gallery workers were set to protest on Wednesday of this week after more than a month on all-out strike.
Friday of last week marked the final day of engine production at Ford’s Bridgend plant in South Wales.
Rehab workers in Wigan and Leigh working for We Are With You began the second round of their ten-day strike for equal pay on Monday.
Anti-racists are organising to show solidarity with refugees housed in a former military camp in Penally, near Tenby in West Wales.
The Tories were set to suffer a humiliating defeat in parliament this week over their handling of the coronavirus crisis. But they looked set to be saved by a speaker’s ruling.
Health workers are “physically and emotionally on their knees” as they prepare for a second wave of coronavirus.
Labour MPs, trade unionists, campaigners and socialists have joined forces to call for a “fightback across workplaces and communities to demand ordinary people won’t pay for the crisis”.
An asylum seeker in Glasgow finished his hunger strike after the Home Office granted him limited leave to remain in Britain on Thursday. Abdul Safi stitched his lips shut and went on hunger strike on Monday in protest at 12 years of living in legal limbo.
Protests have erupted across the US after the police officers who killed Breonna Taylor in March were not charged for her death.
