Up to 100,000 people filled the streets of central London today, Saturday, in protest at Israel's continuing assault on Gaza.
Up to 1,000 protesters forced Preston City Council to fulfill a promise to fly the Palestinian flag over Preston Town Hall tonight, Friday.
The next strike in the pay battle with the Tories has been announced today, Wednesday. The Unison union has called a second one day strike for 600,000 local government workers on 30 September—right in the middle of the Tory party conference.
Some 1,000 workers are on strike at five Argos distribution centres. This weekend was set to be the launch of the chain’s new catalogue. It is one of the busiest times outside Christmas for Argos branches across Britain, with hundreds of new product lines to rush in. But bosses hadn’t reckoned with a seven-day strike by members of the Unite union, which began on Saturday of last week.
Ritzy cinema workers, members of the Bectu union, struck for the eleventh time last Sunday.
Over 100 elderly and disabled people braved the rain in Barnsley last Saturday to march through the town chanting slogans and singing songs.
A company owned by Labour-run Glasgow city council has used Tory anti-union laws to stop a strike.
Defence Support Group workers stopped production for 15 minutes on Thursday of last week in support of their union’s claim for an 8 percent pay offer.
Union leaders have called off a planned strike by BBC workers. The walkout had been set to take place on Wednesday of this week.
The threat of a seven-day strike has forced mental health charity Look Ahead to withdraw attacks on workers in Hackney, east London.
Unite members at Tilbury docks are in their fourth week of an all-out strike.
Over 500 Unison union members at the Food Standards Agency (FSA) will ballot to strike against an imposed 0.75 percent pay offer this week.
