Twenty four dockers working for SCA Logistics based at Tilbury Docks in Essex began an 11-day strike on Thursday of last week.
Max Watson, a Unison union rep at London Metropolitan University, has launched an appeal against a decision dismissing a complaint he had brought against bosses. Max said he had suffered detriment after bosses targeted him because of his union activities. An Employment Tribunal dismissed this claim.
Workers at One Housing Group in London struck from Friday of last week to Monday of this week. The Unite union members are angry at the suspension of their steward Bryan Kennedy.
Campaigners from across Britain met in Manchester last Saturday to organise against Tory attacks on benefits. More than 80 people attended the national meeting of the Anti Bedroom Tax and Benefit Justice Federation.
Over 100 Freedom Riders from all over South Yorkshire travelled by train to Meadowhall in Sheffield on Monday of this week.
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Anger at increasing workloads dominated the annual conference of the EIS, Scotland’s biggest education union, in Perth last week.
THE GMB union’s national congress in Nottingham was dominated by anger against Tory austerity and the bosses’ attacks – and what an incoming Labour government should do to stop it.
Bruno Dos Santos, a stateless asylum seeker, died in Verne prison on the island of Portland in Dorset last week.
Some 180 delegates of the Bakers, Food and Allied Workers' Union (Bfawu) gathered at the union's annual conference in Southport this week.
