Around 700 workers walked out at two Scottish naval bases on Tuesday of this week. More walkouts are expected as well as action short of a strike. The workers at Faslane and Coulport are members of the Unite union employed by Babcock Marine.
A construction worker on the Crossrail project died after a piece of concrete fell on his head.
The Unite union’s Executive Council (EC) cut its affiliation fee to the Labour Party in half last week, following Ed Miliband’s changes to the unions’ role in the party.
Environment Agency (EA) boss Paul Leinster pulled out of a meeting last week to discuss job cuts with EA staff unions. These include Unison, GMB, Unite and PCS.
TUC women’s conference was set to begin on Wednesday of this week in central London. Delegates will discuss the Tory assault on working class women and resistance to it.
In collaboration with the Justice for Christopher Alder campaign, the Northern Police Monitoring Project is hosting a free film screening of Death on Camera. A Q&A with Christopher’s sister, Janet Alder will follow.
A few days after detective sergeant John Davidson was questioned in the Macpherson inquiry in 1998, Doreen Lawrence made a statement.
The Unison union has suspended the first two of three 72-hour strikes by residential care workers in Glasgow. The first walkout was set to start on Friday of last week.
Teachers took to the streets across Britain last weekend to publicise an upcoming strike.
Politicians are scrambling to claim migrants take away jobs or drive down wages, reports Ken Olende
UCU union members at the University of Central Lancashire (Uclan) struck on Thursday and Friday of last week over 52 job cuts.
Left wing candidates got big votes in recent UCU union elections.
