Some 4,000 workers in 373 Crown Post Offices (CPOs) are set to strike across the country for two days over the bank holiday weekend.
Activists were set to hold “mass sleepovers” against the Tory bedroom tax in towns and cities around Britain, to draw attention to the threat of homelessness if people lose their homes to the bedroom tax.
CWU Members at a Royal Mail delivery office on Roman Bank, Skegness, struck unofficially on Wednesday of last week.
Workers at Portsmouth processing centre are voting in a consultative ballot over plans to close it with the loss of 380 jobs.
Unison local government members in Scotland have very narrowly voted against strikes over pay.
The GMB and Unite unions called off all industrial action by service staff employed by Amey at Liverpool council.
Workers at Stirling council are preparing to strike, according to their Unison union.
Gravesham Council, Kent, has agreed to pay a “living wage” to low paid workers, following a campaign by the Unison union. I.
A drop in official unemployment figures can’t be allowed to mask the fact that the recession has allowed bosses to expand ways of exploiting new workers.
The regime killed over 1,000 people on the streets of Egypt in the last week
Across the world protests have taken place in solidarity with the Egyptian revolution.
More than 1,000 people marched through the West Sussex village of Balcombe on Saturday of last week, against plans to frack for shale gas.
