Hundreds of people joined the With Banners Held High festival last Sunday in Wakefield, West Yorkshire. Those taking part included Labour shadow chancellor John McDonnell, TUC general secretary Frances O’Grady and Jon Trickett MP.
Traffic wardens in Hackney, east London, struck on Monday and Tuesday last week for a 5 percent pay rise.
They are also fighting for improvements to the long-service award, better holiday allocation and fair implementation of sickness procedures.
There were lively pickets, and a demonstration outside Hackney town hall.
They are outsourced by Hackney council to parking management company APCOA. The action follows a 100 percent vote for strikes by the 40 wardens.
The Unite union members put in a claim for a 5 percent cost of living pay increase in April but bosses refused.
They are now fighting for proper pay negotiations every April. This is what would happen if these workers were still directly employed by local government instead of being outsourced.
Up to 80 people protested outside the first full meeting of Pendle council in Lancashire since the reinstatement of Tory Rosemary Carroll last week.
Carroll was suspended from the Tories and became an independent councillor after she shared a racist comment on Facebook.
Pendle council would have been hung had the Tories not brought her back into their fold.
Keith Chadwick
Anti-cuts activists protested outside the newly-elected Birmingham city council’s first full meeting on Tuesday.
Campaigners have been fighting since November to save the Fairway adult day care centre from closure.
The council wants service users to go to other daycare centres or employ carers in their own homes.
But the campaign says the Fairway is an important service and the council should guarantee its future.
Workers at a car parts manufacturers are balloting for strikes and an overtime ban over pay and conditions.
The 270 workers are employed by Magna Exteriors at Halewood on Merseyside and Ellesmere Port in Cheshire. They make car parts for Nissan, Vauxhall and Bentley Motors.
They are fighting a two?year pay freeze and bosses’ plans to ditch shift premiums.
The Unite union says that the shift premiums are worth up to 23 percent of wages. The ballot closes on 25 May.
Workers at some sites of the Picturehouse cinema chain are set to walk out after they delivered an 86 percent vote for more strikes in their long-running dispute.
The Bectu union members are fighting for demands including maternity pay, paternity pay, union recognition and the London Living Wage of £10.20 an hour.
Tube drivers on London’s Jubilee Line will strike on 6 and 14 June over the imposition of new rosters and timetables.
“Drivers are angry at the impact on work-life balance. Managers should take unions seriously rather than wading in with the big stick,” said RMT union general secretary Mick Cash.
A staffing crisis in the NHS
Health workers set to strike across four Manchester hospitals
Bus workers rejected an offer and came back out
