Catering staff on Virgin Trains are currently re-balloting for industrial action over the imposition of new working arrangements that increase the average working day and disrupt staffs’ rosters.
Cleaners on the Eurostar trains at St Pancras International have pledged to reactivate their strike action if their employer does not make them a decent offer during talks this week.
Activists on the Wirral are celebrating after the council made a dramatic U-turn and announced that it would scrap plans to close 11 libraries in the area.
Anger is growing over plans for a new pay structure that would mean wage cuts for some of Sheffield council’s lowest paid employees, including care assistants and Street Force street cleaning workers.