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Firefighters in London today (Friday) overwhelmingly voted yes in their ballot for industrial action short of a strike.

Albert Bore, leader of Birmingham Council Labour Group and Caroline Johnson, assistant secretary Birmingham Unison, 16 September 2010

Right to Work—supported by local trade unionists, anti-cuts campaigners and the Birmingham Council Labour Group—held a press conference yesterday to demand the right to march past the Tory Party conference in the city on 3 October.

More than 3,000 London firefighters surrounded their bosses’ headquarters today (Thursday)—as their union called a strike ballot.

Workers at the huge Coca-Cola bottling plant in north London struck today (Wednesday) – the first in a series of planned walkouts in their fight for a fair pay rise.

More than 200 bus workers demonstrated outside London's City Hall today over Mayor Boris Johnson's attacks on London's bus service.

Around 200 workers employed by Tory-controlled Barnet council in north London joined a lively town hall lobby on Tuesday of this week. They are angry at plans to slash services and privatise whole departments.

Firefighters from across Britain were set to descend on the capital on Thursday of this week with a simple message: London’s battle is everyone’s battle.

The decision by the Higher Education Committee (HEC) of the University and College Union (UCU) to postpone balloting over jobs and pay was a serious error.

A significant shift in the battle against the Tories took place this week.