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Delegates at Unison’s local government conference voted today to back a campaign of strikes to defend their pensions.

Council workers in Doncaster have voted for strikes—and are set to join the mass walkout on 30 June.

The Saville Report’s recognition that all of the 13 Bloody Sunday dead and 13 wounded had been innocent sparked an eruption of joy in Derry. The sea of shining faces gathered in Guildhall Square for the release of the report on 15 June 2010 could have lit up a continent. This was the acknowledgement the Bloody Sunday families had craved through the long years of their trek towards the truth, and it was sufficient unto the day.

The Tories and the right wing press are bleating on about the turnouts in recent ballots for strikes among public sector workers. They claim the turnouts mean there’s no democratic mandate for strikes—and that they show most workers don’t want to fight their cuts.

A huge general strike in Greece has rocked the country’s government. Workers are furious at the government’s attempts today to force massive austerity measures through parliament.

Ealing Council has stepped back from consideration of any library closures.

Some 290,000 civil service workers have voted join the 30 June mass strikes against Tory attacks on pensions, jobs and pay.

Unite union members at the Fujitsu IT company in Crewe are balloting for strikes in defence of local trade union activist Alan Jenney.

Some 5,000 workers balloting at Doncaster council got an extra reason to vote yes this week as bosses announced another 700 job cuts.

PCS members who administer the My Civil Service Pension (MyCSP) scheme are fighting to save it from backdoor privatisation.

Hundreds of thousands of public sector workers plan to walk out together on 30 June after winning big strike votes.

Journalists at Newsquest in South London are set to strike on Wednesday and Thursday of this week over redundancies.