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Baggage handlers and check-in staff for Swissport have voted overwhelmingly for strikes over pay at Heathrow, Gatwick, Stansted and Manchester airports.

The Unite union’s health sector committee voted last week for strikes to defend the NHS, and health workers’ pay and conditions.

A protest met education secretary Michael Gove when he came to speak in St Albans at a pricey lunch for the Chamber of Commerce on Friday 11 October.

Tory minister’s plan to freeze wages and blame health workers for cuts is a ‘massive insult’, says Sarah Ensor

Probation workers held lunchtime protests against privatisation on Thursday of last week. The Tories want to sell contracts for some probation work to private firms. 

Bosses of multinational bottle company Ardagh Glass have made concessions to stave off strikes for the second time.

Cleaners on the East Coast Mainline struck on Monday of this week. The RMT union members are employed by ISS.

Social Workers across Glasgow are on unofficial strike. They held a 60-strong union meeting on Monday of this week and voted unanimously to join colleagues who walked out on Friday of last week. And the dispute is spreading.

Some 50 health workers, trade unionists and NHS campaigners protested outside Yorkshire Ambulance Trust HQ in Wakefield on Tuesday of last week.

The TUC has called a nationwide day of action against blacklisting on Wednesday 20 November. Among events across Britain there will be a protest and lobby of parliament.

Ambulance workers in the GMB, Unison and Unite unions have overwhelmingly rejected NHS bosses’ proposal to cut sick pay by 25 percent in consultative ballots.

The GMB union last week called off planned strikes over zero-hour contracts at outsourcing company Serco.