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The possibility of more than a million workers striking together in July has moved a step closer. The GMB union announced on Friday of last week that it is balloting 220,000 of its members in local government and schools over whether to strike over attacks on their pay.

Action by pathologists at  Royal Berkshire Hospital in Reading has been postponed for two weeks while pathologists consider a deal.

Coming disputes include firefighters, council workers, hospital staff and teachers, reports Charlie Kimber

The branch secretary of Waltham Forest Unison Health branch, in east London, and six other stewards resigned from the union last week.

Workers who provide vital language, cultural and religious services in the NHS in Tower Hamlets, east London are under attack from bosses at Barts Health, Britain’s largest NHS trust.

Health workers in the Unison union have voted overwhelmingly for a ballot to strike over pay as Socialist Worker went to press.

The Unison union has threatened a year of unrest in the NHS after senior reps agreed to call a strike ballot over pay.

Up to 40 people rallied to save the Lifeworks centre in Cambridge on Saturday of last week.

Doncaster care workers were set to strike for three days from Sunday of this week in a continuing fight to stop Care UK bosses slashing their pay.

A planned selloff of George Eliot Hospital in Nuneaton, Warwickshire, has been called off.

Some 300 people packed into a meeting in Halifax, West Yorkshire, to protest against the proposed closure of an A&E unit.

Some 150 workers at Ealing hospital were set to walk out for a further seven days in a row over pay and holidays.