Teachers in the NUT and ATL unions in Tamworth, Staffordshire, are set to strike on Wednesday 16 September in defence of democratically accountable community education.
A series of local firefighters’ disputes are hotting up with ballots for strike action in both South Yorkshire and Merseyside, and continuing industrial action in London and Essex.
Some 70 Unite union members at Visteon Engineering Services (VES) in Chelmsford, Essex, began a second three-day strike on Tuesday of last week in a dispute over the company’s refusal to honour a pay a 5.25 percent pay rise.
Mail centre workers in Stoke-on-Trent have voted to suspend their indefinite strike after national leaders of their CWU union strongly recommended that they return to work.