Over 3,000 workers in the RMT transport union at six contractors who work for the Network Rail infrastructure company are to be balloted for industrial action after the firms failed to say there would be no compulsory redundancies.
There is deep anger among London tube workers in the RMT transport union after a legal challenge by their bosses to a strike ballot means that workers will have to vote again.
Tube drivers in the RMT union on London Underground’s Victoria Line are set to strike for 24 hours from 9pm on Tuesday of next week over the sacking of a worker.
Around 100 station staff in the Willesden Green London Underground station group struck for 24 hours from 7pm on Wednesday of last week over what their RMT union describes as "aggressive and bullying local management".
Journalists taking part in a one-day strike at the Daily Record and Sunday Mail in Glasgow organised a rally after it was announced that up to 24 staff members faced compulsory redundancy.
Postal workers in Watford are demanding a strike ballot after Royal Mail managers suspended the CWU union’s safety rep Bob Kennedy in a dispute about unsafe working practices.
Durham miner Norman Strike kept a diary of his life during the 1984‑5 strike. To mark the dispute’s 25th anniversary, he is publishing his diary daily on the internet.
The likelihood of a London-wide strike at Royal Mail took a big step forward this week as leaders of the postal workers’ CWU union sanctioned a ballot of the region.
London Underground workers in the RMT transport union were expected to return a big yes vote for strike action over pay, job cuts and bullying on Wednesday of this week.
Around 100 train conductors at the London Midland company struck on Sunday and Monday of this week against management’s attempts to force them to work on Sundays.
A planned strike by thousands of journalists in the NUJ union at the BBC set for Friday of last week was suspended after a deal over compulsory redundancies was reached.
