Museum strike over treatment
Over 200 workers in the Prospect civil service workers’ union at the Museum of London struck on Monday of this week against their below-inflation pay award of 2 percent.
Resistance to the government’s academy programmes for schools is growing in Bolton as NUT teachers’ union members at Withins School announced their intention to strike again on Wednesday of next week.
Some 7,000 further education lecturers in the UCU union in London took strike action on Monday of this week as part of their battle against a below-inflation pay offer.
CT Plus
Bus drivers in the Unite union working for CT Plus in Hackney, east London, are set to strike on Friday afternoon of this week over the sacking of Dennis Shine, a union rep.
Network Rail maintenance strike
Over 12,000 Network Rail maintenance workers in the RMT union are set to strike from 12 noon on Saturday to 5.59pm on Sunday.
Around 140 workers at the Fujitsu electric components factory in Birmingham struck on Monday of this week in a fight against the transfer of jobs to the US.
Postal workers at five delivery offices in Oxford have asked for strike ballots after Royal Mail managers have forced them to take on extra work, without agreement with the union.
Postal delegates at the CWU union conference were set to discuss proposals for a national strike against attacks on pensions, mail centre and delivery office closures, and the threat of further privatisation of Royal Mail as Socialist Worker went to press.
Last week Community Union members at Wybone factory, Barnsley stepped up their action in their fight to get a decent wage increase. They were out on strike all week. One picket said, "We really affected production this week. They’ve had managers working but they’re not very good at it."
Unison union members now have an increasingly good prospect of a fight over pay in local government, this year. Our members are among the lowest paid public sector workers, and are really feeling the pinch.
