The coordinated strike action by over 150,000 workers in the PCS civil service workers’ union which was planned for Thursday of this week has been suspended following the offer of talks.
Britain could see its first national teachers’ strike in over 20 years after the National Union of Teachers (NUT) called a ballot for a one-day national strike over pay.
Thousands of workers at Birmingham City Council, the biggest local authority in Britain, are resolutely resisting their employer’s attempt to cut low paid women workers’ wages in the name of equal pay.
BBC workers need action over cuts
The strike ballot of up to 10,000 BBC workers in the NUJ, Bectu and Unite unions was set to end on Wednesday of this week.
Workers at aerospace company Goodrich Actuation Systems are set to strike on Monday of next week over the closure of the firm’s final salary pension scheme to new workers.
Journalists in the NUJ union at the Milton Keynes Citizen newspaper struck from Monday to Wednesday of this week after management refused to recognise their pay claim.
Disabled workers for Remploy on Merseyside are being balloted for industrial action over the closure of their factories with the results expected at the end of next week.