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Members of the EIS teaching union and the UCU lecturers’ union turned out at the Employment Tribunal offices in Edinburgh to demonstrate their support for victimised safety rep, Penny Gower.

The Campaign Against Climate Change trade union group has produced a pamphlet to show how the government could create one million green jobs. It is backed by major trade unions, including the RMT, CWU, PCS, TSSA and UCU.

Thousands of further education lecturers in the UCU union will be taking part in a national ballot over pay after rejecting a 1.5 percent pay offer.

At the time of writing, UCU members at Tower Hamlets College in East London have been on all-out strike for three weeks.

Members of the UCU lecturers’ union struck at five colleges on Tuesday as part of their long-running battle over pay.

Lecturers in the UCU union at Barnsley College are set to strike on Thursday of this week after a 76 percent vote for action.

UCU union members at Barnsley College have voted by 76 percent in favour of strike action against redundancies and College restructuring.

Voting in by-elections for the UCU lecturers’ union national executive committee begins this week.

Hundreds of workers in the UCU and Unison unions at London Metropolitan University took joint strike action on Tuesday this week against a vicious plan to axe up to a quarter of the workforce.

In June management at Tower Hamlets college presented a cost saving "efficiency" document to workers and their UCU and Unison unions.

The UCU union branch at Nelson and Colne College has unanimously passed a resolution criticising management’s announcement of one, and possibly more, compulsory redundancies.

Workers in the UCU union at Barnsley college will ballot for strike action against plans to impose 53 redundancies.