Unions Follow

College lecturers in the UCU union are working towards a big strike vote in our pay ballot – which closes on 14 April.

Some 20,000 council workers in Birmingham in the Unison, Unite, Ucatt and GMB unions are set to strike for two days on Wednesday 23 and Thursday 24 April in an ongoing dispute over single status pay cuts.

Tens of thousands of civil service workers in the PCS union are gearing up to join the day of action on 24 April.

Union leaders last week met chancellor Alistair Darling and other government ministers over public sector pay.

Over 2,000 workers from across Britain joined the Unite union’s demonstration at the Labour Party conference in Bournemouth last Sunday.

Most union leaders cling to the idea, despite all evidence to the contrary, that their link to the Labour Party is the way to get a Labour government that meets the aspirations of workers.

London was brought to a near standstill this week by a strike of some 2,300 engineering and infrastructure workers on London Underground that started at 6pm on Monday.

Gordon Brown's determination to hold down workers' wages continues despite growing anger against below inflation wage offers in the public sector.

Some 20,000 prison officers in England and Wales took illegal unofficial action on Wednesday of last week against Gordon Brown's public sector wage cuts and the disastrous overcrowding in prisons.

"Regrade, not degrade!" was the defiant chant of hundreds of social care workers in Glasgow on Friday of last week as they voted overwhelmingly to continue their indefinite strike into a third week.

Workers in Salford won a stunning victory last week.

The next round of post strikes organised by the CWU postal workers’ union in Royal Mail are still set to take place from Thursday 9 August. The strikes start in mail centres at 7 pm.