Unions Follow

Metroline Bus workers at Metroline in north London were shocked to learn last week that their final salary pension scheme was being closed. Alternatives to the final salary scheme are cheaper for the company but less secure for workers.

Around 100 people came to an Organising for Fighting Unions meeting in Birmingham on Monday – despite roads around the venue being closed by police after a stabbing.

The points on the railway in Cumbria where a Virgin Trains train derailed on Friday of last week were faulty.

Some 70 traffic enforcement workers across Enfield in north London in the GMB union went on strike for three days last week in their dispute with National Car Parks (NCP).

Southampton Southampton care worker Lynda Miller works night shifts looking after the elderly. It’s a job she has done for more than 30 years. Southampton City Council has now cut her pay by £5,600 a year.

Underground cleaners lobby parliament London Underground cleaners in the T&G union lobbied parliament last week against plans for over 200 compulsory redundancies. The T&G and RMT unions called off a strike ballot after management withdrew the plans

Organising For Fighting Unions (OFFU) will hold a major rally in London on 1 May – the same day that a quarter of a million civil service workers in the PCS union are likely to strike.

Members of the RMT rail workers’ union on the London Underground have voted by over three to one to strike over pay.

The New Labour council in Newham, east London, took another step in its campaign of union busting last week when taxis carrying threatening letters arrived at the homes of refuse workers.

Hundreds of cleaners working on London Underground are balloting for strike action over job cuts.

Thousands of members of the NUJ journalists' union are set to strike at the BBC on Monday over compulsory redundancies. Members of the Bectu union working for BBC News in London were also set to strike.

Around 600 Simclar workers and supporters marched through Irvine, Ayrshire on Saturday to keep up the pressure on the company.