Unions Follow

The Organising for Fighting Unions (OFFU) meetings are winning backing across the trade union movement.

"This was our chance to stand up. The union has sold us short." That was the response of one of the 200 British Airways (BA) cabin crew who attended a heated T&G union meeting at Heathrow on Monday.

The Trade Union Freedom Bill, which comes before parliament on 2 March, could remove some of the worst anti-trade union laws.

A large group of striking Amicus union members from Fujitsu came to the lunchtime rally in Manchester.

The Trade Union Freedom Bill is scheduled to come before parliament on Friday 2 March. This is an important focus for activists and a chance to raise the issue of anti-union laws.

The Institute for Employment Rights hosted a meeting last week to support the Trade Union Freedom Bill.

Over 6,500 tube workers in the RMT union are balloting for strikes over pay across London Underground.

Workers in the Amicus union at Selex-SAS (formerly BAE Systems) in Luton have won a union recognition agreement covering 400 engineers.

Some 130 CWU union members working on the Television Licensing contract for Capita in Bristol took strike action on 29 and 30 January in response to a business decision to move work to Mumbai in India.

Council care workers in Southampton picketed six care homes as part of a three-day strike over proposed pay cuts from last Saturday.

Thousands of Rotherham council workers in South Yorkshire could strike in response to the council imposing a single status pay deal.

The strike by quarter of a million civil service workers in the PCS union against job losses on Wednesday of last week had a huge impact.