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Strike against pay cuts at Northern General Hospital Bulk stores workers, who are members of the Unison union, at Northern General Hospital in Sheffield took their third day of strike action on Monday against a planned 20 percent pay cut.

Health workers in Unison, the biggest NHS union, are voting on whether to accept a revised offer from the government – a revision so small that the Nursing Times magazine suggested that it might just buy a nurse a pair of shorts on eBay!

Last week some 50 people attended a lively protest outside Newham town Hall in east London over the council’s attacks on the Unison branch chair Michael Gavan.

The government’s recent "improvement" to the pay offer to health workers in England is being greeted with widespread derision and dismay – particularly in Unison, the largest union in the NHS.

Health workers in Manchester have delivered a stinging rebuke to their management by voting by almost 90 percent to take strike action to defend suspended nurse and Unison union activist Karen Reissmann.

Almost 8,000 council workers in the Unison union in Edinburgh are set to strike on Thursday of this week in a clash with the Liberal/SNP coalition council over proposed budget cuts and the threat of compulsory redundancies.

The Manchester Mental Health branch Unison vote on action in defence of activist Karen Reissmann has seen a stunning 87.3 percent yes for strike action, on a 47 percent turnout. The first strikes likely to be bewtween Wednesday 29 August and Friday 31 August. There is also a demonstration called for Sunday 9 September.

Today Manchester Mental Health and Social Care Trust agreed to increase staffing levels on new community mental health teams. Unison union members claimed this as a massive victory, since staff on the teams were due to be cut from tomorrow, Thursday 16 August.

Workers at Newham council in east London have reacted with fury after the Labour-run council launched an attack on the Unison union.

The battle to defend Karen Reissmann, a leading Unison health union activist who has been suspended from her job as a psychiatric nurse, reaches a crucial point this week.

Three weeks of indefinite strike action by 600 social care workers in the Unison union in Glasgow have won concessions over regrading from the New Labour-run council.

Newham Council has launched on an attack on the Unison Union. Michael Gavan, Unison branch chair has been suspended by the council and banned from any contact with union members.