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Local government workers in Scotland have voted by a clear majority to strike to force council chiefs to improve their latest pay offer but there are no plans for action.

More than 1,000 people gathered in Mile End Park in east London this evening, Wednesday, in a fantastic show of opposition to school funding cuts.

There should be no rerun of the Unison union’s 2015 general secretary election that saw Dave Prentis re-elected for a fourth term despite numerous flaws. That was the Assistant Certification Officer (ACO) Mary Stacey ruling this week.

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Scottish TUC deputy general secretary Dave Moxham's call to “challenge the public sector pay freeze” comes as 70,000 council workers ballot for strikes over pay

Around 50 anti-fascists turned out in Brighton to see off French Front National candidate Tony Thommes.

Up to 1,000 protested last Saturday in Southend against Tory plans to cut the local A&E.

The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) announces a “summer of protest” over the Tories’ 1 percent pay cap.

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The union leadership’s failure to produce enough resistance to the Tory assault on the NHS defined Unison’s health conference in Liverpool this week.

As cuts create a massice social care crisis, care workers told Raymie Kiernan the Unison union election is chance to build resistance

We talk about how terrible the crisis in the NHS and social care is, but it’s significantly worse now than it has ever been.