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Unison union members delivered an overwhelming vote for strikes today, Thursday.

Vik Chechi, the Unison union branch secretary at London’s Queen Mary University, was suspended from work last week.

Stop this race to the bottom Leicester City Unison held a rally to launch the ballot on Wednesday.

Almost a million women will begin voting in the Unison union’s huge strike ballot this week. They are part of a growing army of women workers who are getting ready to take on the Tories.

Nominations have opened in the by-election for the Unison union’s national executive.

Ballot papers will go out to over a million members of the Unison union this week.

Workers at Middlesex university, north London, struck on Tuesday of this week in protest at planned job cuts. The action involved workers in both the UCU and Unison unions at the university.

Stow college Workers at Stow college in Glasgow walked out on Monday in a strike against low pay. Over 60 Unison union members picketed the college. They included support workers, admin staff, caretakers and caterers.

Dave Prentis, general secretary of the Unison union, addressed a meeting of the National Pensioners’ Convention last week.

Unison general secretary Dave Prentis set the Labour Party conference alight on Monday, winning an unexpected standing ovation.

Notts Unison members protested outside the council against the proposed sale of six elderly persons’ homes to the private sector. The Runwood organisation which has bought the homes only has to commit to keep them as homes for three years.

The prospect of a massive strike by public sector workers in the autumn took another step forwards yesterday (Wednesday).