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Cleaners employed by Mitie at Manchester airport struck for the second time in a month on Friday of last week, against a £90 a month pay cut.

Bus drivers in the Unite union working for Bus Vannin on the Isle of Man began a 12-day strike on Saturday of last week. They are fighting wage cuts of up to £3,000 per year.

Some 500 Yorkshire Ambulance Service workers in Unite union were set to strike again from noon to midnight on Friday of next week. 

 

Members of the Unite union have launched a new organisation, Unite Fight Back, to help build networks of solidarity at the base of the union.

Unite members have voted to retain the union’s political fund. Of those voting, 87.4 percent wanted to keep the fund. The turnout was 18.6 percent of the union’s 1.3 million members.

Around 200 workers in the Unison and Unite unions from South Gloucestershire council protested last week against attacks on their conditions. 

Workers at the Molson Coors brewery in Burton-on-Trent are expected to vote for strikes this week.

Bosses of 2 Sisters Food Group have begun consultation to close the five West Midlands sites where more than 1,200 workers struck in December of last year. It was a solid action with hundreds on picket lines.

A protester against the blacklist was still in hospital with two broken legs as Socialist Worker went to press.

Around 40 workers came to a national meeting of rank and file construction workers in Liverpool last Saturday.

Unite union members from across Britain were set to meet in London on Saturday of this week following the union’s recent general secretary election.