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Several groups of workers are refusing to put their struggles to one side in the run-up to the general election and are holding successful strikes.

Also: Strikes at Fujitsu | May Day walkout at Picturehouse | Ballots at Cemex and Hinckley Point | Woolwich ferry action suspended | Climate protest against Trump | Janitors strike | 70,000 to vote | delay in Kirklees

Len McCluskey has been re-elected general secretary of the Unite union, it was announced on Friday.

Workers mounted a solid picket line outside the Mini car factory in Cowley, Oxfordshire, on Thursday. It was the first in a round of coordinated walkouts by Unite union members against BMW bosses’ plans to rob up to 6,000 workers of their pensions. 

More coordinated rail strikes to defend the role of the train guard have been announced by the RMT rail union.

Includes short reports from the latest strikes in manufacturing, IT services, higher education, local government, plus news from abortion rights, housing and climate change campaigns

Low paid migrant workers at an east London hospital have beat back privatising bosses with unofficial action. Now they’re raring to fight for more.

As Unite union members vote in a leadership election dominated by debate about the Labour Party, the Tories are using the military to break strikes.

British Airways (BA) “mixed fleet” cabin crew have voted resoundingly to strike in a second ballot.

BMW workers are gearing up for a pensions fight, workers are rallying over civil service pay, Lambeth libraries are facing attacks and Unison union NEC voting opens

As the Unite general secretary election gets underway, Dave Sewell looks at the politics behind the battle for Britain’s biggest union

Fujitsu IT services workers struck last Friday and again on Monday to defend their jobs and livelihoods from the firm’s cost-cutting.