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More than 500 workers at housing charity St Mungo’s Broadway are being balloted for strikes. 

A series of successful strikes by workers across different unions can boost confidence to take on the Tories—and counter pressure on union leaders to retreat, says Tomáš Tengely-Evans

Some 15 ballots of Unison union members in academy schools all backed strikes—and they will join the local government walkout on 14 October.

Health workers in England are set to walk out on 13 October—and now we have to fight to make it as big as possible and a focus for opposition to the Tories, argues Annette Mackin

Defence Support Group (DSG) workers in the Unite union began a national ballot on Friday of last week for strikes over pay. It is set to close on 3 October.

A struggling A&E in London will have to deal will some 8,000 more patients a year after two neighbouring emergency departments were closed last week.

Over 150 bus workers marched in central London on Thursday of last week in protest at unequal pay and conditions.

Baggage handlers in the Unite union struck at London Heathrow airport on Friday of last week.

Attacks on pay and conditions have created enormous anger among health workers—but union leaders need to do more to build action that can stop them, writes Annette Mackin

Some 13 electricians on a Romford rail site were set to be taken on directly by T Clarke as Socialist Worker went to press. 

Local government and school workers took part in a day of action over pay on Wednesday of last week.

One Housing Group workers in London struck from Friday of last week to Monday of this week, with pickets at the organisation’s headquarters in Camden.