Disputes and Campaigns
Ford Southampton
Click here for reports on the campaign to keep Ford Transit production in Southampton
Victimised trade unionists
Click here for details of trade unionists who face victimisation forcarrying out their duties
Shrewsbury Defence Camapign Public Meeting
27 October 2008 at the Welsh Club, Gray's Inn Road, London WC1 at 7.30 pm. Click here for details.
Tony Staunton
Click here for information about Tony Staunton's expulsion from Unison and here to read an appeal by the Friends of Tony Staunton
Yunus Bakhsh
Psychiatric nurse Yunus Bakhsh has been sacked by the NHS trust he works for in the North East. Click here for the leaflet of the Defend Yunus Bakhsh campaign.
Defend the Unison 4
Support the campaign to defend the four UNISON branch officers facing unjust disciplinary charges from their union. Click here for further information.
Clean Coal technology
Click here to read a proposal by prominent and long-standing NUM activist Dave Douglass
Families Against Corporate Killers
Click here for information on Vigil for Zbigniew Swirzynski
CWU
The Communication Workers Union has appealed for financial support for the six activists sacked from Burslem office. Read details here for this and other CWU stories, including "Support the Bristol 3" and reports of possible strike action if plans to shut Coventry sorting office go ahead.
Unite
London busworkers are developing their campaign for equal pay across the capital's bus companies. Click here for a report on the first day of strike action.
RMT
Click here for news of disputes on the London Underground, and here for victimisation of Metronet worker Andy Littlechild.
Click here for other RMT news, and here for the campaign to keep the Tyne & Wear Metro public.
Scottish local government
Scottish local government workers struck over wages on 20 September. Click here for local reports.
Unison/Unite action 16 & 17 July 2008
Click here for local reports and pictures of the first two days of action.
Reinstate Karen Reissmann
Elected UNISON official and psychiatric nurse Karen Reissmann was sacked for speaking out about cuts in Manchester's mental health services. Click here for reports on the campaign to win her re-instatement, plus news of the dramatic resignation of the chief executive of the Mental Health and Social Care Trust who sacked her.
State Pension Centenary
The National Pensioners' Convention celebrates 100 years of the state pension and campaigns to defend it as a right and as the mainstay of life after work. Click here for more information on the Battle for the State Pension and here for details of the NPC Women's Working Party Conference "100 Years of Women's Pensions: For Better or for Worse; For richer or for Poorer? Saturday 27 September at Congress House, Great Russell Street, London
Foreign news
Mainly women workers at auto part manufacturers Pricol in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India, are waging a militant and sustained struggle for basic rights and decent wages and conditions. Click here for report and pictures.
National Union of Teachers
10,000 striking teachers, college lecturers, civil servants and Shelter employees marched through London on Thursday 24 April. Opposition to the government-imposed limits on pay increases was a major common theme. for pictures, click here
Ricky Jones
Ricky Jones is one of the most respected trade unionists in Hackney and Unison convenor for Education in Hackney. His position as resident caretaker in William Patten school (where he has worked for ten years) has been made redundant, making Ricky, his wife and two children homeless. For details of the Hackney Trades Council campaign to support Ricky Jones, click here.
Workers Memorial Day 28 April
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for pictures of the day's activities in London