Strike dates: Fire Brigades Union calls eight days of strike in Merseyside control room
Fire control staff in Merseyside are to take eight consecutive days of strike action from 27 December in a dispute over shifts and conditions. Control staff delivered an overwhelming mandate…
Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency workers to take strike action
Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) members working for the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) across England, Wales and Scotland have overwhelmingly voted to take industrial action in a…
Fran Heathcote elected general secretary of PCS
The Public and Commercial Services (PCS) union has elected Fran Heathcote as its next general secretary. Heathcote will succeed Mark Serwotka in the role and become the union's first ever…
Labour could have blocked the government’s latest anti-union laws. They chose not to.
Unions and their members woke this morning in a new world, one in which the “hostile environment” for their collective work, the already highly restrictive framework of laws in place…
Whitehall workers win 8% pay rise
Workers in three major government departments have won a pay rise of up to 8 per cent. The workers - represented by the PCS union - have called off planned…
Strike dates: Government workers to walk out for 36 days
Around 100 workers at the Department for Energy Security & Net Zero, the Department for Business & Trade, and the Department for Science, Innovation & Technology are set to take…
Shipping firms are profiting from labour abuse in Bangladesh, NGOs claim
European shipping firms are knowingly sending their end-of-live ships for scrap in dangerous and polluting yards in Bangladesh, NGOs have claimed. A new report from Human Rights Watch and Shipbreaking…
Strike dates: NUJ to ballot for industrial action over compulsory redundancies at the BBC
The National Union of Journalists (NUJ) has voted to begin balloting all members at the BBC for industrial action in opposition to any compulsory redundancies. Presently, NUJ members are facing…
Retail union calls for action as inflation continues to outstrip wages
The most recent inflation figures show that inflation continues to outstrip increases in incomes, with the Retail Prices Index (RPI) and Consumer Prices Index (CPI) standing at per cent and…
House of Commons security guards balloted for strike action
Security guards at the House of Commons are to be balloted for strike action in a dispute over shift patterns. According to the PCS union - which represents the workers…