Scotland
Wildcat strikes hit Plymouth and Falkirk
Workers at a new nuclear power station in Plymouth and coach builders Alexander Dennis in Falkirk were both on wildcat strike this week.
Sixteen staff were laid off from the Langage power station construction site near Plymouth, and picketed the site on Thursday morning, bringing 350 workers out in support by shift start.
Scottish council workers set strike date
150,000 Scottish council employees in Unison, Unite and the GMB have set a date for their strike action over a sub-inflation pay offer which would see schools shut, rubbish uncollected and other frontline services hit.
They overwhelmingly agreed on Thursday to take strike action on 20th August after the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities (Cosla) refused to improve a pay offer of 2.5 per cent a year for the next three years.
Scottish civil servants vote for strike over pay
Scottish civil servants have backed strike action in protest of the government's sub-inflation pay offer.
The PCS union expressed anger that the Scottish Government had proposed to cap pay rises at 2%. Three other public sector unions - Unison, Unite and the GMB - have also balloted for action over pay.
Union bosses claimed industrial action could hit policy delivery, ministerial visits, answers to Scottish parliamentary questions and operations at the Registers of Scotland.
Glasgow bin workers in wildcat strike
170 bin workers in Glasgow took part in wildcat strike action last Friday 23rd May.
The action disrupted both refuse and recycling collections throughout the city affecting 15,000 households. Workers at the Queenslie and Eastern depots took the un-official action, claiming the council had failed to meet overtime payments of up to £4000.
Council workers to vote on action
UNISON members in local government in England, Wales and Northern Ireland will vote on strike action to begin in July, while teachers discuss co-ordinated action.
UNISON members were given the green light for a ballot on industrial action after rejecting the pay offer from employers.
The offer is below the current inflation rate of 4.2% and less that the increase in average earnings across the economy.
Council workers to ballot for strike action
UNISON members working in local government in England, Wales and Northern Ireland have been given the green light for a ballot on industrial action after rejecting the pay offer from employers.
The offer is for a 2.45% increase, with an additional £100 flat rate increase on the very lowest three scale points.
Panic at oil pensions strike
Workers at the Grangemouth Ineos plant will strike for two days from Sunday and will shut down the Forties pipeline, which provides a third of the UK's daily oil output.
The government is warning consumers not to panic, as panic-buying of petrol has begun.
The strike of Unite members is against attacks on pensions, including closing the scheme to new entrants.
More information from Unite here.
Anarchism in 1940s Glasgow
Two interviews with veterans of the anarchist scene in 1940s Glasgow.
Edinburgh rail workers in wildcat strike
Rail signallers in Edinburgh went on wildcat strike, bringing the station to a standstill for an hour on Monday.
The action at Edinburgh's Waverly station was taken in a dispute over the provision of cover for breaks. David Simpson, of Network Rail in Scotland, said the "deliberately disruptive, unprovoked action" was "completely unacceptable".
Ian MacIntyre, the RMT's regional organiser for Scotland, was reported as saying: "Our members took the action in the interests of safety.
Cuts resurrected for Edinburgh schools
The latest drive to improve education by New Labour got off to a bad start after Edinburgh city council set up a cross-party group to decide which schools get closed in 2008.
The renewed threat of closures resurrects a plan which local people had believed to be over when a community campaign overturned the proposed closure of 22 schools and four community centres in the city last year.
