Around 240 workers struck for better wages at eight RAF bases on Thursday of last week. They are members of the Unite and GMB unions employed by ISS to provide food and cleaning services.
Around 50 workers at VIP Polymers in Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire were set to strike on Wednesday of this week. They are members of the GMB union who make rubber seals.
Rail union RMT was holding its annual general meeting in Brighton as Socialist Worker went to press
Lecturers in the UCU union struck at Kirklees College in Huddersfield and in Dewsbury on Thursday of this week.
UCU union members at the University of Liverpool have voted unanimously to ballot for strikes.
Tory education secretary Michael Gove seems to have made a major retreat in his attempts to rewrite the school history curriculum.
Deep anger at austerity and the need for an alternative dominated the annual conference of the Unison union last week.
Ballot papers for strikes went out to 7,000 Unison union members in Kirklees Council last week.
The GMB union could call strikes in several Sheffield schools over threats to sack support workers. The council issued 58 redundancy notices at 19 schools, and wants to downgrade staff at seven more.
Crown Post Office workers are feeling confident after striking for a sixth time last week.
Refuse workers in two south east London councils are set to walk out from Tuesday to Thursday of next week for better pay.
Cityclean Refuse workers in the GMB union have suspended strikes for 28 days to ballot on a new offer.
