People flocked from all over Scotland to join the first conference of the All Scotland Anti-Bedroom Tax Federation in Glasgow last Saturday.
New campaigns against the bedroom tax and benefit cuts are springing up across Britain.
Around 350 people protested against cuts and the bedroom tax in Middlesbrough last Saturday.
A legal battle between disability activists and the government has revealed plans to slash up to £320 million of support to severely disabled people.
Some 2,600 workers at the charity Turning Point struck on Friday of last week. Around 40 workers in the Unison union picketed its headquarters in Manchester.
The PCS union’s Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) group executive last week discussed the next steps in its campaign of industrial action over pay, pensions and attacks on working conditions.
The campaign to stop the closure of 12 London fire stations continued this week.
Hundreds of anti-war protesters marched from Lincoln to RAF Waddington last Saturday.
RMT Train managers at First Great Western in Swansea struck over a victimisation on Friday of last week.
Workers at Heathrow airport employed by Menzies World Cargo are set to ballot for strikes over pay.
Some 300 people attended a performance of the Ragged Trousered Philanthropists put on by Notts TUC at the City’s Arts Theatre last Saturday.
The Unison union is holding elections to its national executive committee.
