Angry chants rang through the streets of Levenshulme, south Manchester, on Sunday as a march against cuts wound its way to the threatened library and Arcadia sports facility.
Members of the Unite union face their second national ballot of the year, this time over the future of the union’s political fund.
London Underground train drivers on the Piccadilly line are set to ballot for strikes from Thursday of this week.
STUC conference called for “an industrial action strategy, including a Scotland-wide one day strike, aligned with any industrial action at a UK level as appropriate”.
Kiln burners at Hanson Brick near Peterborough have entered their third week of indefinite strike.
Some 55 trade unionists and campaigners came to a East Midlands Unite the Resistance launch rally in Leicester last Saturday.
BBC tour guides struck for 12 hours on Tuesday against a 17 percent pay cut.
MPs voted without a debate to scrap the last of the wages boards on Tuesday of last week. The Agricultural Wages Board is now set to be abolished on 1 October.
A protester has won compensation from Essex Police after being arrested and held for hours with no access to water or a toilet.
Some 350 workers at the Molson Coors brewery in Burton-upon-Trent, Staffordshire, are to be balloted for strikes from next Tuesday.
Teachers were set to rally in Liverpool and Manchester on Saturday of this week. The action is part of a joint campaign by the NUT and NASUWT unions to defend teachers’ pay, pensions and conditions.
Some 60 teachers and students attended the first seminar of the Defend School History campaign last Saturday.
