RMT union members on Wilts and Dorset buses have voted by 70 percent to strike against the company’s attacks on their terms and conditions.
Protesters occupied the offices of the Liverpool Mutual Homes (LMH) housing association on Thursday of last week, in opposition to the Tories’ planned bedroom tax.
The National Union of Journalists has called a strike across the BBC for Monday of next week.
More than 80 percent of journalists in a ballot at the Observer and Guardian newspapers have voted for strikes.
The rail workers’ RMT union was set to hold a commemorative rally on Friday of this week for the 2004 Tebay rail disaster.
Some 250,000 PCS union members in the civil service are voting in a strike ballot over government attacks on their pay, conditions and pensions.
The chair of bailed out Bank of Scotland claimed this week that boss Stephen Hester’s £1.1 million salary and £6 million annual bonus was "modest".
The Court of Appeal has ruled that a government scheme to force people to work for free or lose benefits is illegal.
The government moved closer to holding secret courts last week.
The UK’s biggest energy firms got more than 15,000 complaints a day in the last three months of last year.
More people in Britain support abortion rights, according to a YouGove poll. It found that the number who backed a ban on abortion dropped from 12 percent in 2005 to 7 percent.
There was a lively protest outside Gladstone Park primary school in west London at home time on Friday of last week.
