Royal Mail has just announced plans to close Cambridge mail centre and move the work to Peterborough and Chelmsford.
Delegates from older universities were set to meet on Thursday of this week to discuss the next steps in their pensions dispute.
Workers in Sefton, Merseyside, are calling on councillors to resolve their employment status following the opening of a free school.
The National Union of Students (NUS) held its first mobilisation meeting for its national demonstration on the 21 November on Friday of last week in Manchester.
Melbourne sparks lift their blockade Construction workers in Melbourne, Australia, lifted their blockade of a major building site after their boss asked for talks last week.
Hundreds of workers marched through Chesterfield in Derbyshire last Saturday to support Remploy workers fighting for their jobs.
HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) bosses in the civil service have given notice of plans to close of eight onsite nurseries.
The TUC congress saw union leader after union leader get up to pledge coordinated industrial action against austerity.
Teachers in the NUT and NASUWT unions will begin industrial action over pensions, pay and conditions from 26 September. They will refuse to carry out some contractual duties.
The General Medical Council (GMC) has struck off pathologist Freddy Patel after ruling that his "integrity cannot be relied upon".
Susan Alexander has accused police of executing her son, Azelle Rodney, as he sat in a car in Edgware, north London, in April 2005.
There are just five weeks left to organise for the mass demonstration against austerity on 20 October.
