Jason Poulter, a Unite union health and safety rep who had been suspended from work for six weeks, has been reinstated.
PCS members in the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) were set begin a three-day strike across Merseyside and Halton job centres from Wednesday of this week.
NHS workers in the Unite and Unison unions were set to strike on Wednesday of this week at Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health Trust against plans to slash pay.
Respect Party activists and others are occupying an abandoned construction site in Bradford to protest over it being left empty for a decade.
Baggage handlers put their case Swissport baggage handlers at Stansted airport struck for all four days of the long weekend last week. The workers, in the Unite and GMB unions, are fighting plans to make them work 14 extra days a year with no extra pay.
Local government employees could be forced to work until 67 or later after union leaders and council bosses announced a rotten proposal last week.
Teachers are demanding their union sticks to a decision to strike over pensions this month.
Lecturers in the UCU union will discuss the next steps in their pensions campaign at their annual congress in Manchester this weekend.
Unions in Sheffield are determined to make the TUC anti-austerity march in October a massive show of strength.
All the possibilities and problems of Egypt’s revolution have been plain to see in Tahrir Square this week.
A group of unemployed people slept on the streets last weekend before being coerced into working for free—at the queen’s jubilee.
