The Tories made much of "taking millions out of tax" as a result of plans to increase the personal tax allowance to £9,205 in 2013.
Around 1,000 people marched on the Scottish Tory party conference in Troon last Saturday.
Talks between the RMT union and London Underground over Olympic bonus payments for tube staff have broken down.
Workers in the Department for Work and Pensions Mersey District Services Directorate are set to strike for three hours on Friday.
Outsourced traffic wardens in Ealing have begun a five-day strike this week to win the reinstatement of sacked union rep Parveen Bhardwaj.
Teachers and support workers in Walthamstow, east London, employed by private firm Babcock struck on Wednesday of last week.
Teachers at Downhills primary school in north London have voted in an indicative strike ballot over plans to force their school to become an academy.
Teachers in the NUT at the BSix sixth form college in Hackney, east London, are balloting for strikes in defence of union rep James Drummond, who is facing disciplinary action. An indicative ballot recently saw a resounding vote for strikes over the issue.
Library workers in the Cheshire West and Chester council area struck on Saturday of last week. They were set to walk out again this Saturday.
Around 100 people joined a protest outside the Bristol Royal Infirmary (BRI) on Thursday of last week. It was called in 24 hours after news that the Health and Social Care Bill had been passed.
Teachers and lecturers across London were set to strike on Wednesday of this week.
The retreat by union leaders has not helped the dispute. But the fight isn’t all over either.
