Transport workers in London are still fighting for payments to cover the extra work they will face over the Olympics period.
Drivers on the Heathrow Express mounted a second 24-hour strike last Sunday. They are protesting at the sacking of a driver and the victimisation of their RMT union rep.
Cleaning and catering workers at Great Western hospital in Swindon struck for five days from Thursday of last week.
Activists gathered at the Greek embassy in London last Saturday to show solidarity with the Greek workers’ movement.
Over 100 delegates representing 21 trade unions and four trades councils met at the north west TUC conference in Liverpool last Saturday.
Sally Hunt, general secretary of the lecturers’ UCU union, has begun a survey of members over constitutional changes to the union.
A lecturer at Angus College who was suspended after complaining about a sexist event has been reinstated.
The NUT union has called off a planned strike after employers threatened a legal challenge to the ballot.
Some 250,000 children could be plunged deeper into poverty by the government’s welfare reforms.
Film director Ken Loach is backing the Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition (Tusc) in May’s London Assembly elections.
Around 200 people gathered last Saturday for a rally against the construction of private Olympic facilities on Leyton Marsh in east London.
Supporters of Keep Our NHS Public in Nottingham gathered on Saturday to hand over 500 signed postcards opposing the health bill to local Tory MP Anna Soubry.
