David Willetts, the multi-millionaire minister cutting access to higher education for the poorest, spoke at Portsmouth university debating society last Friday.
The Unite union has stepped up its campaign to win a £500 Olympic games bonus payment for 28,000 bus workers in London.
The RMT union has settled a dispute at the West of Scotland train signalling centre in Glasgow.
Over 150 delegates and observers attended Stop the War Coalition’s annual conference last Saturday.
Members of the Scottish EIS teachers union are voting to elect their vice president. In recent years no-one has challenged the leadership candidate.
Sally Hunt was re-elected general secretary of the UCU lecturers’ union last week by a comfortable margin.
Sixth form college teachers in the NUT union outside London are set to strike for half a day on Thursday of next week over funding cuts and pay.
Biennial elections for the National Union of Teachers national executive run from 7 March to 28 March.
Around 20 workers in the Unite union protested on Thursday of last week outside the plush London hotel where the Housing Innovation Awards were being held.
An employment appeal tribunal has ruled in favour of four Socialist Party members who were barred from holding office in the Unison union.
Over 200 people came to a Defend the Right to Protest public forum on Monday of this week. The London meeting was organised to raise solidarity for imprisoned student protesters.
Anti-workfare campaigners forced the Tories into an embarrassing climbdown last week. The government was pushed into promising it would remove all mandatory aspects of its "workfare" scheme.
