A special meeting of councillors in Edinburgh last Thursday voted by 31 to 23 to end plans to privatise a swathe of council services.
The Unison union lobbied Norfolk council together with anti-cuts campaigners on Monday against plans to slash adult social care services.
Three unions were set to strike together on Wednesday of this week at Birmingham’s Montgomery primary school.
Over 70 people attended a public meeting to relaunch Fenlands trades council in Cambridgeshire last Saturday.
Electricians protested in Glasgow, Manchester and London last week.
Bus drivers in South Yorkshire held a mass meeting last Sunday to discuss the next steps in their pay dispute with their employer Stagecoach.
The leaders of Britain’s three largest unions last week denounced Labour’s Ed Miliband and Ed Balls for supporting the Tory austerity agenda.
Unite union members at the Manchester site of IT giant Fujitsu have unanimously voted to accept an offer to settle their long-running dispute.
The RMT union has suspended strikes by rail signalling workers in Glasgow in advance of talks with the Acas conciliation service.
The Tories suffered another setback to their brutal Welfare Reform Bill this Monday.
People from across Leicester joined a public meeting to organise opposition to the English Defence League (EDL) last Saturday.
The Defend the Right to Protest campaign has called a demonstration outside Wandsworth prison in solidarity with those inside.
