Some 550 TV licensing workers struck on Monday of this week at Capita in Bristol and Darwen, Lancashire.
The Unite union is balloting its members in higher education for industrial action over pay.
Lecturers at Barnsley College were set to meet on Wednesday of this week to discuss the next moves in their ongoing dispute.
NUT and NASUWT union members struck at Kingswinford School in Dudley on Tuesday of this week, against plans to turn the school into an academy.
The PCS union’s Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) group executive committee met on Friday of last week to consider calling further strikes in the long-running dispute over call centre workers.
Workers in the Unite union at Wyndeham Roche in St Austell, Cornwall, could be next in line for severe pay cuts, as bosses begin a 90-day consultation over cost-cutting.
Tory defence secretary Liam Fox managed to hang on for a week over revelations of the extraordinary access he gave to his friend Adam Werritty.
Atlantic Bridge, Liam Fox’s now wound-up "charity", counted top Tories George Osborne, William Hague and Michael Gove among its advisory board.
Over a million people across the world took to the streets this week to protest against poverty, inequality and economic injustice.
Adam Werritty gets cash to travel the world from a number of donors. Liam Fox has had a particular interest in Sri Lanka. He has been involved with the Sri Lankan Development Fund, which was wound up in 1999.
The government’s proposals to smash the NHS and leave the scraps for private companies were pushed through by the House of Lords on Wednesday of last week.
Liam Fox resigned as Tory defence minister last week as the reality of corporations’ corrupt influence inside the government was revealed.
