Lecturers at Croydon College were set to strike for two hours on Wednesday of this week. Workers are fighting compulsory redundancies.
UCU senior branch officers met on Friday of last week to outline a plan for industrial action. Ballot results for action in defence of the USS pension scheme are expected on Wednesday.
The TUC committed itself to resisting attempts to attack trade union rights.
The Scottish Defence League (SDL)—an offshoot of the racist EDL—was run out of Edinburgh last Saturday by a counter-protest of around 400 people organised by Unite Against Fascism (UAF).
The TUC denounced David Cameron’s attacks on multiculturalism.
Unions unanimously voted for journalists to be covered by a legally binding "conscience clause", following the phone hacking scandal at the News of the World.
Delegates at the TUC conference discussed the riots that swept Britain last month.
New reports from the TUC show growing inequality and steep falls in workers’ living standards.
Top bosses are grabbing millions in pensions while workers face savage cuts that will leave them in poverty.
A hospital that David Cameron vowed to save while in opposition is set to lose its A&E and maternity units.
The Tories promised this week not to touch bank regulation until 2019.
Tory MP Nadine Dorries’ attempt to push back abortion rights was decisively defeated in parliament last week.
