Union members at Southampton council were set to decide the next steps for their campaign of strikes as Socialist Worker went to press.
Some 93 percent of Unison members at North East Lincolnshire council have voted for industrial action in an indicative ballot.
Unison is balloting its health and education members in Northern Ireland for strikes against cuts.
The number of people who are working age and jobless in Britain has soared by nearly 100,000 since David Cameron came to office.
Youth workers at Oxfordshire county council struck on Tuesday against wholesale job cuts and a huge threat to the services they provide.
Journalists in South Yorkshire have entered their fifth week of an all-out strike.
Clara Osagiede, a union rep for cleaners on London Underground, is continuing her fight against victimisation.
The TSSA transport union called off planned strikes at Network Rail this bank holiday weekend after the firm agreed to discuss an equal pay audit among managerial staff.
Firefighters and civil service workers are joining forces in Liverpool to fight the cuts.
PCS union reps from call centres met last week to discuss an "interim agreement" on the long‑running dispute over working conditions.
An Employment Tribunal into the case of the sacked Fujitsu Unite union rep Alan Jenney is set to be held in Stoke-on-Trent on Thursday of this week.
The UK Border Agency (UKBA) has agreed to look again at the case of journalist James Fallah-Williams who is fighting deportation to Sierra Leone.
