Some 5,000 workers balloting at Doncaster council got an extra reason to vote yes this week as bosses announced another 700 job cuts.
The Unison union may ballot council workers in Cumbria for industrial action over "single status" pay cuts.
Unison is "putting the organisation in place" to ballot for industrial action over pensions, it announced ahead of its annual conference next week.
The "Arab Spring" should be called the "African Awakening", said Firoze Manji at the opening session of Africa: Exploitation and Resistance last Saturday.
Over 200 activists met last Saturday at a conference on the "war on terror" organised by the Stop the War Coalition as the tenth anniversary of the Afghanistan war approaches.
Tube drivers on London Underground are the latest group of workers planning to strike on 30 June.
Attempts by English Defence League (EDL) thugs to rampage through Dewsbury last Saturday failed.
Some 500,000 construction workers have won a pay increase following negotiations between the Ucatt, Unite and GMB unions and the Construction Industry Joint Council (CIJC).
Journalists at Newsquest in South London are set to strike on Wednesday and Thursday of this week over redundancies.
Hundreds of thousands of public sector workers plan to walk out together on 30 June after winning big strike votes.
PCS members who administer the My Civil Service Pension (MyCSP) scheme are fighting to save it from backdoor privatisation.
Unite union members at the Fujitsu IT company in Crewe are balloting for strikes in defence of local trade union activist Alan Jenney.
