Some 2,000 GMB union members at Nottingham City Council have voted by six to one for industrial action in an indicative ballot over pay.
Transport workers in Manchester are to ballot for strikes against compulsory redundancies. One in seven of the Unison members at Transport for Greater Manchester—formerly GMPTE—face losing their jobs.
The Scottish Council of the Unison union has backed the call for a general strike.
Nine Journalists at North London & Herts Newspapers started a two week strike on Tuesday.
Cameroonian journalist Charles Atangana has won his campaign to remain in Britain.
Revenue & Customs vote for strikes PCS civil service workers’ union members in the Revenue and Customs department have voted for strikes over imposed changes to attendance policy.
The Unite union will not call strikes at British Airways (BA) this month, it has announced. It has agreed to continue talks with BA bosses instead.
The fight of some 400 construction workers who are locked out at Saltend in Hull, Yorkshire, is at a crucial point.
The National Union of Students (NUS) last week held its first national conference since the explosive student protests of November and December.
The inquest into the death of Ian Tomlinson, the newspaper seller who died after being shoved by PC Harwood at G20 demonstrations in April 2009, continued last week.
The high court ruled last week that the police tactic of "kettling" was unlawful during the G20 demonstrations.
A national strike by around 7,000 call centre workers on Monday, demanding better conditions and public services, was a big success.
