Hundreds of adult social care workers at Lincolnshire county council were set to begin a work-to-rule on Wednesday of this week.
Council workers in Southampton are planning industrial action as the council issues a threat of mass sackings.
Social workers at Glasgow City Council are balloting for strikes over a threat to privatise them. The 34 asylum support service workers are threatened with transfer to contractor YPeople.
Len McCluskey, general secretary of the Unite union, says he has held "positive" talks with new British Airways (BA) boss Keith Williams.
Unite, Britain’s biggest union, will hold key elections from Friday of next week.
Housing activists and tenants are campaigning for a "No" vote in a tenant ballot on the sell-off of 6,000 council homes in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire.
The Ucatt union has to rerun its 2009 leadership race.
Brian Kelly stood as the Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition candidate in the Brunswick Park council by‑election in south London.
Some 5,000 people marched on the Lib Dems' spring conference in Sheffield on Saturday.
University lecturers in the UCU union have voted for strikes to defend their jobs, pensions and pay. The first strikes are set to take place on Thursday of next week.
