Lecturers at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh began boycotting a new performance appraisal scheme on Monday of this week.
Lecturers are voting to elect representatives to national officer positions in the UCU and to the union’s national executive committee (NEC) and Scottish executive committee (SEC).
The UCU is holding national strike ballots to defend jobs, pay and pensions.
Protesters transformed high street bank branches across Britain into creches, libraries, hospitals, homeless shelters and drama clubs last Saturday.
A solid strike by train drivers at Arriva Trains Wales had a big impact as hundreds of services were cancelled on Monday.
Cabin crew at British Airways (BA) have begun voting in a new strike ballot in their lengthy dispute with BA bosses. The ballot will end on 28 March.
Some 11,000 workers at the car giant Ford may be balloted for industrial action to stop attacks on their pension scheme.
Teachers at John Port school in Etwall, Derbyshire, began a three-day strike on Tuesday of this week.
The national executive committee of the NUT teachers’ union met last week and agreed to launch an action timetable against the government’s pension reforms at its annual conference, which begins on 22 April.
Suspended teacher Sue Caldwell is due to attend a hearing on Friday of next week.
Health workers in London have called a "Day X for the NHS" in response to growing NHS job losses and cuts.
