Unison members at two South Buckinghamshire hospitals have voted overwhelmingly in favour of strikes in a dispute over pay and conditions.
Workers at the Heinz Kitt Green site in Wigan have voted overwhelmingly to strike over pay. The 1,200 members of the Unite union are now set to strike for 24 hours from 10pm on Wednesday of next week.
Around 1,500 campaigners marched through central London last Saturday to call on the government to take action on climate change.
Teachers at Villiers high school in Southall, west London, were set to strike on Wednesday of this week.
Workers at energy provider National Grid are to be balloted for industrial action over pay.
Lecturers at Dundee University have started a ballot for industrial action against 193 job cuts.
Members of the RMT union at Manchester’s local operator Northern Rail are balloting to strike over pay, in a dispute that could hit Christmas services.
Activists on Merseyside are set to march against cuts this Saturday.
The wave of protests against the cuts has reached new heights of militancy and size.
In Scotland, the chances of coordinated strikes across the public sector have taken a significant step forward.
Anti-cuts campaigners descended on high street shops across Britain last Saturday, calling on fat cat bosses to pay their taxes.
In a sign of the disastrous impact Islamophobic ideas can have, arsonists attempted to burn down a mosque in Stoke-on-Trent on Friday of last week.
