The first strike in the Church of England’s history took place on Friday of last week.
Former workers at the Ford-Visteon car parts firm are to demonstrate at parliament on Wednesday 31 March.
Defend Council Housing (DCH) was to launch a manifesto, putting the case for council housing to election candidates, at its conference this week.
Edinburgh Over 50 people came to a Right to Work meeting to discuss fighting cuts and defending public services. Speakers included Jim Malone, FBU union regional organiser, Cheryl Gedling, PCS national executive, Liz Rawling, president of Edinburgh University Student Association, and Michael Hogg, RMT union regional organiser.
Nearly 300 delegates from over 30 trade unions met at the annual TUC women’s conference last week.
Lewisham Teachers in the NUT union struck on Tuesday of last week at Northbrook secondary school in Lewisham, south east London.
Sheffield Around 30 people joined leafleting in Burngreave, Sheffield, where Maxine Bowler is standing against Labour MP David Blunkett.
The anonymous accusers of sacked nurse Yunus Bakhsh were finally revealed at an employment tribunal last week. It is more than three years since they gave evidence that was important in the case against Yunus.
Workers at the Notting Hill Housing Group in London struck on Monday for the first time in over 15 years.
Post workers are debating a deal between their union leaders and Royal Mail to end the long running dispute over jobs, pay and conditions.
Hundreds of Sussex University students were defying management threats as Socialist Worker went to press.
Up to 150 activists came to the Campaign Against Climate Change (CACC) trade union conference last Saturday.
