Firefighters in Merseyside are balloting for industrial action over planned cuts.
Talks between the Unite union and the Fujitsu Services IT company to resolve the long-running dispute over jobs, pay and pensions ended last week with the company making a new offer.
Teachers at Islington Arts and Media School in north London last week asked their NUT union to ballot them for industrial action if management doesn’t agree that teachers should only "rarely" be asked to cover for absent colleagues.
Teachers at Weston Favell school in Northampton struck on Thursday of last week in protest at plans to turn the school into an academy.
Further Education pay The UCU union’s further education committee (FEC) heard how devastating cuts of up to £340 million are due to hit the sector at its meeting on Friday of last week.
Bosses at Royal Mail appear to be following their blueprint for slashing thousands of jobs next year by doing all they can to put off strikes before Christmas.
Signal workers Signalling staff in the Wales and the Marches area are set to strike for six days next week against the imposition of rosters at the South Wales Control Centre that is due to open in January.
Two Tory-run councils are preparing to sack workers who don’t sign up for new contracts involving drastic pay cuts for many of their lowest paid staff.
Seven hundred anti-racists and anti-fascists stopped the Nazi thugs of the English Defence League (EDL) from marching through Nottingham city centre last Saturday.
Workers are told that the recession is easing and things are getting better, but still hardly a week goes by without job cuts.
"You can never get away from the stress. You take it home with you," says Shaad, a driver with First Bus in London. "And it is not just you who is affected – your whole family suffers."
