Teachers at five schools in Tamworth, Staffordshire, are set to strike on Wednesday of this week.
Anti-fascist activists have been out in force over the last few days campaigning to stop the British National Party (BNP) making gains in the European elections on 4 June.
Penny Gower, a longstanding activist of the EIS Scottish teachers union, has been summarily dismissed from her job at Carnegie College.
Community service supervisors employed by Glasgow council are now in their fifth month of indefinite strike action over regrading.
The group conferences of the PCS civil service workers’ union this week recognised that the government’s promises on pay, made at the end of a national pay campaign last year, have not been fulfilled.
The Russian crew of the freighter OMG Kolpino have now been marooned in Avonmouth docks for over two months.
Around 60 people attended a Greater Manchester Stop the War Coalition public hearing last week held in response to the G20 policing and the arrest and detention of Pakistani students.
Campaigners against police violence are planning to "kettle" Scotland Yard this Saturday—turning on its head the police’s tactics of surrounding demonstrators and not allowing people to leave.
The Fire Brigades Union (FBU) conference took place in Scarborough last week.
London ballot Some 10,000 members of the RMT transport union across London Underground and Transport for London are reballoting for strike action over job cuts, pay and management’s breaches of disciplinary and attendance agreement.
Three suspended teachers’ union reps at Copland community college in Wembley won an important victory last week when they were reinstated and all charges against them were dropped.
