Over 250 postal workers in Scotland struck last weekend over changes to working practices.
Several hundred construction workers from sites all over Britain protested at the Olympic site in east London last week.
The thousands of workers around the globe employed by the US car parts giant Delphi Corp must hold their breath a little longer.
After more than a month of action, the NUJ work to rule continues at the Daily Record and Sunday Mail in Glasgow.
Industrial action against 18 redundancies proposed by management at the Yorkshire Post and the Yorkshire Evening Post came to a close on Wednesday of last week as the ballot for action expired.
Around 20 workers from the Stead McAlpin factory in Cummersdale, near Carlisle, protested at the John Lewis store in Liverpool city centre last Saturday as part of their jobs fight.
Cleaner Alberto Durango was reported to immigration by his bosses after building a union at his workplace and campaigning for the London living wage.
Eurostar cleaners at St Pancras International station in London have voted overwhelmingly to boycott the fingerprinting machines their bosses have installed to replace clocking on and off machines.
Bosses at the Linamar (former Visteon) plant in Swansea have upheld the sacking of Unite union convenor Rob Williams.
Ford-Visteon workers won a tremendous victory in their struggle for justice last week – but their fight is by no means over.
The British government has been very keen to give the impression that it cares about the appalling plight of Sri Lanka’s Tamils. Following demonstrations outside parliament by thousands of Tamils, foreign secretary David Miliband went to the capital Colombo and called for a ceasefire. Gordon Brown created a new post for Des Browne as "special envoy" to Sri Lanka.
The Gulf between rich and poor is wider after more than a decade of New Labour government than at any point under Margaret Thatcher.
