Supporters of the People Before Profit Charter held a meeting in Merthyr Tydfil, south Wales on Wednesday of last week over job losses.
"Public sector workers: brace yourselves for the pay squeeze", a headline in the Financial Times newspaper warned recently.
Unison union stewards in East North East Homes Leeds (ENEHL), voted overwhelmingly to resume industrial action in January, in a dispute over trade union rights and the victimisation of union activist John McDermott.
Around 100 low paid workers at the Chemilines pharmaceuticals company in Wembley, north west London, are set to strike over wages on Tuesday of this week.
Recent changes in the licensing laws for lap dancing clubs should be welcomed, albeit cautiously. The clubs have been reclassified as "sex encounter establishments" and can no longer pretend to be simply a cafe or a restaurant.
Anyone who hoped that the recent international climate treaty meeting in Poznan, Poland, would come up with a solution to climate change will be severely disappointed.
The anger that exploded in Greece following the police killing of 15 year old Alexandros Grigoropoulos is still raging.
"I was terrified – I thought that I was going to be shot like Jean Charles De Menezes."
Up to 2,000 postal workers at seven sorting offices in England are set to strike on Friday of this week against the closures of their mail centres.
Management at Scotland’s Herald group of newspapers have told workers that all staff will be made redundant and told to reapply for their jobs – but there will be around 30 fewer positions available.
Kim Howells, the former foreign office minster responsible for Afghanistan, has described the occupation of the country as corrupt "from top to bottom".
A strike by around 50 teachers at the Royal Docks School in Newham, east London, closed down the school on Wednesday of last week. The teachers, members of the NUT union, were striking over plans to shut the school and reopen it as an academy.
