Respect has launched an emergency £20,000 general election fundraising drive in preparation for an early poll.
Campaigners against gun and knife crime in Tottenham, north London, are gearing up for a protest march on Sunday of next week.
Management at Manchester mental health trust this week moved closer to disciplining, and possibly even sacking, leading health trade unionist Karen Reissmann.
Over 3,000 classroom assistants took strike action across Northern Ireland on Wednesday of last week to stop attacks on their pay and conditions.
Every one of the 800,000 Unison union members in local government who are due to be balloted from next week should vote for strikes to stop pay cuts and attacks on conditions.
The government has stepped in to attempt to resolve the continuing chaos over the single status pay agreement.
Over 2,000 Unison union members who work for Birmingham council have attended mass meetings to discuss the imminent imposition of new contracts.
In response to the coordinated union campaign against the closure of Remploy factories for disabled workers, minister Peter Hain has claimed there is a "good future" for the factories.
Up to 12,000 bus workers at four different companies in London are currently moving towards industrial action to win better pay.
Over 250,000 members of the PCS civil service workers' union are taking part in a consultative ballot to decide the next step in their dispute over job cuts, low pay and privatisation.
Tube drivers on the Circle, Hammersmith and City and District lines on the London Underground last week showed how workers have the power to put safety over managers' wishes.
A special pay conference for members of the UCU lecturers' union in further education colleges is set to take place this Saturday, which will discuss whether to reject a below inflation pay offer.
