NHS staff staged a second unofficial walkout on Tuesday of last week at Morriston, Swansea’s busiest hospital, over "horrible" working conditions.
Refuse workers in Islington, north London, are balloting for strike action over changes to recycling and collection rounds.
Workers in six day centres for disabled people in Glasgow are balloting for an indefinite strike.
The student Stop the War conference last weekend saw over 100 students from more than 25 universities attend the meeting at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London.
Around 200 bus drivers from the Stagecoach depot in Chesterfield held a strike and demonstration on Friday of last week. The action was over pay and was jointly organised by the Unite and RMT unions.
Royal Mail bosses who slashed overtime payments to postal delivery workers, saying that the extra work could be done in far fewer hours than claimed by the CWU union, are now having to do the overtime themselves.
With the publication of the government’s Respect Action Plan in early 2006, the then prime minister Tony Blair reaffirmed that his government was to "bear down uncompromisingly on anti-social behaviour".
George Bush is trying to sell his "surge" of US troops in Iraq as a success. General David Petraeus, the US commander tasked with assessing the occupation, this week painted a glowing picture of the situation to the US Congress’s house committee on foreign affairs.
"If they want to make pay cuts – they should start at the top!"
Delegations of Unison union members from across Britain helped to form a confident and determined 500-strong march through Manchester city centre last Sunday.
Up to 20,000 people marched last Saturday to save services at the Vale of Leven hospital in West Dunbartonshire, Scotland. There is a widespread feeling that the "substantial downgrading" that is expected to result from a pending report will put people’s lives at risk.
