Ballots to decide the fate of council housing are set to take place in six local authorities across Wales in the coming months.
Extraordinary figures released last week showed the scale of plunder by Britain’s top bosses.
On next Saturday and Sunday George Galloway MP will broadcast a Middle East special of his Talksport radio phone in show from bombed out Beirut.
About 270 car workers at Dura Automotive Systems in Llanelli, South Wales, are on indefinite strike to get decent redundancy money when they lose their jobs.
"We should have stayed out longer. Who knows what we could have won by next week?"
The result was due this week from an important strike ballot over transfers of work without agreement. Although it covers only just over 1,000 people, their action could halt the entire Royal Mail operation in Britain.
Some 500 Post Office staff across 34 offices in Greater Manchester and South West Wales are being balloted for strikes over the franchising out of Crown office services to WH Smith.
An important meeting of PSC civil service workers’ union branch representatives took place in Leeds on Friday of last week.
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) announced last week that between 250 and 350 jobs will go by 2008.
Oxfordshire Postal workers in Carterton and Witney are to strike on 24, 25 and 29 August following an overwhelming vote for action over management bullying. Carterton voted 25 to one for a strike and Witney voted 55 to seven.
Around 7,000 protesters took to the streets of Edinburgh last Saturday to show their anger at the Israeli assault on Lebanon.
Domestics at South Tyneside NHS foundation trust completed a six-day strike on Tuesday of this week. They are now considering indefinite action.
