Around 300 engineering service workers were set to strike for two weeks from Wednesday of this week.
Waiters and their supporters protested outside a Pizza Express and the Marriott hotel in central London on Thursday of last week.
The RMT and TSSA unions suspended industrial action set for Monday and Tuesday of this week at Network Rail after bosses made a new offer.
Tube workers’ unions have declared an official dispute with London Underground.
Workers at the Scottish state-owned ferry operator CalMac began balloting for industrial action on Wednesday of last week.
Fast food giant McDonald’s was forced to close part of its headquarters in Chicago on Wednesday of last week.
An all-out walkout by homelessness workers in Glasgow has entered its ninth week—and has got council leaders running scared, reports Raymie Kiernan
Refuse lorry drivers in Barking and Dagenham, east London, completed a 13-day strike on Monday of this week.
Barnet Council workers in north London were set to strike for 48 hours from Monday of next week against privatisation of services.
Trade unionists with the Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners (LGSM) banner led a vibrant parade at a 70,000-strong Birmingham Pride festival last Saturday.
David Cameron’s former spin doctor Andy Coulson knew that voicemails on murdered teenager Milly Dowler’s phone had been intercepted, a court heard last week.
The Tories are seeking new powers to make life harder for immigrants, writes Ken Olende
