Refuse lorry drivers in Barking and Dagenham, east London, were set to strike for 13 days from Wednesday of this week.
The all-out strike at Labour-run Glasgow City Council by homelessness caseworkers entered its seventh week on Tuesday of this week.
Around 200 people rallied in central Manchester last Saturday in solidarity with homeless people and supporters camped out in the town square.
Workers at Tory-run Bromley Council in south London are resisting a vicious programme of cuts and privatisation that could cut the council workforce from 4,000 to 300.
Short reports from the week covering union strike ballots at Network Rail, Scottish Power, ITV, BBC, offshore workers and cleaners, plus opposing the Nazis in Dudley
Workers at City and Islington College were set to strike on Thursday of this week. They are fighting threatened job losses resulting from cuts to adult education.
The Tories wasted no time in gearing up for new attacks on the working class after their shock general election victory last week.
The firefighters’ FBU union biennial conference had just begun as Socialist Worker went to press.
Workers at Tata Steel plants around Britain are set to vote on strikes to defend their pensions. The biggest union, Community, began a two-week ballot on Wednesday of last week with the Unite and GMB unions following soon after.
Dozens of activists were on the streets of Tower Hamlets last Saturday to launch the campaign to elect Rabina Khan as Tower Hamlets mayor.
The coroner at the inquest into the death of Kingsley Burrell has questioned the recollection of an officer involved in his arrest and restraint.
Around 50 campaigners held a silent protest inside Heathrow airport’s Terminal 5 on Sunday of last week.
