Civil service workers in the PCS union plan to walk out on Wednesday of next week to demand a pay rise.
Ukip won a council seat in South Tyneside last week. Norman Dennis was elected in Westoe ward with a majority of 51 over Labour.
Next week’s health strike can be an outlet for wider anger at the Tories’ attacks, says Tomáš Tengely-Evans
More than 2,000 people marched through London in the driving rain today, Saturday, against the bombing of Iraq.
The superintendent in charge of Liverpool football fans at Hillsborough has admitted that police contributed to the 1989 disaster.
More than 1,500 people protested outside the Chinese Embassy in central London yesterday, Wednesday, as part of a day of global solidarity with the Occupy Central movement in Hong Kong. Another 500 protested in Manchester.
The Unite union last week signed a union recognition agreement with haulage firm Wincanton.
Doncaster Care UK workers launched a fresh three-week strike on Monday of this week.
Parking attendants in Wandsworth, south west London, have voted by 92 percent to strike over pay.
Two days of strikes by refuse and recycling drivers in Brighton and Hove were suspended last week for talks.
Some 30 Barnsley Freedom Riders protested outside a Barnsley Labour council meeting on Thursday of last week. They demanded the council reinstate free train travel for older people, which it cut from April.
The Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition (TUSC) is standing a candidate in a council by-election in Haringey, north London.
