Defence Support Group (DSG) workers walked out on lunchtime protests at sites including Donnington, Catterick, Ashchurch and Bovington on Thursday of last week.
Workers at Tyneside Safety Glass achieved a breakthrough in their dispute over pay on Friday of last week after three weeks on strike.
Syrian president Bashar al-Assad boasted that the West needs to ally with him, claiming that only his regime can beat the Islamist group Isis, now renamed the Islamic State.
Freedom Ride activists and supporters were set to march through Barnsley on Saturday of this week. They are demanding that south Yorkshire councils reinstate free travel for older people.
London Underground (LU) power control room operators (PCROs) have narrowly voted to accept a deal and end their two-week strike.
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Strikers at Lambeth College have returned to work. The UCU union members had been on indefinite strike since 3 June at the south London college against hated new contracts.
Local government workers in Scotland have voted by 65 percent to reject the imposition of a 1 percent pay rise in a consultative ballot by the Unison union.
Strikes could shut publicly owned sports facilities, museums and libraries in Glasgow just two days before the opening ceremony of the Commonwealth Games.
Electricians in the Unite union struck on Friday of last week and Monday of this week at Hackney Homes against the use of targets to dock their pay.
The government was blasted this week as the judge appointed to lead a child sex abuse inquiry quit less than a week into the job.
UCU union members struck at King’s College London on Thursday of last week.
