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Mental health workers in Manchester reacted with fury to the decision of their NHS trust to uphold the sacking of leading union activist Karen Reissmann.

A strike by civil service workers in the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) brought job centres, benefit offices, the Child Support Agency and call centres to a halt on Thursday, the first day of a two-day strike.

Around 50 students representing university and student groups from around England and Wales attended the Student Respect conference last Sunday.

Preston Respect members were central to organising a successful meeting of Preston Fighting Unions last week.

Liverpool’s rubbish strike Refuse workers in Liverpool who work for the Veolia company have voted to strike.

Traffic wardens and support staff at NCP in Brighton & Hove voted against management’s Scrooge-like decision to cancel their Christmas bonus and party.

Workers at BAA’s seven airports including Heathrow, Gatwick and Glasgow are balloting for strike action in opposition to the company’s plans to close the final average salary pension scheme to new starters.

Up to 10,000 workers in the NUJ, Bectu and Unite unions at the BBC are balloting for strike action against devastating compulsory redundancies. The ballot closes in the second week of January.

This week saw the launch of the "our colleges, our communities, our union" campaign in the UCU lecturers union, to fight for decent pay for further and adult education lecturers in preparation of a ballot for industrial action.

Around 300 parents, teachers and trade unionists demonstrated on Saturday of last week in Manchester against the academies programme.

Teachers in the NUT union are likely to ballot for action over pay in January, and not December, as originally planned.

Some 50 workers from the Cadbury plant in Keynsham, Somerset, travelled to the Bourneville plant in Birmingham on Monday. They protested at plans to close the plant and move the work to Poland. Some 200 jobs are also threatened at Bourneville.