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Protesters occupied Sedgemoor Splash swimming pool in Bridgwater, Somerset at 3pm today. They are demanding that the Tory-run council reverses plans to close the pool.

Lecturers formed mass pickets outside Tower Hamlets college in east London today, on the first day of an all-out, indefinite strike.

Blackheath in South London is the venue for Climate Camp 2009. Activists gathered at "swoop spots" all over London today in preparation for Climate Camp 2009. They were waiting for a text message to tell them where the camp was to be sited so activists could create a coordinated action.

Lecturers at Manchester College are set to strike on Thursday of this week in an escalation of their dispute over job cuts.

The RMT transport union is claiming "victory" over job security on London Underground after a 48-hour strike by thousands of workers in June.

Wind turbine firm Vestas – which was at the centre of a two-week occupation after closing and sacking all its 600 staff – wants to sponsor city academies.

A series of disputes in the fire service over attacks on jobs, pay and conditions will see around 8,000 firefighters in England – almost one in five across the country – taking industrial action this week.

Workers on all out strike at a gas terminal in Barrow are refusing to back down over their pay dispute.

Cleaners on Eurostar trains began a ballot for strike action this week over attacks on their pay, conditions and their RMT union rep.

Around 400 bus drivers at Go North East’s depots in Deptford in Sunderland and Washington held a one day strike on Monday.

Drivers employed by First Bus in Chester struck on Friday of last week over pay.

More than 400 bus workers at First Aberdeen struck on Tuesday and Friday of last week. They are in the frontline of the fight against First’s national pay freeze for bus workers.