The two biggest rail unions in Britain—the RMT and TSSA—last week announced that they would be taking part in formal talks that could lead to a merger.
Hundreds of people packed into a primary school in Mumbles, Swansea to stop the closure of the Swansea Coastguard Centre. The meeting agreed that mass action was key to winning.
A planned strike by PCS union members at the Steria firm on Monday and Tuesday of this week was called off after management made an improved pay offer.
Several months ago Right to Work initiated marches on the Tory party conference in Manchester on 2 October and the Lib Dem conference in Birmingham on 18 September.