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The UCU lecturers’ union was set to meet management at Chesterfield College on Wednesday of this week.

Teachers at Downhills Primary School in Haringey will find out the result of a strike ballot on Monday of next week. A yes vote could see the NUT union members strike on 22 May.

Teachers in Scotland will begin a work to rule in protest at the government’s attacks on public sector pensions.

Over 300 school workers, parents, residents and students lobbied governors arriving for a meeting at the Muslim Girls School in Bolton to discuss moving towards academy status.

Sunderland College lecturers are balloting for strikes over pay. College bosses want to snatch £10,000 from some lecturers by reclassifying them as "associate teachers".

Chesterfield College lecturers have voted for strikes to defend jobs and pay.

Workers at Salford University held an impromptu protest against job cuts on Tuesday of last week.

Dockers in Essex struck for the first time in 23 years on Monday this week.

Teachers in the NUT union struck alongside Unison union members at Central Foundation Girls School in Tower Hamlets, east London, on Wednesday of last week.

The NUT union has suspended a planned strike in schools across Nottingham.

There is a real prospect of the NUT teachers’ union joining other unions for a national pensions strike in late June. That was the unanimous view of members at a national meeting of the Socialist Teachers Alliance (STA) in London last Saturday.

Some 91 percent of workers at London Metropolitan University say they have no confidence in their vice chancellor Malcolm Gillies.