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Ross Wilkie has worked with people with disabilities for over 20 years. He was on the picket line in front of the Carlton Day Centre, which is set to be closed, sold, and replaced with a three-story commercial building.

Day centre workers in Glasgow have entered their second week of all-out indefinite action over a job regrading process.

Some 220 day centre workers in Glasgow began an indefinite strike on Tuesday of this week.

Across the country a series of unofficial walkouts have hit Royal Mail. Post workers in Liverpool, Glasgow, East London and Streatham have all taken unofficial action on Wednesday morning as the latest official strikes came to an end.

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Over 2,000 Unison union members who work for Birmingham council have attended mass meetings to discuss the imminent imposition of new contracts.

The family of Mohammed Atif Siddique – known as Atif – wept as the 21 year old student was found guilty of several counts of terrorism in the high court in Glasgow last week.

Adult daycare staff in Glasgow are balloting to take strike action as the centres they work in face closure.

Workers in six day centres for disabled people in Glasgow are balloting for an indefinite strike.

The disaster at the Stockline plastics factory in Glasgow on 11 May 2004, which killed nine workers and injured 40, was caused by years of neglect by the company that ran it and by the government watchdog meant to regulate it, according to a report published this week.

The campaign to save the Crichton campus of Glasgow university, which is based in Dumfries, has been a success. This is thanks to the protests of the students, unions, staff and a large local campaign.

Three weeks of indefinite strike action by 600 social care workers in the Unison union in Glasgow have won concessions over regrading from the New Labour-run council.