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Around 240 workers struck for better wages at eight RAF bases on Thursday of last week. They are members of the Unite and GMB unions employed by ISS to provide food and cleaning services.

Around 50 workers at VIP Polymers in Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire were set to strike on Wednesday of this week. They are members of the GMB union who make rubber seals.

The GMB union could call strikes in several Sheffield schools over threats to sack support workers. The council issued 58 redundancy notices at 19 schools, and wants to downgrade staff at seven more.

Cityclean Refuse workers in the GMB union have suspended strikes for 28 days to ballot on a new offer.

Around 670 construction workers downed tools unofficially at Runcorn Thermal Power Station on Friday of last week.

Some 300 bin workers in Brighton have joined a seven-day strike to stop an assault on their pay. 

Today some 300 Brighton bin workers employed by Cityclean started a week long strike against a pay assault led by Green Party Council leader Jason Kitcat and council chief executive Penny Thompson.

Brighton and Hove refuse workers have announced a week long strike over pay and conditions.

Some 80,000 new homes could be built in Britain - if half the money spent on housing benefit was spent on social housing, according to the GMB union. It found that £23 billion was spent on housing benefit in 2011/12. Much of this goes to the pockets of private landlords who have hiked up rents.

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Teachers at Uplands Junior School in Leicester struck on Tuesday of last week over job cuts. Eight teaching assistants could lose their jobs.

Teachers at Copland Community School in Wembley, north west London, were set to strike on Thursday of this week.