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Glasgow social workers unofficial walkout spread across the whole of the city council's Homeless Service to win reinstatement of of suspended colleague

Social workers in Glasgow have taken unofficial action and won.

Social Workers across Glasgow are on unofficial strike. They held a 60-strong union meeting on Monday of this week and voted unanimously to join colleagues who walked out on Friday of last week. And the dispute is spreading.

Politicians in all three parties are struggling under fire to contain the opposition to the bedroom tax.

A senior United Nations (UN) official has said the Tories’ bedroom tax must be “suspended immediately”.

Campaigners in Viewpark, Uddingston, scored a massive victory against the bedroom tax yesterday, forcing North Lanarkshire council to back off from threats to evict tenants.

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The Guardian newspaper ran an article on the Labour leader of Leeds City Council Keith Wakefield last week. It told a story of how he has stood up for benefit claimants.

More than 100 people from across Greater Manchester came to the city centre last Saturday to launch a regional federation against the bedroom tax.

Tenants and supporters were set to protest against the bedroom tax around England on Saturday of this week.

Workers at housing association One Housing Group were set to strike from Wednesday to Friday of this week.