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Up to 20,000 people marched last Saturday to save services at the Vale of Leven hospital in West Dunbartonshire, Scotland. There is a widespread feeling that the "substantial downgrading" that is expected to result from a pending report will put people’s lives at risk.

Two of the Health and Safety Executive’s (HSE) four Scottish offices are earmarked for closure, with others also under threat.

School students from across Scotland are stepping up their campaign to end army recruitment in schools.

Journalists at Scotland’s Herald, Sunday Herald and Glasgow Evening Times newspapers won a victory on Friday of last week. Management have backed down on the threat of compulsory redundancies and agreed to negotiate with the union.

Post workers in Glasgow and the west of Scotland have voted to end their unofficial action and return to work. More than 700 postal workers attended a two hour mass meeting in Glasgow. They debated the way forward for their dispute as well as putting questions to CWU union officials and voting at the end of the meeting by a proportion of around five to two to return to work. No agreement has been reached with management about the terms of returning to work.

Hundreds of angry post workers walked out of their delivery offices in Glasgow unofficially as a protest against bullying management today.

The dispute at Scotland’s Herald, Sunday Herald and Evening Times newspapers took a nasty turn last week when management suspended union rep Gordon Thomson.

A strike by 400 signallers and supervisors working for Network Rail in Scotland scheduled for Friday has been called off by the RMT after the company tabled a further revised offer on disputed bonus payments.

Ayr At the Ayr post office in south-west Scotland there was a good turnout on the picket line. More people signed up for picket duty than last time. Everyone was furious at the news that the bosses will be getting £370,000 and managers up to £10,000 in bonuses for "meeting targets".

The Scotland United Against Terror rally held in Glasgow last Saturday was called by a coalition of Muslim organisations.

Signallers in Scotland and maintenance workers in Cumbria were set to strike on Friday this week. The Scottish signallers had been denied a bonus for striking to defend an agreement over working hours that the company had reneged on.

Dundee There were around 30 pickets at the Dundee West depot. At the Dundee East depot, the only people in the depot were four managers and cleaner.